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we did a ride this morning because it was so nice out. had a few errands to do first so we did those and parked at the opposite end of the ride so did it reverse of our usual. weird how it all looks different that way. ended up taking us longer than usual but the ride was a little longer...

shannon I do the same with planks. so far my shoulders are ok but I try to save wrists for riding. I do more ab work than anything else. I need to be careful with low back twisting, so I do plenty of abs but try to keep things "straight". we need to fence our garden or the deer would...

josie used to do century rides and long rides to generate funds for AIDS. my legs could do 100 miles but my wrists, hands and butt cant!. I used to ride longer rides but at most once a week. now we ride 2-3 times a week but usually 15 miles so it adds up to as much or more mileage...

DH and I did the bike repair. he's better at it. often you need another pair of hands to get and hold things in place so thats my job. the more you ride x 2 bikes , the more things go wrong. we're good at fixing basic things. bike shops get backed up with simple repairs when weather is...

We are not dedicated lawn people. we have a lot of space and need something to walk on that isnt total weeds, so grass it is. the darn stuff spreads into all the places you dont really want it to. we have a lot of plants to keep the ground covered or it would be a million dandelions or...

garden jobs were not glamorous but I cleaned out a bed I'd started working on that had grass growing up all over. got it done. grass grows poorly in the lawn but goes crazy in the flower beds. I only spent maybe 2 hours crawling in the dirt, all day is a killer workout. maybe lower key...

cathy I must have misread. I thought you said the other way around on what was faster. we have an abundance of people doing cataracts here. wait times are short. hospital admits are always such a BFD ( having done it several times in the last few years) i would think the clinic would be...

cathy ( everyone) clinics have SurgiCenters for cataracts. WAY less complicated than a hospital. a hospital takes hours to check in and get prepped. a surgicenter is fast and efficient. patients are lined up ready to go. Use someone who does a lot of these procedures. the...

I got enough sleep last night so feel a lot better. i cant shrug it off well if I dont sleep. did therapy work anyway yesterday. today I walked the yard for 35 minutes and did some therapy work and curls and pushups. we tried new meds on the kitty today and it looks like a combo of...

I dont understand how they quantitate impairment in vision. before insurance will pay, it has to be a certain level. I qualified but any cloudiness I had wasn't very noticeable. after the surgery I had saw no difference in colors, brightness. Ive been told by friends it was "night and...

I used to be more nearsighted but that self corrected with age. I never could stand glasses. i switched to contacts but actually never wore the glasses. i never got over the sensation of standing on a stair so the ground was not where it looked like thru the glasses. i used them sitting and...

Shannon that's what I meant about my close vision. without contacts, I could read the tiniest of print easily. my long distance was not perfect but not bad. maybe 20/40. they can do a sort of "monovision" correction where one eye is corrected for distance and the other for close and...

I did a 25 min spin, therapy work, and FUB yesterday. Shannon I dont know how old you are. probably not medicare yet. no vision difficulties when I scheduled surgery. cataracts showed on exams but I didnt notice anything. after the surgery, my distance vision was corrected but no...

I vaguely remember seeing the horse and buggy things and mackinac island being woodsy. not a lot of detail. expenses are typical of so many destination locations We rarely had vacation. neither parent had interests. father would "paint the house" . they didn't have a lot of extra...

cathy I got out a map since I was a kid then, and never drove in the area, to remind myself what area looks like. i dont remember if we did a horse drawn thing? my father was really cheap so probably not. usually we went to Door county. they were not great travelers. cars weren't reliable...

we did a load of gardening today. i am diminished in what i can do from even last year. general aches and pains I can walk ok but gardening takes the starch out of me quickly. I wear a back brace more often now as preventive and it helps some. riding is still ok. we are having a stretch...

We did a road ride this afternoon, our usual 15 mile one. 1 hr 15 minutes. still pretty cool when we went around noon but workable. partly sunny!. I feel so bad for those of you in the storm paths. sure seems like a rough year for it with more intense storms more often than usual...

there has been very little coverage of the Michigan ice storm here. i know what a mess they can be with trees, poles, lines falling and repairs very slow because driving anywhere is so impossible and awful with power out everywhere. we get along reasonably well during bad weather events...

Good you are ok Carolyn. those kind of days put me into unmanageable stress and anxiety.

Ended up doing what I planned yesterday. DH's knee is better so whatever he did is not "fatal" and just needs some time to heal. I have a f/up medical appt today. so will do something later. I hope everyone has gotten thru this episode of bad weather, if not with power at least...