General Discussion & Chat: Coffee and...Part 25...! :-D, 1 by meezersfive

meezersfive wrote:
I don't know about you all, Mary gets me exhausted just reciting her daily chores, and Sarv makes me want to head for the donuts!! LOL
Mary has chosen an excellent diet,and I'm sure that helps her to maintain her schedule and keep her energy up. I kind of fall in the middle, stay away from processed foods for the most part, whole grains, lots of fruit (helps with that pipe condition Sarv mentioned), but I do have a sweet tooth. I've been buying bottled water which is ridiculously priced, but I find that if I have it at hand, I drink much more water, which is good for your "pipes" as well as ridding your body of toxins.

I take glucosamine-chondroitin too, plus vitamin E, CQ10, folic acid, and the daily heart regimin aspirin, along with my cholesterol and high blood pressure meds. The pharmaceutical industry would fall into bankruptcy if not for me! The glucosamine has helped my knees a lot.

I can still put in a pretty full day, but I do drag my little garden bench out if I'm going to do a lot of weeding. Prevents the "I can't get up syndrome" after being on my knees in the garden! Bending over is hard on my back so I can't do that for more than a couple of hours. I think overall, I'm not in bad shape for pushing 70, but I certainly could stand to lose more than those measly five pounds.

Remember that hutch I picked up?? Today I'm stripping that little table that was standing next to it in the photo, so I can try to match the finish. I'm good on the stripping part, the matching the finish may be more of a challenge. Too bad the legs aren't a better match but you can't have everything. Keep you posted as I trudge along.

Molly, I missed answering you about the lilies. I got four from you but hesitated to get more from others, because of this miserable drought, fearing they wouldn't survive. I'll probably try again in spring. I plan to give these a good layer of mulch after frost. Hope we get snow this year, last year was tough on perennials with no snow cover to keep their little feets warm through winter.

Out to the garage, get out the gloves and chemicals, more later!!!