What have you ordered for spring 2009 part 4

Over 70 you learn not to play volleyball. wisdom with age.

I try to eat healthily so I can enjoy all my home-made goodies!

I am told my metabolism will eventually catch up to me .... though it never caught up to father. Two words ..... String Bean. I remember in college being just as frustrated at trying to gain weight as my co-workers were at losing it.

Breakfast was oatmeal and a big old chunk of Blueberry Gingerbread. Oh ... and coffee, of course!

iris - we do have one guy who is mid-sixties that "plays" as long as the ball is hit to him. hope i'm doing the same at his age!

willie people like you i am jealous of - my gene pool is different - there are seven of us carrying the same genes - my fathers sister married my mothers brother - three in my family and four cousins - we are all big boned - i'm am the fittest of the bunch - still with our body types (linebackers) you don't notice a pound or five because it gets spread out over the entire body - when you do notice it its a lot of work to get it off

The hip replacement is a miracle I had both hips done and was driving my car to the 4 week post surgery apointment.
Arthriscopic method. Short recovery period. I recomend it.
I am not a fan of fast food, try to eat healthy.
I really am enjoying the 70's and refuse to give up.
There is pride in working out gardening chalanges.
I just dont have every feature I want, like a pond.Huge arbors and free standing trellises.
Love the ones I see here but too much maintenence for me.

I love to play volleyball. Shelly and I could take on you guys. We're both about the same size. However, I do not dive for any balls. My daughter-in-law took over my place on the team, cuz I hurt myself onetoomanytimes. So, maybe, Shelly could take on you guys and I'll cheer her on. LOL
I would love to go to the Philly show next week. It's that time already, but if I go, then that would mean less money for plants, but ontheotherhand, I could get ideas.

Yep, big bones has done well by me too.
I have always been amazon like and athletic without doing sports.
wha it IS a lot to work off and the older you get the harder it is, better to just watch what you eat and not let things get too far beyond controle.

I like the way you worded it, Bill. Big-boned - that's me! My brothers who are both 6'4 or 5 are slighter in build. String bean fits them also. I'm more like my dad.

"amazon like" my mind wanders :)

it was the ice storm that did me in - working all day long cleaning up, no "real" work because we were on shut down, a fresh batch of premium ale waiting inside - not to mention the holiday meals - perfect storm - a couple more weeks and i'll be fine

well jan just stating fact - 46 long coat size since i was in college - and i would be willing to take shelly and your dil on two on two - i can still touch the b-ball rim - a warning that i trash talk :)

Well, my mother is just the opposite .... she is ..... how shall we prose ..... pleasingly plump?

I am convinced that the health care industry is in cahoots with the food industry ..... "You sell them crap, so they get sick for us!!!!" I hope I am wrong!

Anyone remember T.O.B.A.L????

Same with me, Willie - always trying to gain weight.

I'm still wearing the same jeans I had in college (though, not the 29 inch waist ones, anymore)

Not too shabby for someone 6'1 / 170#
(almost 8% bf ... used to be 3%, which comes to 13.6 gained pounds).

I am just starting to look like I won't blow away in the next strong breeze.

Now, the challenge is to keep it that way!

Victor, I'll start sending you baked goods to help you along!

'A man is only as old as the woman he feels' - Groucho.

Really only 8%, Willie?!

I have had tendinitus in my shoulders since my late 20s. My brother & aunt had bursitis, same thing, different place. So I guess we had that gene. dh gets sore, but can't put on weight unless he is working--at least that was what used to happen. He was expanding a bit, but after eating my diabetic type diet, necessary with supplements for him, he came back down & into his sport jackets again. I have gained a bit of weight back this winter since I'm not weeding, should lose it again when the ground thaws.

There are a lot of runners around here who I wish would wear lighter or reflective clothes in the evening. Someone is going to get hit by a car & I hope it's not ours. Street lights are not close together on semi-rural roads.

Very good safety point irisMA. I always wear sparkly reflectors when I dance outside at night.

Plenty sparkle?

I use reflective body paint.

Add body paint to spring order.

in europe at a fotokina trade show the booth next to us had a couple models being body painted - i offered to help

I would have offered to help remove it after the show.

the phrase i thought of was "be the brush"

Be the turpentine!

turpentine .... hahaha

yes, I am up to 8% bf. 30 x 34 Levis .... 501s only, please!

But, only because I am now (for the past 4 years) more behind the desk with computer work, than in the yard and working it off.

I used to be able to ride my bicycle to work, but now I simply stair climb right out of bed!

Now that the business is more smoothly flowing, I think can resume my hyper-activies this spring.

rather be the brush

Removal involves much more rubbing.

i forgot to mention that several coats are required

No - no clothes!

wha which school: pointalism? abstract? I favour surrealism myself.

i'm very flexible!!

dnut your brave to step in here :)

on a gardening note i'm browsing through the bluestone catalog - are they realiable?

Fuel for the fire dear wha. Fuel for the fire. Besides as a surrealist I can also melt myself away.

This message was edited Feb 24, 2009 1:52 PM

melting yourself away is a good skill for a canuck

Not a Bluestone fan, Bill.

thx - i think i ordered from them years ago - i checked their WD rating and saw some of our ne folks who posted positives - just window shopping right now and would rather find seeds for some of what i'm looking for - catalog has nice pic's

If you have patience for teeny plants and don't mind returning the failures and don't mind the ridiculous packing peanuts and...

patience is not one of my virtues

Do the Tango Impatience

I have issues with packing peanuts :(

After all that fitness talk---I didn't have time to walk today---went to my rheumatologist yesterday---didn't much like what he had to say---have to stick with meds, or lose my mobility---told him I didn't like housework anyway.

Do they cause salmonella, too?

I'm really chuckling here. Too funny.

I did well with Bluestone, but they ARE small to start. Only had a few not do well, but they did replace w/o a problem. That was several years ago, before I joined DG.