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Key West itself is a little crazy. Good for restaurants, bars and people watching but very busy. We like staying outside and only going in for day trips a couple of times.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I love your plans for Brazil!
No surprise at the senioritis. I had it too. I was always fairly outspoken at work, but became more so speaking somewhat less politically about where things needed to change. Not sure they cared though...
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Now that is a great idea! Those large lithium batteries make me nervous - does not seem good for the environment in the long run.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
My Dad used to climb into the rafters of grain barns on Lake Superior's harbor in Duluth and net pigeons for his family to eat. My nephew supplements his family's groceries with venison and fish. He's a very talented fisherman. I am a city girl now and lost my taste for wild game and lake fish.(Except white fish out of Lake Superior, it's like ocean fish).
We used to play with chicken feet after butchering chickens. You can locate a tendon in the chopped off part of the foot, and when you pull it, it makes the chicken foot contract into a scary claw. All things considered, I think squirrel tails are a more pleasing aesthetic.
Yes, I have eaten squirrel, rabbit, deer, bear, quail, grouse, duck, goose and even kangaroo (along with all the "normal" meats like beef, pork and chicken!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
p.s. We ate squirrel and rabbits shot by my grandpa when we visited. You had to watch out for buckshot. We played with the squirrel tails. Ate the fish he caught. ds
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Well ****
Just lost my post which contained an absolutely brilliant summary of my opinions on art. I was a studio art major in college and took a lot of art history as well. When I went to law school I was advised by faculty not to put my undergrad major on my resume. It worked out. I have expansive views about what is art and it is indeed in the eye of the beholder. I like all types and see value in all kinds of things. I agree on the Gertrude Stein type of arrangement. Each piece should stand on its own and not just be a component in a decorator arrangement. The more the better.
Being in a gallery and studio there are lots of discussions. I get impatient with the art snob types who have distain for ceramics or fabric art and such. It's all good. I think art history IS history and political history should be taught blended with art and social history. So there.
DD hope you can take more art history. It's so fun. And Ann love the idea of you living in attic with microwave. Pretend it's a garret in Paris.
Not much here. Did my waddling at the gym listening to my favorite music - Motown. Almost masked the sound of grunts and weight drops.
Deli sandwich tonight. One sandwich is plenty for both of us. DH got the dogs walked.
Liz we are Key West dreaming.
Cheers all. Better post this before it disintegrates. Diane S
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That is the plan for January 2026. I lived there as an exchange student when I was 18, and have kept in contact with my host family and friends, and visited a few times. I love them and Brazil so much, and now DH does too. I am ecstatic that this is a very, very real possibility. I just applied for a Delta Credit card to get the 70,000 points. That won't quite cover the ticket, but it will get me a good part of the way.
Yes, apply for your passports NOW. You never know when a good deal will show up. When AerLingus started flying out of Minneapolis they had incredible deals to Dublin, but wawa, work. :( Delta opened a direct route to Mexico City a few years ago, and we jumped on that: $250 round trip!!! Typically $500-700. Or cruises, if you can be flexible like retired people often can, you can get great fire sale deals, but you're going to need a passport :)
Thanks, DD and Paula, for taking the art conversation a little further. I appreciate learning more about your approaches to finding and enjoying beautiful expressions of this thing we call life. It's a universal human instinct, I think, to value beauty so highly, however we define it.
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
I definitely have an appreciation for art but have very little "real" art in our home. I remember going to a local art fair in my 20's and falling in love with a tree sculpted out of brass. It was a bit over $200 which was A Lot of money for me at the time. I found a way to scrounge up the money and purchased it. It found a place in every apartment and home I ever lived in and now has a home in DS2's apartment. He has great sense of design and has a very eclectic art display! A patient once made me a very cool vase and DS2 will take ownership of that too. I bought a very nice piece of pottery at an art fair in Sarasota last year with the plan to decorate our new FL residence with it. I've decided to make a beach/tropical nook in our bedroom since we are staying in WI. Just ordered shells and starfish to fill the pottery bowl and ordered coral and bigger shells to sit on shelves.
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
