OT October Chit Chat

[agate]

Good motto: Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

[stillstANNding]

Dar has this similar one:

So never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties. Each day has enough of its own troubles. (Matthew 6:34)

ANN

[nuthatch]

So proud of my son. He recently participated in a fundraiser for disadvantaged kids where he body boarded 100 waves in 4 hours.
Then last week he participated in the fundraiser against domestic violence called Walk a Mile in My Shoes. He walked a mile in women's heels! Mind you, this "kid" is 41, father of a 1 year old, and a 6'5" man! High heel Mary Janes with socks . . . what style!
Wish I could download the pic, but it's too big a file. He's pictured standing next to the San Diego district attorney. He's so tall, especially in heels, it makes her look like a child!*rofl

[Sunshine]

That’s terrific Nuthatch!

Funny how our culture renders women physically hampered by telling them over and over that wearing stilettos is the ultimate in femininity.

[Sunshine]

I think by back is finally good again. What a relief. MS and SPS are so much easier without back problems too.

[agate]

That’s terrific Nuthatch!

Funny how our culture renders women physically hampered by telling them over and over that wearing stilettos is the ultimate in femininity.

High heels are in the same category as corsets, IMO--fashions that just happen to be harmful. We're supposed to show how willing we are to package ourselves in the latest style so we can attract the men who will be willing to pick us up when we fall on those high heels or when we faint from lack of air while wearing those corsets.

Better yet--we attract a man who can afford a vehicle to take us everywhere so we don't need to walk, and if we faint in our corsets, there he'll be to revive us.

Corsets were out of style even in my childhood but my mother remembered them (and still had one lying around gathering dust). The tighter you could lace them up, the better.

[Sunshine]

Girdles were of the same ilk. I tried one once as a teen. That was enough to never do that again

[Virginia]

I certainly do not want to try to wear a girdle, and probably couldn't get it on anyway. But when I was healthy and young I loved my high heels. I always felt so dressed up in them. Always wore them to work.

Nuthatch, love that your son is so involved in such great causes. I know you are one proud Mother. He seems like he would just join right in with whatever is going on. I wish we could have gotten the pictures.

[Cat Dancer]

I've never worn heels. Or a girdle (I probably could have used one of them...could now..but ain't gonna start!). Or much make-up. And one of the first women in my college (in 1968) to wear pants. And the first in my office to come to work in a pantsuit (yeah, Hillary!). So I've always ben a rebel.

[Sunshine]

...still are!?

[Earth Mother 2 Angels]

((((((Hugs to All)))))) ~

Ever notice how men don’t wear tortuous attire? It seems the most annoying article of clothing for men is a tie. No girdles for men. They just let their bellies spill out over their belts. They also wear comfortable shoes.

They may comb their hair once or twice a day. If they don’t feel like shaving, they don’t shave. For days or forever. Beards seem to be in vogue for young men now. I’ve noticed many athletes (watching the World Series right now) with long beards. They look like they belong on a Smith’s Brothers cough drops box.

I traded my girdle for control top panty hose. One of the best things about leaving the professional world was being free of those restraints ~ and high heels. I wore 3-4 inch heels, while lifting and carrying my sons, lifting their wheelchairs into my tiny Corolla, taking them to their clinics, therapy, doctor’s appointments, etc. I’m now paying for that abuse of my back and hips all in the name of fashion.

When I look at the shoes women wear these days, the stilettos (stilts would be a better term), two thoughts cross my mind: 1) how do they keep their balance and walk, and 2) boy, will they regret that 20 years from now.

Today’s girdle is Spanx. Now, ladies can control their figures from top to knees. For vanity, they are risking their health:

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Evidently so did I, and many of us older women, when we wore girdles and control top panty hose.

As an old lady now, my motto is, “let it all hang out!”

Love & Light,

Rose

[Cherie]

My daughter has lost 8 chickens and her rooster in the past week leaving her with 5 hens, one of whom has a badly injured neck. She has had traps out (have a heart...not the clamp traps) and caught a possum yesterday and a fisher cat this morning around 5 am. The law here is that you may trap predatory beasts on your property but may not transport and release elsewhere. You may destroy said predators. Or you can take to a "hunter" who will euthanize the animal, harvest the pelt and send the head to the DEM. So Heather had a friend on the police force who has a neighbor who is a licensed "hunter" and fur trapper and she took the animal to him. He will return the trap tomorrow. In the meantime, she is keeping the three remaining traps baited and on the ready for any more who might be around. She still thinks there may be a fox getting into the coop.

[Virginia]

Does she live in the country?

[Cherie]

Does she live in the country?

On the edge of the URI campus. It is rural (tiny village of about 500 residents 0.4 miles away and the University another half mile beyond that. There is 2 acres of land on which the house sits and most of it is wooded or swampy.

[Sunshine]

We had raccoons in our coop. We lay down hardware cloth under the coop so they couldn’t burrow into it and underneath it, coming up through the floor. And hardware cloth on the windows. It solved that problem.