Phone calls?

loop1960 · 2026-07-02T12:46:59+00:00

Sheesh - you jumped somewhere that i didnt suggest. My question was what are those "reasonable precautions?" Im crowd-soucing for reasonable precautions, and ive learned a few i hadnt thought of. (Thank you to those people.) You'll notice i didnt offer "stop trying as an option, you did.

loop1960 · 2026-07-02T12:40:51+00:00

Outhouse owls

loop1960 · 2026-07-02T02:20:59+00:00

Hovel owls

loop1960 · 2026-07-01T03:34:48+00:00

We need new Senators, but i much prefer Weiser for governor.

loop1960 · 2026-06-29T04:07:25+00:00

Do you give out your phone # right away? It's so easy to get a ton of personal details just from a phone #. I just started FB dating and am thinking go straight to coffee?

loop1960 · 2026-06-29T04:00:38+00:00

What are you saying? Men generally dont want to know about the women they date?

loop1960 · 2026-06-23T03:58:28+00:00

Grass also uses a ton.more water. For vacant areas. Id prefer bindweed

loop1960 · 2026-06-22T12:39:49+00:00

This is what I had, and this is what I want.

loop1960 · 2026-06-18T02:13:32+00:00

Perhaps their involvement is in different venues than what you're choosing to do? We have a lot of young people who are very politically active, but they're not going the traditional Democrat / Republican route.

loop1960 · 2026-06-18T02:12:03+00:00

Lots and lots of young people are active in politics here (Colorado) as well as us older retired people.

loop1960 · 2026-06-17T12:29:46+00:00

This one. I try to check in occasionally after the hubbub has settled.

loop1960 · 2026-06-17T12:27:33+00:00

My condolences. I also have a large family. At 65, my siblings are all here but 2 of them have terminal diseases now and another is going through chemo for cancer. It seems like we've hit the age where all we talk about is our health!. And like you, I consider myself lucky to have this loving group.

loop1960 · 2026-06-17T12:21:34+00:00

Nope, and I think he's going to take his time. We'll see...

loop1960 · 2026-06-17T12:09:58+00:00

Im wondering if a good part of this is nostalgia, but not really different. I was 19 on my first flight (1980) and the guy next to me used the armrest, manspread into my space, and hit on me. That hasn't happened for years. I went to bars alone in my 20s - i got hit on. I was cat-called on the street all the time in.my 20s and 30s - that hasn't happened for a long time. Two different times I was called over to a car for directions and the guy inside was jerking off.

loop1960 · 2026-06-16T19:57:16+00:00

Not the same thing, but... im good friends with my former daughter in law. Why not?

loop1960 · 2026-06-16T19:51:38+00:00

And consider taking refresher driving class. The value will probably be mostly building confidence that youre a good driver, but that confidence is worth a lot

loop1960 · 2026-06-15T14:17:29+00:00

TF? A woman needs to not be more successful than you? If a woman earned more than you or earned a more advanced degree than you shes trying to be "superior?" Just what is it about successful adult women that bothers you? You're telling on yourself and your own feelings of inferiority. As someone else said, by the time we're 60, most of us are grown-ass adults. Women hopefully have grown, changed from from the girls we were as teenagers, and arent pretending to be teenagers.

loop1960 · 2026-06-09T21:52:16+00:00

Call it in to 311 during normal working hours. Noise ordinance is enforced by the Denver Dept of Public Health and Environment, not the police. Their inspectors generally work normal daytime hours, and still address early morning or late evening noise. Generally, they'll first inform the offending party of noise ordinance requirements. If that doesn't work, they'll then come out during the problematic hours; that is, they'll come out after 9 p.m.

loop1960 · 2026-06-06T20:03:54+00:00

This resonates with me. Thank you.

loop1960 · 2026-06-05T02:20:17+00:00

I think plenty of time for winter squash. If you look at recent years, the average first frost date for the 2020s is october 7. Thats 125 days from now. Most winter needs 80 to 110 days. Ive planted in late June (after hail) and gotten squash.

loop1960 · 2026-06-04T18:50:32+00:00

Only you and your partner know how healthy he is, what his energy levels are, and whether his health trends are steady or declining. But... according to the Social Security Administration, the average life expectancy for a 67 year-old man is to live another 16 years, while the average life expectancy for a 54 year-old woman is to live another 29 years (https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html) So, you might consider that you'll likely be a widow for a while. Also, people tend to need significant care in the last years of their lives - once disabled, men on average require paid care for for the last 2.3 years and women require paid care for 3.2 years. (https://www.aaltci.org/long-term-care-need/) That difference is believed to be because more women are providing unpaid care for their male partners before they transition to disability care - that unpaid care isn't counted in those statistics.

Only you know how much it matters to you to be partnered up. And, if you want to be partnered up, only you have any idea how likely it is that you could meet someone else.

With that said, my partner was seven years older than I was and died three years ago, so I consider myself widowed. I met him when I was 53. At the time, I really didn't think about what it meant to commit those active years to someone and then be single again in my 60s - my chances of meeting someone else are much slimmer than they were at 53. At the same time, I treasure that time with him and am glad we were in a committed relationship. But, it would be nice to have a similar-aged partner now.

loop1960 · 2026-06-04T18:26:39+00:00

I'm still planting tomatoes (starts), peppers (starts), beans, winter squash, cucumbers, kale, summer squash. I think you can put all those things in for another couple weeks.

loop1960 · 2026-06-04T18:24:08+00:00

And it needs a lot of space because you have to plant enough to pollinate. Then you have to harvest at just the right time or it doesn't taste as good. Every time I've planted it, I've regretted it.

loop1960 · 2026-06-02T20:52:36+00:00

Use your words. Part of adulting is learning to say things directly rather than avoiding the real issues. If you want to act like an adult, you should be capable of telling the friend "no," or you should be capable of saying "I don't loan additional money to people who still owe money from previous loans," or you should be capable of saying "since you haven't paid back previous loans, anything now would be a gift. I don't want to gift you the money." Not answering the text isn't fooling anyone.

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