Hey Cinderella
Good to hear from you and welcome to our thread. Glad to hear you ar healthy and happy. (and loved!)
Smooches,
Keri

Hi Keri,today I went garage sale hopping,to .To bad u arent close cause you would have had a blast going.I pickerd up a clasical guitar for ten bucks thats a bit dusty and a fue strings short at all six,then a pro qulity key bord with sheet music for 20.00,now im on a quest for three more things I have been looking for..a banjo,a set of drums along with a fiddle.I can play by ear pretty good..its been a long time sence I played and I am wanting to do it all over again.

Hi Rockin,
Wow I can't believe I missed your post. How exciting for you to get back into playing music! With all the instruments you want to acquire, you must have a lot of musical talent. I hope you are making progress and enjoying yourself. I used to play a decent guitar myself years ago. I still fantasize about singing with a band. Guess it would be a geezer band now, LOL But so what as long as we are having fun. I'm not real interested in oldies though and would like to do more current music, maybe even a little (very little) rap. I love the energy of hip hop too.

To all you silver folk. I hope you are happy and healthy out there. Stop in and chat.
Smooches,
Keri

Hello to u,glad to hear from u.
Well we need a singer for the pool hall junkies band,its a hodge podge of folks who had the crazy idea we could do this music thing.We get together a couple of times a week to play some tunes.Last time we actualy were playing things that sound fairly well considering all of us are just reliveing what we missed a lomg time ago.
This weekend i'm going to a couple of garage sales to see what I can find,even if I dont find a thing it will be fun to go and get out before it gets really cold,at the moment its is 60* breezy and my joints hurt.I got the heads up on an estate sale thats comeing up in an older part of town where they have familys that have lived in these big old houses for generations..heck they have no idea what thay have a lot of times.Once I went to one that had the sttic door open and a sign on it that said $50.00 take ur pick and did I ever.

Rockin
You definetly seem to be one of those people who once they make their minds up to do something, just go out and get it done. How fun that you are in a band! I've been contemplating trying to do something like that at church. We don't have a music person right now, and I don't have the skills to do that anyway, but I've been thinking that if we could get a few people together who play some kind of instrument, along with a few singers, we could maybe at least do a song every week or month... and hopefully it will kind of overflow into other music as well.

I will use you as my inspiration!
Smooches,
Keri

Keri That sounds great,all u need is someone who can play a piano or keybord,keybords are great cause all u can do is add the background then play the keys.I saw one that will flash the keys so all anyone had to do was keep up with them.Today I ordered a cd on how to play a violin it's next best to an instructor...I did get a violin but for only haveing 4 strings its the hardest thing I have ever had to keep tuned cause it is tuned from the bottom not the keys on top,its doable and fun.My fur kids sing(howel) along with us when we playesp the violin..great fun.

Hey Rockin,
That's the biggest problem for me in trying to pick up the guitar and play it again - the tuning part. It was always hard for me to tune, but I did eventually learn to do it fairly quickly (like 5 minutes) I am not good at hearing the differences in the notes. Now I can't even get it tuned right with an electronic tuner. I have no trouble finding voice notes and never need a beginning note prompt, so I don't understand why I have so much trouble with musical instruments. I also have an auto harp that I dearly love and I haven't been able to play it in years because I can't tune it. It has way more strings than a guitar, so it's kind of a lost cause for me.

Your "singing" dogs reminded me of my little poodle who died years ago. She loved to sing and especially loved songs that started with the word "Oh", like Unchained Melody (Oh my love, my darling, I've hungered for your touch) and Oh Holy Night. She was so much fun.

You are amazing - you're going to teach yourself violin, the hardest instrument there is, with a CD. All right now! I want to hear about the progress you're making.
Smooches, Mr Music,
Keri

Keri I'm not shure how good it will turn out with the violin,better word hear is fiddle,as we have some band groups that play good old mountain music or the tunes from down south Louisiana most of them never had a lesson...so there is hope I gess.So far i'm able to make clear clean notes without a warbble or bounce of the bow most times so thats progress.I have an digital tuner to clamp on both the guitar and fiddle so its not to bad.Mostly i'm a mad drummer from hell but don't have a space to put them ...yet.My son knows me a an eqestrean with a mission but this has him shakeing his head.Oh well I keep him on his toes as life dosn't get boreing hear.

Hey ....
 

Can a 57 yr old guy join you in here ???

Sure ya can, you young whipper snapper! LOL Welcome Darbonaire!!!

Shure, hop right on in and wellcome.

LOLOLOL
 

Why thanks Rocky !!! Much appreciated !!!....<grin>

Well, I guess it will be all right, but you have to promise to act like a geezer, LOL

Welcome,
Smooches,
Keri

Hey Rocky,
Are you back in the States yet?
Smooches,
Keri

LOL
 

Yes ma'am....<hobbling to my chair>.....LOLOLOL

OK you're in, LOL
smooches,
Keri

Not back yet Keri....in december I will touch ground in the good ol USA.
The job I had planned on was in Houston,but it fell through.
I am looking to find employment in Florida. I have some friends there and I think it will be a better place for me weather wise.
Anyways....how the heck is everybody? Everyone behaving yourself? LOL

Bump,bump hellllllllloooooooooooooooo any body home???Roll call please and thank you...whats been going on folks??

Almost 60...by May2013
 

Hi everyone
I have been away for awhile but I miss my online BFP community.
I often say to myself WOW in May I will celebrate my 60th birthday.
I feel peaceful and happy.

Back in thread after a long time
 

Well, you are in Kansas...
 

Isn't that where the corn is as high as an elephants eye? ;)

Maybe they're left-overs from your neighbor's last BBQ.

Cinderella - I don't have any corn crops...but there are squirrels around..this is toward the end of April and I woke up to snow covering the ground..I should be planting flowers instead of shoveling snow....:confused:

Popping in here myself, it is good to see the thread active. It still comes as a shock to my mind that I qualify to post here, too! (like hey, when and more importantly HOW did THAT happen, that I crossed that milestone and hit 60?? And now actually 61!!)

I don't feel 60 most days, or at least not what I imagine 60 is supposed to feel like. I don't look or act 60 most days, or at least what I imagine 60 is supposed to look or act like. So of course it makes sense to me that it does cause a feeling of disconnect for me when I am reminded of my actual age.

Well, time to head back to work here. Starting my own business at the age of 59, is still kinda scary, but really REALLY nice. I am also seriously looking forward to heading down to Austin in 2 days to see so many friends from here at the Halfway to Reunion party. I am in serious need of some good BF energy!

APG, aka Ann

I have been pretty much without a computer for a month, except for quick trips to the library to check my bank balance. The super cute straight couple that I sold my Michigan home to August 2011, turned out to be super awful instead. They stopped paying late fall 2012 and told me they had moved out leaving the house clean and ready to go. What with my daughter getting married, and the very cold Northern winter this year (not mention my reunion in February with Ben, a wonderful man, my previous partner, from whom I had been separated for almost a year), we delayed coming,

In mid-April we arrived to find my home a disaster, Mr and Ms nice guy had turned my lovely cottage on the lake into a grow house for marijuana, ripping out walls and wiring, (and closets - now who rips out closets? - you can tell she was no femme. LOL) and ruining every carpet in the home. Two large blessings ... both the furnace and the plumbing remained intact. Good thing, because the night these Florida folks hit Michigan, the temp was 31 actual and 25 wind chill, and we needed that furnace badly.


Slowly, slowly we have been cleaning and planning each next step to take. Had Ben not been with me, I think I would have just gotten back in to the car and gone home. The place was so filthy I oculdn't imagine that anyone had actually lived here. I forgot to mention, they stole the track for the garage door, so we couldn't even get in the house. I am a wheelchair (electric scooter) user, and they took out all the ramps I had installed, except, thank the universe, the large ramp that allows access to the upper level., which was somewhat liveable.

To put it mildly it has been an adventure. We have gotten the place pretty well cleaned up, had the garage door repaired, bought a comfortable bed and a cheap refrigerator. And yesterday, after a two week struggle, and having made three trips to town to provide more and more proof that we were NOT the people they allowed to run up a huge cable bill, Comcast finally turned on our internet service YAAAAAAY!!!

We got the bills paid yesterday and are having a lazy, lay around the house day today. Ben , who was up and busy for a while climbed back into bed where I was playing solitaire on the laptop, and is now snoring away beside me.


Hope you have all been having a wonderful day week and month, with as much adventure, but less agitation than I have been having this last little while.
Smooches,
Keri

Clarity
 

iamkeri1, may all be well with you these days.

Today...today I arrived at the office and found an email that a colleague's partner had passed suddenly...my heart went out to her. I know from experience that there is nothing I could say to make it better, but I could and did simply...listen...listen.

How often are any of us ever really just listened too? You know, no advice giving...just listening...to her sense of loss...her shock...listening and holding a quiet place where she could talk, and know that her words fell on caring ears, a caring mind, and a caring person...listening.

Frankly, tonight I went on my after work run...and I listened to myself, felt my feelings of loss, of wonder at this mysterious life, and gave thanks for her gift to me...allowing me to be a person that could be there for her...simply being me...nothing more...nothing less.

So, why am I sharing all of this with you? Honestly, to listen to myself, and know how much I've grown not outwardly, but internally.

When I was much younger I knew all of the answers, so I thought. Now I know that the most precious thing are the moments, each moment of a day when I can be in the moment, and open to it's call.

Perhaps a call to simply...listen.

Thank you for reading.

Sending you warm thoughts, Greco

thank you for being you...
 

Thanks Greco for sharing your insight and compassion for both others and yourself.....we are physically changing as years progress....but internally...we are alive and blessed with a vibrance and understanding that our younger years nary possessed.....we have wisdom!

a little music nostalgia for us old timers.....
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCDRIfdRI8s"]Beverly Bremers - Dont Say You Dont Remember - HD Bubblerock Promo - YouTube[/nomedia]

Yes
 

Well said rockybcn...and thank you.

Greco

60 ? hummmm
 

I turned 60 on May 20th 2013 and I am still not use to hearing Senior Citizen. A few of my friends and I were sitting around talking and one said Do you know that on Tuesday is Senior Citizens day and you get 20 % off My friend Ruby and I turned to look at each other and burst out laughing my friend Ellen said WHAT I am 71 and I look good I am not a shame of being a senior. I responded by saying I know girl but we are just not use to it yet. I am happy to have celebrated my 60th birthday.

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Smooches,
Keri

I'm trying to get myself out of a funk I've been in for weeks.

"Cures" I've tried
*Working endless hours in my yard, pulling weeds, planting flowers, soaking up sunshine and vitamin D
*Playing "bubble shooter" here on the planet and various types of solitaire from my computer .
*going out to a nice restaurant for dinner
*Telling myself hundreds of times per day the "happiness" is a choice

For the last few days I've been cleaning the garage. Wow that is hot work here in the scorching Florida September, The garage looks lots better - still a long way to go, but I still feel bluesy.

So tonight I am here with my "peeps", catching up reading postings about same sex marriage. It's hard not to feel better reading about all the progress that's been made recently. Never thought this would happen in my lifetime. Perhaps I'll live to see equality on a national basis. Wouldn't THAT be sweet!!!

Tomorrow I will pursue the ultimate cure - going shopping for fall clothes for my adorable grand children. My beautiful 3 1/2 year old grandson and my gorgeous three month old granddaughter. So much fun! I already bought her a Christmas outfit. A green velvet dress with matching bloomers and cap trimmed with lots of white lace and little pink silk flowers. Got it at a garage sale in perfect condition for $3.00!

Licious, welcome to the site. "feeling" like you're sixty is good enough. But tonight, I hope you are feeling like you're twenty.

Smooches,
Keri

Yesterday was my 61st bday
 

Now I'm officially 10 years older than the delicious butch I am dating.

Is she right? Am I a cougar?

Discuss…...

I don't consider 10 years cougar material. Maybe younger than 45ish. That's the range I put on dating sites haha

Do I hit a milestone on the day I apply for Medicare? Kind of auspicious, don't ya think?

Thank goodness for this thread. I don't have too much time this morning, but I'm going to try really really hard to remember it and get my big arse back here soon ( you know how memory is at this age-it comes and goes :-)
See all you beauties soon I hope.

i so agree - nice for us vintage women to connect - i am a late blloomer and:rrose: have never been happier :)

I haven't been hear for a while as life ha had me firmly in the grips of one thing or another.A few weeks a go I had been having a really bad time with my back(worse than ever) with too long a wait for the doc to d something.So he put me on narco 5 wich really pitched me for a loop,then I finely got my injections done this past Wednesday but still kept me on the meds.I have complained a lot about how it effected me and all I got was it will take sometime to adjust to it,I gave it three weeks then this morning I just quit taking it.I am so tired of going around with my head in a deep fog and going around dope headed of that and worse cause a lot of times I was so out of it I had no idea how to deal with the day.After many calls to the doctors office to talk to his nurse I just took matters in my own hands.It will probly take a few days to de fogg my head but it is already better this morning.I refus to give up what I have gained over the years building a life with mobility issuse,I have used a cane when I needed it to using the electrice buggys at the stores to get around so now I am thinkng of getting a pesonal scooter for when I need it,any thoughts on what is best from anyone?Take care everyone.Oh,please excuse the spelling my eyes are still not right from the meds.

Nice to meet you Sharonsuburbia. I guess you could say I'm a late blummer too. There are things I'm just beginning to learn about life. But on the otherhand, I want to be a learner until the day I die-how dull it would be not to be learning new things.
Anywho, in the last month I've learned a little bit about femmes and butches. For instance, I learned that I truly am attracted to femmes--I love all of 'em! hehehe. But I want to meet that one special one and at my age, how in the h$*% do I meet her? Clubbing is out of the question, been there, done that, don't want to do that again.
Anyone in here have any ideas you'd care to share?

hi :)
:rrose: