Now you are getting older - what don't you do?

[tcreeley]

As I age, I do less. But that has really picked up in the last year due to my shortness of breath and O2 usage. Last fall we bought a used Fisher HD plow for the truck. It works well. Just last week the battery was dead - wan't shut down properly. Of course this was the week I caught my wife's chest cold and could barely make it across the room. -I explained how to use a battery jump starter to my wife and son who had never wanted to know in the past.
It jumped the truck and they proceeded to tackle the fresh 8" of snow. The first drive went well. Getting into the second with what the plow trucks throw up was tricky, and the immediate climb and slope. My wife was driving the truck and my son using the snow blower (age got warmth!). Halfway up the incline my wife slowed down and the truck stopped. They barely got it back to the first drive - spinning tires and sliding sideways to the ditch.
My son was gone today - and this is the first day I've had energy - even running the O2 on 8 l/m for my IPF.
I got the snow cleaned up where she had gotten stuck - punching through an edge of it. Heading over to the barn I got stuck after some bouncing The plow was hung up. The underneath was snow. - Things are different. My wife as she has with all of the chores - did the dead work. She shoveled to free up the plow, and then shoveled the snow underneath and the tires. The truck rolled free. I finished the barn yard and we are ready for another storm this week.

I'm 68 now and my wife is 66. With care and time she'll manage the plowing as she needs to. My son is available via phone between his 2 jobs.

I never thought I'd watch my wife shovel as I sat in a warm cab. Things happen. I imagine we all are living through versions of this story.
Last year I was using my tractor and bucket!

 

[BlackOps]

try not to do stupid things. i am crippled but still try to do everything - but just slower. i poop out earlier than before too

 

[robbyr]

Being from Texas I’ll never understand what it’s kike dealing with all that snow. But as far as slowing down. Kinda hit me in 2012 playing church basketball. Hurt meniscus and knee swole up. I was 46 at the time. No more basketball. Regained some normalcy and continued playing church softball. I’m thinking I will probably call it quits and not play this year. Harder to throw and swing bat. As far as working in pasture or around home, I don’t bend well or get down low to work on something well because knees are tight and sore. Arthur Itis has introduced himself. Used to go non stop but finding lately I am not as ambitious because not as limber or “feel goody” any more. Will be 53 in two weeks.

 

[MossRoad]

I'm fortunate in that I still can do pretty much anything I want to, with the exception of jumping down from heights. That'll roast my back pretty quick. Like jumping off the back of a pickup truck. Now I have to put a hand down on the tailgate before I jump. I'm 58.

I went over to my in-laws' house to snow-blow their driveway today. We had about 6" of snow. My wife and I pull up, the driveway has been hand shoveled, and they were not home..... 91 year old father in law shoveled it by hand so they could go to the casino!

 

[PILOON]

LOL. anything I can get away not doing!
Me lazy? nope just not in a hurry.
Mangena!

LOL, also threw out the 'job jar'.

 

[300UGUY]

Aside from drinking mass quantities of beer, smoking weed, dating strippers?

Well that went away long ago. I had to give up softball a few years ago. I broke my ankle, it healed up, but is too weak to take the pounding. Oh yeah, tequila was involved in past. Probably other things, but I can’t remember some years.

 

[Eddie1955]

I am 63 and have learned over the last 2 years what it is for your health to take a dive. I feel the main thing is to stay as active as you can doing something everyday. Even if all I can do is get 2-4 miles walking in around the property. I have learned to keep a 5 gallon bucket around for working down low, to realize going into any project that it is going to take longer and tomorrow will be ok to finish up. I just bought a new SCUT to help do all the work I would normally have done by hand. If I were in your situation I would look at getting a heated cab for the tractor so you could stay warm and keep everybody safer and I bet you would really enjoy being able to do more things for yourself. Never give up.

 

[bunyip]

I am a somnambulist* and had a fall acouple of years ago, had a few sessions of physio which helped but now is coming back to haunt me with lower back pain, can't stand for more than about 5 minutes and my back gets really sore.
The tractor is brilliant and I manage a lot with it's help doing things I didn't think were possible (like smacking the fender on my new car with the bucket).
Wife helps out and is a lot more active than I am now but I try to keep up, I am 69 and she is 63.
I no longer have the urge to climb 200' towers like I did when I was an apprentice.








































* look it up

 

[shooterdon]

I stopped splitting wood with a splitting maul. Got a log splitter 10 years ago.

 

[robbyr]

I can’t get more than rooftop high off the ground and everything starts to squinch up.:laughing: