For those over 60 - The years of splendor

[FlyersFan]

4 minutes.
For those who think the final decade or two of life is worthless.
A bit of a 'picker upper'.

Scripture, Jesus and St.  Padre Pio say .... 

[Wild Bill]

Age is just a number FF  , I am one of those annoying twats who will not go quietly into the good night. 

This year and last I have been out doing gardening  and decorating for the older members of my area who are struggling to get things done , and all I charge is a cup of tea 2 sugars and milk   .

It gets me out of the house and keeps my brain slightly sharper due to my dementia and I joke with the locals that I still think I am on community service .

[putnam6]

Age is just a number FF  , I am one of those annoying twats who will not go quietly into the good night. 

This year and last I have been out doing gardening  and decorating for the older members of my area who are struggling to get things done , and all I charge is a cup of tea 2 sugars and milk   .

It gets me out of the house and keeps my brain slightly sharper due to my dementia and I joke with the locals that I still think I am on community service .

Yep, its all about attitude... 30 year old me would be yelling at 60 year old me, "what are you doing?" 

But you adapt to what life throws at you ....

We did daily caregiving for my Dad over 2 years with chemo, and now we have Mom, who is in the early stages of dementia herself with pacemakers, a new hip, and knee, etc. 

That wasnt the plan, but we are doing fine and adapting.... 

I really appreciate the extra time I had with my Dad and Mom, in my other 3 timelines, it would have been difficult, if not impossible.

[rickymouse]

When you turn sixty two you can retire, take the deal.  Once you retire you can have a birthday every five years instead of every year because you are retired.  So now I am seventy, actually I am not yet sixty four.  I like being sixty four better, it raises my attitude up.

There is no rule you have to follow the normal time frame for a birthday.  The only limitation is qualifying for social security has to be done after a certain age.  My wife retired at sixty two, now she just turned sixty four.  Blowing out candles every year makes you age faster.

After you retire it is a good excuse to say things like this.  Plus, until you turn a hundred years old, you are just Older...not old, only after a hundred should you be considered old.  I seem to get hurt more when I am older, but that is because I have lost muscle mass along with losing some weight.  I can still get around all right, but the problem is I keep lifting heavy things and without all the muscle I used to have...construction worker and Residential builder most of my life....I tend to believe I am still strong and sometimes rip muscles and hurt my joints doing the same things I used to do all the time when I was younger.  If I tried to toss a bundle of shingles on my shoulder now, I would toss out a shoulder.  I have a hard time standing up my twenty eight foot commercial fiberglass extension ladder these days, I think it got gained a lot of weight not doing much for ten years.

It says in the video that old people should be more kneeling and praying...well, that sucks, if I kneel too long, it cuts off circulation to my legs now, it is hard getting up.  My legs were shot and swolen from working on the truck brakes...I was kneeling for many hours, everything you can think of went wrong changing the rear brake hydraulic cylinder and brake line.  That ninety eighty seven chevy squarebody is kind of old, bolts don't come off easily, everything is rusty.  Getting the drums off both rear brakes and cleaning them up took me hours of kneeling.  Plus, the proportioning valve had tripped, I had to go buy a vacuum bleeder before I could start to try to get the proportioning valve to recenter. 

I don't think kneeling for a long time  to pray would make me feel better. 

I asked god to help with keeping it easy to fix my old plow truck, I think he laughed at me and said he cannot even preform such big miracles. 

It would have cost me over three hundred bucks to have that done in a garage minimum, it cost me a sixteen and an eight inch break line and a wheel cylinder which I got for ninety percent off at Advanced auto when they went out of business.  Around six bucks in parts, plus about a little over a pint of Dot 3...about nine bucks.  but lots of time on my knees and under the truck to do it.  The vacuum bleader/tester kit is something I have needed many times, I would borrow my brothers when I needed one, but he has been gone pretty much all the time because he retired last year and has been staying at his camp or traveling all over the country in his big camper van while he still is able to.  I can afford to have someone fix my vehicles, but if I did that, I would feel helpless.  I like to do things even though I hurt doing them.

I also did some more hoarding today, bought two more 25.9 ounce folgers again, raising my total cans of coffee to twenty one, plus I just opened one yesterday too, Again, we get to do crazy things when you turn sixty five...now we have enough coffee for ten months again, Buy two cans for twenty five, and get ten bucks off...came to seven fifty a can.  I keep my eye on coffee futures and weather's effect on coffee, I am pretty sure that they won't be going down that low in ten months with the way things are going.  If everything goes to hell, at least I will be able to drink coffee.     Coffee is one of the most important things to keep you sane in this world

[putnam6]

When you turn sixty two you can retire, take the deal.  Once you retire you can have a birthday every five years instead of every year because you are retired.  So now I am seventy, actually I am not yet sixty four.  I like being sixty four better, it raises my attitude up.

There is no rule you have to follow the normal time frame for a birthday.  The only limitation is qualifying for social security has to be done after a certain age.  My wife retired at sixty two, now she just turned sixty four.  Blowing out candles every year makes you age faster.

After you retire it is a good excuse to say things like this.  Plus, until you turn a hundred years old, you are just Older...not old, only after a hundred should you be considered old.  I seem to get hurt more when I am older, but that is because I have lost muscle mass along with losing some weight.  I can still get around all right, but the problem is I keep lifting heavy things and without all the muscle I used to have...construction worker and Residential builder most of my life....I tend to believe I am still strong and sometimes rip muscles and hurt my joints doing the same things I used to do all the time when I was younger.  If I tried to toss a bundle of shingles on my shoulder now, I would toss out a shoulder.  I have a hard time standing up my twenty eight foot commercial fiberglass extension ladder these days, I think it got gained a lot of weight not doing much for ten years.

It says in the video that old people should be more kneeling and praying...well, that sucks, if I kneel too long, it cuts off circulation to my legs now, it is hard getting up.  My legs were shot and swolen from working on the truck brakes...I was kneeling for many hours, everything you can think of went wrong changing the rear brake hydraulic cylinder and brake line.  That ninety eighty seven chevy squarebody is kind of old, bolts don't come off easily, everything is rusty.  Getting the drums off both rear brakes and cleaning them up took me hours of kneeling.  Plus, the proportioning valve had tripped, I had to go buy a vacuum bleeder before I could start to try to get the proportioning valve to recenter. 

I don't think kneeling for a long time  to pray would make me feel better. 

I asked god to help with keeping it easy to fix my old plow truck, I think he laughed at me and said he cannot even preform such big miracles. 

It would have cost me over three hundred bucks to have that done in a garage minimum, it cost me a sixteen and an eight inch break line and a wheel cylinder which I got for ninety percent off at Advanced auto when they went out of business.  Around six bucks in parts, plus about a little over a pint of Dot 3...about nine bucks.  but lots of time on my knees and under the truck to do it.  The vacuum bleader/tester kit is something I have needed many times, I would borrow my brothers when I needed one, but he has been gone pretty much all the time because he retired last year and has been staying at his camp or traveling all over the country in his big camper van while he still is able to.  I can afford to have someone fix my vehicles, but if I did that, I would feel helpless.  I like to do things even though I hurt doing them.

I also did some more hoarding today, bought two more 25.9 ounce folgers again, raising my total cans of coffee to twenty one, plus I just opened one yesterday too, Again, we get to do crazy things when you turn sixty five...now we have enough coffee for ten months again, Buy two cans for twenty five, and get ten bucks off...came to seven fifty a can.  I keep my eye on coffee futures and weather's effect on coffee, I am pretty sure that they won't be going down that low in ten months with the way things are going.  If everything goes to hell, at least I will be able to drink coffee.     Coffee is one of the most important things to keep you sane in this world

 I told you before on ATS, I read all your posts because I usually learn something you've experienced earlier than I have.

Im back on coffee at 60 after 10 or so years of drinking it sparingly, feels good, but the crash is hard, and a few days ive stayed up all night. 

After working hard to eliminate all my prescription meds, I'd hate to get too attached to the caffeine boost... because it's real. The pluses outweigh the minus by a long shot... Im peeing like Im 30... and getting more done till I crash

I might have to parcel out coffee shots and microdose cause it's 1:00AM and Im zooming from my after-dinner cup. 

Im pretty sure I won't be retiring early or at all for several reasons, most of all, it's a minuscule amount

[midicon]

Thanks for the like Ray but I've decided to remove my post, sorry.

[Wild Bill]

Yep, its all about attitude... 30 year old me would be yelling at 60 year old me, "what are you doing?" 

But you adapt to what life throws at you ....

We did daily caregiving for my Dad over 2 years with chemo, and now we have Mom, who is in the early stages of dementia herself with pacemakers, a new hip, and knee, etc. 

That wasnt the plan, but we are doing fine and adapting.... 

I really appreciate the extra time I had with my Dad and Mom, in my other 3 timelines, it would have been difficult, if not impossible.

My problem is the 60 year old me still thinks he is 30 when I go out to work and I tend to push it a bit far some days and end up exausted the next day , but the people around me appreciate what I am doing for them and the area .

Our local council gave up cleaning up paths etc when the covid lock downs started , payed off all the guys and sold  all the machinery for cents on the dollar , I can clean out the guttering on a house in 30 to 40 minutes easily and did 9 one day alone for older neighbours who get quoted stupid money for a simple job , grass cutting is the same , I get plenty cups of tea and bowls of soup as payment and that does me .

I was doing all this as a kid , putting out the bins and taking them in and cleaning up the area and going shopping for the older neighbours,  We had a thing when I was a young boy scout , Bob a job it was called where we went around our local area doing small jobs for a few pence and I never seemed to have grown out of it lol .

My sister was supposed to be looking after our mother who is in her 80s and the property but she fails miserably compared to what my standards are  , I had to go through and sort things out in the garden recently and as usual pushed the envelope a bit far and ended up hooked up to a ECG machine a few days later .

Back through on Friday for round 2    but my mum seems to be a tough old bird and just keeps going on , I joked on her birthday card last week that we will need to shoot her to eventually get rid of her    .

It is good when family look after their relatives rather than dump them in a care home  for some strange foreign person to abuse them , so i doff my cap to you for caring for your family. 

Now I am off to do my cardiovascular exercises / putting the bins out x 8

[putnam6]

My problem is the 60 year old me still thinks he is 30 when I go out to work and I tend to push it a bit far some days and end up exausted the next day , but the people around me appreciate what I am doing for them and the area .

Our local council gave up cleaning up paths etc when the covid lock downs started , payed off all the guys and sold  all the machinery for cents on the dollar , I can clean out the guttering on a house in 30 to 40 minutes easily and did 9 one day alone for older neighbours who get quoted stupid money for a simple job , grass cutting is the same , I get plenty cups of tea and bowls of soup as payment and that does me .

I was doing all this as a kid , putting out the bins and taking them in and cleaning up the area and going shopping for the older neighbours,  We had a thing when I was a young boy scout , Bob a job it was called where we went around our local area doing small jobs for a few pence and I never seemed to have grown out of it lol .

My sister was supposed to be looking after our mother who is in her 80s and the property but she fails miserably compared to what my standards are  , I had to go through and sort things out in the garden recently and as usual pushed the envelope a bit far and ended up hooked up to a ECG machine a few days later .

Back through on Friday for round 2    but my mum seems to be a tough old bird and just keeps going on , I joked on her birthday card last week that we will need to shoot her to eventually get rid of her    .

It is good when family look after their relatives rather than dump them in a care home  for some strange foreign person to abuse them , so i doff my cap to you for caring for your family. 

Now I am off to do my cardiovascular exercises / putting the bins out x 8

I salute you as well ... you sound a lot like my Dad, he never stopped, worked hard, and was always looking to improve his family and friends' lives.  

 my Dad fell from a two-story attic ladder putting away the Christmas stuff, and was lucky it only messed up his knee.

Do take all the precautions you can... but dont ever stop

[Wild Bill]

I salute you as well ... you sound a lot like my Dad, he never stopped, worked hard, and was always looking to improve his family and friends' lives.  

 my Dad fell from a two-story attic ladder putting away the Christmas stuff, and was lucky it only messed up his knee.

Do take all the precautions you can... but dont ever stop

The best precaution I can take is to slow down a bit and take a little more time as I tend to push myself thinking I am still a young buck ,when the opposite is true , The first time in a decade I have been on a high ladder was 2 weeks ago and I was climbing it like a mountain goat forgetting I have a double hernia internally,  by night time I am moving around like a unfit 95 year old lol .

Normally I would have attached a u bend to a industrial hoover and walked along the ground cleaning out the guttering but it has been years since anyone did maintenance and they were chock full , last year collected at least 25 brown garden bins just from the pathways around my area each is 250 litres or more .

Beats sitting in the house bored to death m8 

[DBCowboy]

I could provide a list of all my age-related ailments, but what's the point?

For me, it's enough to keep walking forward.

I'll never be the 30 year-old I once was.  But in t nearly 4 decades since then, I'm sure as fuck wiser!