Gettin` old ain`t for weaklings.
Got a grandson be 2 in April just want to be able take him hunting and fishing a little his dad not going to do it
I'm 66 now and things are wearing on me. I had my left knee replaced several years ago and it turned out great. A couple of years later the left hip got replaced and it turned out not so great. Better than it was but still in constant pain.
The right knee is gone, to the point something will have to be done shortly.
I have spinal stenosis and 3 years ago they said it need operating on right away. I've toughed it out so far but it's getting tougher than me now.
I have deteriorating joint disease in both shoulders. It's been bothering me for years but now it's getting critical. Worst thing about the shoulders is it's affecting my shooting in negative ways.
I'm missing a disc in my upper neck from high school football. But it doesn't bother me much anymore.
Just before deer season I was diagnosed with diabetes. I had no idea how this would effect me or how I'd know it but I learned some things. When my sugar gets too low my eyesight gets real blurry and my brain goes on the blitz. I had a couple of bucks chase a doe right by me, and saw what I was sure was a couple of good bucks but couldn't see well enough to know for sure and couldn't raise my rifle to shoot them when I wanted to. At least the fix for this was easy. 3 sugar packs will get me back to normal. I carry peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and poptarts when I go deer hunting.
I don't get as much done as I used to but somethings must be done daily. I have 6 Arabian horses to care for. Worse I have a stallion. A stud horse changes the dynamics of daily life a great deal.
All this is hard on me. I used to be very active. I taught Tae Kwon Do and was a serious practitioner also. Ran 8 to 12 miles a day. I bench pressed 315 pounds twice when I was 55.
Now I'm just a shadow of that person and the future is not bright.
Some of us are fortunate that we can get into advanced age and still climb to the top of the mountain.
Some of us can hardly get out the door.
I have them in both eyes, was diagnosed two weeks ago. Looks like I`m gonna have to do something about the everlasting things.
You planning to get the cataracts done this year Nic?
Any of you young men near Milkman and me we need to hit Pot Luck for breakfast early one morning and have a biscuit and share some stories.
Great idea.
Gentlemen
The place Miguel mentions is a popular breakfast restaurant in Monroe Ga. Walton county. That’s about 20 miles west of Athens and 30 miles east of Stone Mountain.
Maybe we could pick a Saturday morning before the ? season gets here.
Ok
We never got this off the ground last fall. Does anyone want to do a breakfast get together in Monroe Ga this late winter/ early spring?
Tagging a few local members
@Miguel Cervantes
@01Foreman400
@Arrow Flinger
@Hoss
@MYRX
@Big7
@Cook&Bro
@DeucesWild
@whitedog
We are all on a big ship - on a cruise across the world and in spite of the danger of being swept away at any time or perhaps because of the danger one is not allowed to be depressed or unhappy. The way the world works which is badly - leaves a strong incentive to live purposefully and to be determined about living well. There are no happy endings. Death is horrible, final and frequently premature so an unhappy ending does not undermine a rich and energetic life
Old Shakespear said it best:
Cowards die many times before their death.
Of all the wonders I yet have seen it seems to me most strange
that men should fear, seeing that death a necessary end
will come when it will come.