Getting old

DeerMadness · Apr 18, 2018

Running a jackhammer at 60 to dig post holes in rock isn't happening. I remember doing this when I was in my 20s- different results lol.
I feel like every part if my body is depleted.
You can all laugh now..

DM

feddoc · Apr 18, 2018

LAST EDITED ON Apr-18-18 AT 11:02AM (MST)[p]Laugh, yea, I'm laughing with you. Now when I look at a pile of logs, I see wood pellets where I used to start splitting.

Digging a posthole? Only with a back hoe.

Planting trees? Gotta have the back hoe.

Yea, getting old sucks, but it beats the alternative. Most days anyway.

DeerMadness · Apr 18, 2018

I found a young helper and it's done. I feel like I just ran my first marathon though. A Backhoe sounds better, lol.

projp · Apr 18, 2018

At our age if you wake up and don't hurt....
You are dead..

Gator · Apr 18, 2018

###### True stuff right there.

"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".
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BIGJOHNT · Apr 19, 2018

Starting to feel like a old man. I know where your coming from. I was patch some concrete the other day. Carrying one bag i was like these are heavy. Then I was remembering when I was younger carrying two 80 pound bags on each shoulder.

eelgrass · Apr 19, 2018

Yep! At our age our mind writes checks that our body can't cash.

projp · Apr 19, 2018

At least I have my....um....um......um.......
mind!

NVPete · Apr 22, 2018

I was kinda a skinny kid, and in my twenties spent one summer from HELL on a jackhammer: Jackhammered my foot pretty badly, threw the darn thing out of a deep hole right onto my partner's foot and broke his ankle, rock chip in my eye twice, couldn't see half the time as my safety goggles were full of sweat... wasn't a good summer. I hope you're on the mend from the aches and pains:"Old age ain't for sissies!" ;-)