The Seniors Thread :-)

[darksideofthemoon]

"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 🙂

But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul.  We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.

The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there.  If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.

The  belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad.  Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people.  Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.

Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.

What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.

Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later.  We can talk about that too.

Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.

The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...

So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here 🙂

So, onward and upward.  Let's go...."

[purple_haize]

I remember bath night Sunday, eeewk cant imagine only bathing once a week,

However, they did cloth wash thoroughly all over every day...and were always clean.  No deodorants, but they used talcum powder.

New subject.  I remember when the fisherman used  handnets on the northern beaches.  Any kid that helped them pull in the nets to the beach got as much fresh fish as they could carry to take home.

I remember mum using talc powder, as that is all there was, and we had big open fires in the dining room, and lounge room.

[freshwater-2]

Has anyone else noticed how friendly and courteous (without exception) this thread is?   I am enjoying it so much, sharing stories.  What an opportunity for a researcher on the times.

[bluepanda555]

Just to branch off a bit ......   does anyone here do regular exercise?  Any sort?

About 2 years ago I joined a gym and was so good, went 3/4 times a week and did enjoy it, then after 10 months just stopped going, and haven't done anything since. 

Oh I walk the dogs but that's hardly exercise with them stopping and sniffing at every blade of grass.  ;\

Would love to hear what people do to keep fit, might get some motivation .......:8} 

[freshwater-2]

Darki isn't back yet.  I do hope it is because of the pc modem problem and has nothing to do with the news last week  that the USA was sending a probe to the dark side of the moon.:^O

[jvharrison]

Well have been eating just fresh fruit salad for breakfast cut out coffee/tea and the toast for breakkie and yes am losing weight and yes am keeping it off but its very very gradual

Go for a walk down to see the birdlife and do heaps of gardening making garden beds........etc   The beef is so much harder to shift when one gets some maturity about one lol

[freshwater-2]

Got to a gym?  I wish I had the time to do this.  I am too busy climbing ladders, trimming dead  tree branches, cleaning the leaves of my huge roof every fortnight tied to the antenna.  I never open a gate while there is a fence I can hop over. :^O

[kayedonproducts]

My exercise regime is non-existent ATM but I have to lose some weight so have to get into walking - that's my favourite exercise as I love stick beaking at other people's houses and their gardens and come home with wonderful ideas in my head - most of them stay there :^O

We had an outside dunny - saved the paper from the bread.  Used to cut it up into little squares.  Dad put a bicycle light in the dunny as we kids were petrified of a night.  I was always seeing somebody sneaking around the yard and used to scream until Dad "rescued" me from the boogey man!!

Dad had 2 chook pens - not sure why, and a huge vegie garden.

He used to cut the heads off a couple of chooks he fattened up for Christmas.  All Dad's family came to our house as we were the only grandchildren.  One year that stands out is the year Dad and his younger brother cut the head off one chook and put the axe through the water pipe. They both had to do some plumbing repairs before lunch.

As somebody said back further (hate this new format where you can't look back - are eBay listening????) this is a lovely thread with no bickering - a welcome change.

I remember going to the markets Friday nights to get fruit and the vegies Dad didn't grow, and then we would go to the Library.  I'd go straight to the Enid Blyton's books which were always popular and hardly any available to borrow..

I got the "The Mystery of the Burnt Cottage" for coming 1st in 4th Class.  My Mother was so proud of me she went up to the shops and bought me one of those weather stations with the man and the woman - one would come out if it was sunny and the other if it was raining.  Should have kept it - could have sold it on eBay :^O

Best stop here - save my other memories for another day.

Interesting doing a spellcheck, chook and dunny don't exist !!

[kengillard]

hello Kaye..hope you're travelling ok.

I remember the chooks for Sunday....Pop used to chop their heads off and hang them on the line by their feet to 'bleed' and Mum would put them in boiling water to get the feathers out, and then gutted them....I can still remember her heaving as she pulled the smellly bowels out of them..

What fun eh?

[jvharrison]

Hi Kaye good to see you:)

And yes remember well the smell of the chooks insides.....wonder we ever ate them:(

[serendipityricho]

I dont attend a gym or deliberately exercise-it just happens.

Full time employment involves carting 20 litre drums

and other heavy items.

Yesterday i went to a swap meet-had to park a couple of ks away.

Then walk around all the stalls.

Got a few trinkets as well!

Have a great day seniors.

Its back to work for me today -for some exercise-lol.

Richo.