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...."

[jvharrison]

Roaring laughing at Richo and the duck/fox whistle:)

[darksideofthemoon]

Hey I just googled and found some instructions.

This part is harder to explain than making the whistle...

Place the folded part of the whistler against the bottom of your tongue.
Push your tongue back with the whistle so the tip of your tongue points at the roof of your mouth.
Let you lips gently seal against the top and bottom part of the whistle.
Blow.
Blow soft and hard and experiment with different mouth shapes until your make it whistle.
It might take a bit of practice to get started, but before long you will notice dogs and cranes desperately trying to follow your instructions

I remember the bit about creating a seal with your lips is important too. Here's a link so you can see what it looks like too. The guy has gone a bit fancy in shaping the edges nicely.

http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Homemade-Whistle-in-less-than-a-Minute/step4/How-to-make-it-Whistl...

thanks beach... I did get a bit of a whistle, so I think practice will do it... it will save a lot of shouting at the dog if I succeed :^O

Cranes too?????  I wonder if the two in my paddock would respond?  hehehe!

[darksideofthemoon]

Evening seniors.

Re the recent mention of fox whistles.

Up the bush years ago i would show the young blokes

how to make a duck caller.

All that was needed was one of those ring pull can tops.

Would get their attention -then spend ages bending

the flap part into different shapes

All the eyes were glued on the method.

Then i would hold it up and yell through the ring part--

CALLING ALL DUCKS-lol.

Would get the mongrel of the month award for that!

Richo.

Hahahahaa!  .... was the prize for mongrel of the month a duck? :^O

[lyndal1838]

It just came to me it was called Camphor Ice, used when you had a cold, mum used it on me the most.

Oh I remember Camphor Ice now...my grandmother swore by it but Mum used Vicks VapoRub. I never noticed any difference, or maybe I was just so miserable with my cold that I didn't care....I was never a good patient.:^O

[fluffytom]

Hi Darki I think we used to talk years ago??

[mtnlane]

My Mum used to make little calico bags with long ribbons and put camphor blocks in the bags.  We would hang those around our necks when we went to bed - it helped breathing when congested with colds.

Does anyone remember cryssaline lamps (not sure of spelling)? They had a little dish on the top of an intricate metal stand and some sort of candle or heat source below.  Mum used to burn that in my sister's room when she had an asthma attack.

[jvharrison]

Memory was jogged last night as to all the Kodak cameras ive had during my long life..............cant believe that they are in such dire financial straits hard to wrap my head around:(

When did everyone get their first camera....mine was at 10 years of age:)

[darksideofthemoon]

Memory was jogged last night as to all the Kodak cameras ive had during my long life..............cant believe that they are in such dire financial straits hard to wrap my head around:(

When did everyone get their first camera....mine was at 10 years of age:)

Kodak in dire straights JV?  How?  That sounds impossible 😞

[darksideofthemoon]

Hi Darki I think we used to talk years ago??

Good Heavens!!!  FluffyTom!  Yes we did, how are you?

Years ago is right... how time flies... welcome here 🙂

[darksideofthemoon]

Good morning all 🙂

So many people arriving here that I'm sure have never gathered before... it's so good catching up with all our memories.

Camphor block and mothballs, blue bags, Sunlight soap... Lux flakes... so many small things that were just part of everyday life...

Yes and small watch faces.  I still have the one my husband gave me on our wedding day... it was tiny.