"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...."
Oh good luck freshy... curtains can be tricky - it isn't just the machine.
You can email me if you want, I have made lots of curtains in my time... if you 'message' me I can send you my email address...
One way or the other good luck 🙂
Channys-Mum. I have snakes here. They hang around a pond in my mini rainforest. I leave them alone and they leave me alone.
In the interest of all my critters, neither of my wee house dogs leave the deck without their leashes on.....I would not trust any dog with terrier in it.. In some situations no amount of domesticity can compete with genes and dna.
The only time I have found any around the house was a baby carpet snake sleeping on my deck.. And there is Monty Python, a 8-9 ft. diamond python who visits and is completely benign. The first time I was visited by Monty....I was sitting on the deck having a cuppa with my arm on the top rail....saw Monty sliding along towards me....left my arm there to see what he would do and he crawled over it, up my shoulder, and went on his way. I am careful not to have my little ones outside when Monty is around. He can swallow a possum whole. .
My son had a python hiding in his duck pen.. needless to say he didn't actually know it was there until the second duck vanished 😞
I love snakes but down here they are all poisonous, not a safe one amongst them, which is sad.
Just back from lunch with the girls. I had the deep fried mars bars for desert. Yummo.
We then went to spotlight and come home with an armful of material.
Deep fried mars bars???? 😮
Darkii, you may be a curtain saver. Thank you so much. I will message you when I get home this afternoon after my rostered day as a volunteer at our local visitors centre. xxx
Got your message freshy... replied 🙂
Evening gerries.
Not sure about those mars bars!
Gilly had a visit from the watchtower people
a long time ago
Told em to get the -token kid to put a finger in each ear,
while i told em what to do with the comic.
A well dressed -very astute spokesperson said--
looks like we caught you at a bad time.
We will come back later ---they never did..................Richo.
Token kid heard all I had to say, I was so bluddy angry because they had left my gate open and it was just pure luck that my young (at the time) Blue Heeler was in the house or it would have been them chasing him down the road.
Can you imagine two fat well dressed women, a teen age girl and a small child chasing a pup who was enjoying the sport? If I was a cartoonist I could draw it :^O
Have fun reading it gil.
Strangely one of my friends is 'one of them', but she's a dear and although we discuss religion she is more interested in the history, as I am, so we get along pretty well on the subject.
Well I made pikelets yesterday evening for a corfee and cike do today, but overnight the shoemaker gremlin turned them all into leather for his boots so now I have to think of something else... any ideas anyone?
I have to be out of the house by 11.30.
