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...."

[grandmoon]

Hi Richo and other oldies.

I have been trying to stay in the house as much as possible as all I am doing to coughing.

[serendipityricho]

Take care Grandmoon--we need all the posters we can get.

[darksideofthemoon]

Evening  gerries--hope you all havent hit the sack!

Hi Darki,Grandmoon,Gilly and all the others on life support.

Gilly -ask the question about the mower-i will give it

my best shot -or handball it to someone else-lol.

I am beginning to think we are all on life support :^O

Oh don't say mower, I've got to get my ride on out some time and my back isn't going to like it one little bit 😞

Getting the garden ready for winter, lots of cutting back and trailer trips to the waste station... sigh!

Moon do hope your cough gives up soon and leaves you in peace.

HI ya gil 🙂

[darksideofthemoon]

Morning Richo.   Do you know anything ab out ride on Mowers?

Sigh! 😞  I do Gil, what's wrong with it - or rather, what's it not doing?

[kengillard]

Well.

The mower was fine on Saturday..my friend mowed half of the lawn...came to do the front bit and either it stopped or she stopped it.

Now it wont start again...I suspect she left the blades down and tried to start it like that.

Neighbour came over yesterday and raised the blades but it still wont start.  just goes 'clunk'!

It had a  $300 service about 2 months ago along with fixing up the solenoid....

The batter was fine till it stopped, so don't think it could be that..

its out in the middle of the lawn with a tarp over it for the rain..

I'm going to try  and charge the battery and see what that does, and if that doesn't work, call the mower man(:_|) to bring a new battery and then if that doesn't work, take it away with him.

[kengillard]

Any helpful comments will be gratefully received.:-x

[grandmoon]

Any helpful comments will be gratefully received.:-x

Sorry no helpful comments from me as I can't even start a mower.

I hope that is doesn't cost too much to fix.

[serendipityricho]

Morning gerries.

Have the answer for you Gilly.

Change your mowing equipment--no battery needed.

Get a "Southdown Supaswift"---sheep.

Tether to the clothsline-goes around in ever decreasing circles

as the rope winds up.---problem solved---Richo.

PS-hope that was helpfufB-)

[kengillard]

Gee thanks Richo....remarkably helpful:^O

I'm thinking of getting some free range chooks....will they be able to keep down an acre tho?

Have a converted 'chook house' that I've turned into a bromeliad  nursery.

There's another one I'd forgotten....ie mispronounced words....commonly mispronounced as brom ee laid.  :^O

instead of brom ill eead.

[kengillard]

In  reference to your sheep lawnmower Richo....

Do hope it doesn't eventually disappear up it's fundamental orifice?

Going in diminishing circles can cause that