"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...."
I have a creek too which floods wildly when it rains for a long time.
I have only had one snake here that Harry caught 😞
Thankfully he dropped it on demand and I was able to throw it back over the fence into the bush. Poor thing was wounded and probably won't have lived.
Other than that between short grass, good fences, a ride on and two dogs, and blue tongue lizards I think the snakes give us a miss :^O
Good morning all.
I have to get my garden (for the want of a better word) sorted very soon. I have just moved house and this has not been kept well. I live close to a creek and have been told that my place is a snake thoroughfare :_|
The Buckwheat sisters, Beryl, Beverley, Bonnie and Beatrice will be arriving next weekend. If there is a boy in the mix I shall call him Bob.
The Buckwheat sisters are guinea fowl. Named such because of the noise they make. They sound like they are saying buckwheat buckwheat buckwheat. They are not a snake's best friend and should lessen the the snakes desire to wander through my yard.
What fun naming those girls and I do hope Bob arrives with them and that they enjoy keeping down the snakes... can we have a photo????? I'd love to see them.
OH hahahaha Richo :^O
Well, it's pretty quiet down this way today. Did a big shop yesterday and am glad to put up my feet today.... of course if the sun comes out that might be different.
Yesterday was a perfect spring day. 16˚ with blue skies and a light breeze. The wattles are out everywhere making a wonderful show.
