"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 I'd forgotten that moon.
I have been wondering why my spinach leaves in the garden have holes in them... thought it was slugs but no sign of them as I keep up a slow supply of safe pellets, but today I discovered why it was so...
Sparrows have a fixation on my spinach and sit on the leaves tearing them and gobbling them down... the little monkeys :^O
... and the did make holes lindal :^O
Freshie, I actually have a potplant that is full of weeds that have seeds on them. I haven't weeded it because the sparrows almost roll in it in their delight to have found so many seeds in the one place.
I have to say too, that they are all nesting under my eaves behind the facia boards and my verandah is very speckeled with white droppings.
Under the verandah floor boards and deep within the bushes I have blue wrens who are nesting also and the garage has its usual supply of Welcome swallows...
The air is full of the sound of birds and fledglings at present. I also have finches and thrushes, willy wag tails and blackbirds, along with bigger birds like plovers and ravens, white cockatoos and sometimes the yellow tailed black cockatoos that arrive just before rain.
Kookaburras do sentry duty along the bush line sitting for hours on a branch waiting for some passing tidbit.
Then there are the eagles and hawks that fly high up and soar over the place looking for the odd snack.
There are any number of other birds like the wattle birds and others I don't know the names of. It's a passing parade 🙂
