The alternative is much less appealing...

I still do everything I did 20-30 years ago, just a bit slower. I chopped a bunch of firewood this morning. Felt fine afterwards. Tomorrow and the next day, maybe not so much.

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Not a bad deal seeing college aged women checking you out either.

You mean the thickness of your wallet??

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Originally posted by Prefontaine: I look at fat fools 20 years younger than me in the gym everyday and I laugh.

I don't get it. Why would you laugh at someone at the gym trying to improve themselves? Laugh at the guy at Krispy Kreme instead.

Maybe he is one of the Festrunk brothers??

Turned 79 this year. Retired at 65. Health is probably fairly good for age. Don't really look 79 but at times I sure feel it. Still do some part time driving for local nonprofit. Do all the chores and repairs around home. Handling life fairly well. Enjoy my guns and shooting very much. I don't worry about tomorrow nothing I can do about it.
Merry Christmas to all.

I turned 61 in the hospital and had to retire for health reasons. I am however STILL BREATHING and I consider that much better than the alternative!

Getting old can get pretty old, pretty quick.

Great thread. Hitting the big 60 was painful. Everything is slowing down or not working like it used to. I still enjoy life, but sure don't take anything for granted. Every day is a blessing.

I’m 70. As they say, I don’t buy green bananas. It’s kinda strange to think about certain things. We got a new dog this year to replace one that disd. It occurred to me. This is going to prob be your last dog.

Same thing with last vehicle purchase.

I look at possessions differently. I think: “Wonder how much I can get for this? I’ll never use this again!”

I kept this yard and veggie garden to a bare minimum cause I simply cannot maintain them.

I made a list of values for gun collection so my wife won’t get taken while selling them.

I constantly think about how I can simplify my life. I still lift weights ans use the treadmill but 3 back surgeries and two knee knee surgeries have really limited my ability to really push my limits, so the limits continually drop. That’s the frustrating thing. I know I could still be relativly strong with decent endurance but the joints, hinges, structural and moving parts are failing and pain is constant.

I always thought when a person got old their mind would be too. My mind feels like mid 30s. It’s the structure that fails. I can still imagine throwing a football, but the body simply won’t do it without generating pain or an injury.

Girls are still pretty, flowers smell great and dogs are still fun. The body just ain’t up to it.

I turn 30 this year. Sometimes I feel it. Sometimes I don't. sometimes I act like it, and sometimes I get put in my place, and learn.
Physically, I'm "okay."
Mentally, I guess that depends on who you ask or what setting I'm in - the wife and I agreed early on in our marriage that it was just too late for us to "grow up," so we were just going to get older instead.

But I asked my dad when he was a couple years from retiring when he felt like he had "made it"- financially, career, family, home ownership, or - more specifically, how he viewed each milestone. he looked at me after thinking for a moment and said "i'm still figuring it all out. I've never been this age before, and there's a lot I don't know what I"m doing. No one's ever 'made it' in this world."

That' kind of shifted how I look at things, and I like that a lot. So I just keep trying, and so far, it's working.

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Originally posted by coloradohunter44:
Great thread. Hitting the big 60 was painful. Everything is slowing down or not working like it used to. I still enjoy life, but sure don't take anything for granted. Every day is a blessing.

Ditto on the 60yo barrier
Everything seemed to start to change (go downhill) right about then.
65 now and my right leg, hip, knee, ankle are getting bad.
New Year's resolution is to finally go see an orthopedic doctor.

My wheels are really bad. I have not been able to run or even jog for the past 15 years. I have always been athletic and I miss being active. I'm 61.

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Originally posted by mrapteam666:


A slow process of starting over, and not being able to run so that is whats killing me mentally.

^^^^^

There was an article in the Minneapolis paper recently about orthopedic patients breaking/wearing out their knee and hip replacements because they won't stop doing the things that broke their OEM set.

I can see that. But in my case, it was a birth defect. The first doctor that saw me told my parents that I would never walk. Then mom and dad found a specialist. In the last 15 years the arthritis has caught up with me. I was really looking forward to an over 50 slow pitch softball league.

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There was an article in the Minneapolis paper recently about orthopedic patients breaking/wearing out their knee and hip replacements because they won't stop doing the things that broke their OEM set.

77 here, almost 78. I started slowing down a little at 70, for safety reasons. Always been active but not athletic. Retired and hit a little slump last year but joined a gym - Silver Sneakers - and changed my gout/arthritis meds to Allopurinol, a more natural med, and have not looked back. A younger wife with a great outlook also helps enormously. One day at a time, look forward not backward...

Pretty well actually. Turned 51 a few weeks ago and still doing good.
Things have slowed down a bit, eyesight not what it used to be but still decent. More gray in my hair but because I keep it short(high and tight), it doesn't show that much.
I'm active at work so that keeps the weight off of me.
Could be a lot worse as I've seen some of my friends I graduated with.

Like others said, getting old ain't for sissies.

I'm liking power tools more than I did a few years back. Agreed with the wife, stay off the roof (two story hip-gable roof). Walk the dogs (hour at brisk clip, 1/2 hour at a stroll, and 1/2 hour dead standstill while they sniff and pee) should be noted times are not sequential but randomly occur throughout the period collectively known as "go for a walk"

The usual stuff when you're 70, can still do most things, just a bit slower. Enjoy working in the shop. Home improvement projects, we're fixing stuff we fixed before. Happens when you live in the same for 40 plus years. Least I know how I did it the first time.


Our dogs are rescues, middle aged and senior. We figure getting a puppy is tempting fate and the older ones need a home too, often moreso.


The fellas at gun shop and gun range show me the latest and greatest. I tell em when I wear out the X firearm I have now, i'll get one of yours. Not many of us have actually worn out a firearm to the point that it needs to be replaced. I'm not getting new gear, I'll take my chances on wearing out the old stuff first.


Been a good thread, have enjoyed hearing the other's take on getting down the road of life.

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Not a bad deal seeing college aged women checking you out either.

You mean the thickness of your wallet??

No. I don’t carry a wallet when I lift. And my DD is nothing special so it’s definitely not the car. I think it has more to deal with the busters in their age bracket being too into video games and their phones. They are fun to date, they just want to have some fun. Dinner, whatever, good times. For some reason the women here, when they hit 30, they get salty and extremely demanding. Either way, your jab sucks guy

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I don't get it. Why would you laugh at someone at the gym trying to improve themselves? Laugh at the guy at Krispy Kreme instead.

Poor assumption friend. It’s because they aren’t doing anything man. They go in there and think things work by osmosis. They are fat, lazy, and just stare at their phones the whole time hogging up a bench or piece of equipment. It’s hilarious. Sitting on gym equipment doesn’t do anything. You have to put in the work. They also don’t clean up after themselves. They never re-rack or have the smallest amount of common courtesy. So I laugh at them, and will continue to do so. The other grown people in the gym complain and I tell them to walk to the individual and tell them they are having a sale on burgers across the street. I’ve taken thousands of pounds off people, used to be a certified trainer. I’m training one guy in his 50’s currently and another one in his late 60’s, and I don’t charge either of them. I’ve helped people lose weight for close to 30 years. I have no remorse for these fat lazy millennials and their self entitlement however. What’s funny is talking to the women up there in their 60’s and 70’s. Some of the fittest women in the gym are the grandmas. They run circles around these millennials. Even the trainers up there joke. They call the millennials “stretchers” as that’s about all they do on the equipment, stretch. The grandmas have more balls than they do.

70+ here. I retire from my second career (part time for the federal government) the end of this month.

I plan to look for one more job, working even less hours, a little closer to home. I still feel good, get around fine and enjoy life.

As others have said, I'm probably also on my last vehicle, last pets etc. but I guess that's just part of life at this stage. I'm curious how life will end for me, but frankly thought much more about it in my fifties.

All in all, I feel very blessed and thank the Lord for watching over me every day.

I really enjoyed reading this thread,the one stand out was about the dogs.
I lost one back in July and there is such a hole in my heart.Have three others and I worry about what might happen to them.
At 76 I do not think its fair to adopt another.