O/T so you think your to old

I was driving my backhoe down the road today and saw this lady on her quad at the end of her driveway. She waved me down and asked if I could pull her pick up out of the field where she had got stuck. She said she was just on her way to start her tractor that was across the road. I told her I would be happy to give her a hand getting her out of a bind. This lady is a widow and has maybe 20 or so cows she feeds everyday day. She also heats with wood in her little old farm house. And now the rest of the story.... This women is 85 years old!!!

Some can do it, some can't.This little interest she has maybe what is keeping her going, like owning a dog.Probably been on the land all her life [I presume] made her tough.

Lil Old ladies sure can surprise ya.. If ya live within drivin distance with a back hoe, ya just may want to take her a load of slab wood once in awhile. ya may even get some homemade cookies and the satisfaction of being a friend.

One time I was about 12 and we had an old lady most of the kids referred to her as the "Witch"
Always mean looking and even wore dark clothes, house was run down and had the haunted look. All the neighbor kids were afraid of her.. one day I was riding my bike past her place and she yelled for me to come to the porch.. reluctantly and with a little fear that I may be boiled and eaten or made into a potion of some kind I went as far up the walk that I could still setting on my bike for a quick get away ( Just in case ) turned out all she wanted was someone to mow her yard with her rotary mower and paid me $3.00 for less than an hours work sometimes adding a few side things like picking up limbs , Or burning her papers.riding my bike to the store about 2 tenth of a mile aeay...Got to be close enough the next year I needed a gun to go deer hunting with as a friend of my dad took me for the first time.. I mentioned to her I needed one and she went inside brought out a new looking 410 shotgun with punkin balls told me it was her deceased husbands to bring it back after deer season.
She died 10years later only then I found out she was 97 when she passed but forever made an impression in my mind that will not be forgotten.

My grandfather re-roofed the chicken pen by himself when he was 85. He cut a load of firewood with a chainsaw and loaded it up in his trailer when he was 88. Grandma finally gave up the garden when she was 98. They lived to 104 and 101 respectively.

Old gal up the road about 4 miles from here must be close to 90. She raised about 40 cows of her own until a few years ago, and still goes raising replacement heifers for a local dairy. Hard as a cut nail--

Sounds a lot like my mother. She was a self-described "tough old broad".

If there ever was anything or anyone on this earth that woman was afraid of, I sure never figured out who or what it was.

When she was 88, she was running around in the timber at 5:00 am helping the Game Commission track down some deer poachers.

She lived to 94, and drove her own car till she was 92.

Once when she was about 90, my wife caught her on a step ladder changing a light bulb in the garage. My wife gave her heck for being on a ladder at her age. A year or so later, she told me she'd gone up on the chicken house roof to fix a leak. She said, "But don't tell Charleen!"

Wife's uncle cut and delivered many cords of firewood well into his 80's- gave it to widows and senior citizens. Finally quit when almost 90, because he had outlived all his "customers".

I've had a few relatives like that - all women. I love it when people in those age groups are making fools out of people half their age. They all have at least one thing in common - they have a purpose for living life everyday. I'm hoping to be like them at that age when I get there.

The man that owned and built my house made a garage floor and a patio out of broken concrete the city used to bring him all by hand. And now I'm replaced with new concrete and there's pieces my front loader won't lift. He did that in his late 80's and he passed away here at 95 in the garden.