Boy I'm too OLD for this.....

Will my Friday started off the same .. Got up at 5am and went to work till 4pm .. then did some running around in town .. got back home around 5pm ... started doing my chores outside { -20 wind chill } I have so many ... 16 cats , 4 ducks and 18 chickens ... they need water and food too ...
then the bomb hit ... found a water line froze , and my son called ... they {my son and girl friend ] were having car problems .. they were in Ill... 4 hours away ..
So I got his pick-up going and got the car trailer and what I thought we would need { by now he called and said the car died and they were sitting alone I80 at mile marker 40 ...
So at 7pm I headed out .. got there at 11pm seen LOTS of cars and trucks in the ditch .. some went in just before I went past { BLACK ICE - snow was blowing across the road } some think if you go FASTER you get over it ... some did ..some didn't ...
Loaded the car and headed back home it was around midnite now .. let my son drive { I had my WHITE KNUCKETS } we got HOME at 4am ...
went to bed and my alarm went off at 5am { forgot to shut it OFF .... did get up at 8am so it was a short nite .. now I got to go and work on my dump trailer { making a new frame , bent the old one ... this is homemade }
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I'm getting TOO old for this .. sure hope I don't have to do this again ... at least for a year or more ....
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Just thought I would share my FUN time .. he-he
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.................. mark

You were lucky mine call after I'm in the bed and not on a weekend, but we do what we have to do.

So you need to tell us how old is too old?
Bill

And when you get older you don't catch up from a night like that with just one good night's sleep. At least everyone made it home safely. That's the important thing. Jim

Oh yes, my chores sound about like yours only different numbers- 25 cats, one dog and 15 chickens.

Bill I'm 64 ... sure feel like it today too .. be sleeping some on Sunday to catch up some ..

............. mark

My dad always said when you have a short night like that, you have to sleep fast.

We call those nights "Roll Throughs"
You get into bed on one side, roll through to the other and get up.
Hope it all improves

Tony

Ha, never heard that one! Good one, had to do that a few times too.