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da.bees

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How or where do you find yours? Before I lost physical endurance,I was content for hours working on a machine or desighning and building a piece of furniture. Afterwards I was refreshed and relaxed. Now it's ocasionaly frusterating not making much progress or having enough hand strength. Sitting by the fire pit with a grandkid or dog has become a new respite.
 
I opt for what we refer to as GPT. Also knows as 'gun powder therapy'. I pack the .22 rimfire up, set a target out at 150 yards, measure windage and calculate trajectories, and then just start lobbing em' in to see how good I can do.

It's a challenge...it's cheap...and it takes my mind off of everything, but pumping another hole in a piece of paper.
 
That is good... Sitting a round a fire... Diesel therapy(riding around in circles doing field work).

I have started having back trouble in the last year, realizing I am not as you as I used to be. Making a concerted effort to eat right, walk with my wife, and take care of what of my body I haven't ruined.
 
He did not coin the phrase, but made it famous: The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man."
Sure works for me... "Saddle up!"
 
Solitude works for me. Not necessarily completely away from people, but alone with peace, quiet and a good book.

Shooting works too, but it's awful hard for a tightwad Esso Bee like me to classify even .22's as "cheap" anymore..."8^)
 

Point well taken on the price of .22 ammo as of late. I was lucky though. Last summer I had so many people from work wanting to plink away with .22's out to the farm that I just gave up and bought 25,000 rounds (we were putting about 2000 rounds down range every weekend). It wasn't more than a month after that, that .22 went through the roof and became hard to find.

I'm still lucky enough to be sitting on quite a bit yet, though I do see it starting to creep back onto store shelves. 8)
 
Tough to beat a good book for that.
I just reread this one for about the 6th time in my life.
It never gets old.

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Well, I ain't quite THAT comfy, but my total does
run into 4 digits.

I learned my lesson when Slick Willy was in office
and stocked up on everything. I'm just a little
leery of expending any significant amount until I'm
reasonably sure I can replace it.
 
This is a time in life where you finally get to enjoy the fruits,smell the roses as it were. For me it is taking the ole JD "B" out for a summer drive around the ole neighborhood. Also a time when you buy a small camper and use it. Grandkids LOVE camping and will never forget it even after you are gone. You don't HAVE to produce anymore. Enjoy what you have produced. Like I posted to JD Sellers the other day...it's easy growing old but the challenge is doing it gracefully. Family will remember you more for how gracefully you aged than anything else. Even with my health problems, I will still find a way to "gracefully" get on that ole B and take Grandkids on hayrides and go camping with them. I will enjoy what I've got left and hopefully make it enjoyable for those around me. RB
 
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Finding peace with ourselves.
One of the hardest things on earth to find.
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Some days are good days,some days are not so good.
And then there are the kids to worry about, small worries when they are small, the bigger they get the bigger the worries get.
Sometimes i wonder what the "ell the purpose of life is on this speck of rock floating in this endless universe.
Nothing but strife and hate and war amongst our selves and the the rest of the population.

And then you die......
 
A lot of it is mental. As I got older, I have finally reached a point in my life where I dont care what anyone thinks about me. Once I got over trying to please people or worry what they thought, it was great!!!

Gene
 
I do not consider myself a religious person, but I do consider myself a spiritual person. That is where, ultimately, all my solace and comfort comes from.
 
Yep, best thing is some woods and a good dog. Dog will restore you. I sure miss my best friend on 4 leggs. joe
 
Works with sheep too, now you mention it.

I expect it works with most any relatively calm livestock.

I got a pair of lambs this year that think they're lap dogs.
 
i enjoy brush hogging or about anything to do with my tractors.i work in columbus ohio.then drive 75 miles home everyday after a mostly 12 hour day .i live on a one lane gravel road with no neighbors.and cant see any houses around my 130 acres.so just coming home to a place like this keeps me at peace.
RICK
 
After I closed my workshop and moved, I would go to a friend's shop and do woodworking there. Due to health problems for both of us, I have given up woodworking abut 5 months ago.

I like to sit and read, but my wife always wants to talk to me when I'm reading so having a hard time relaxing. Need to find a place where I can read without interuption.
 
A good book, my wife gone to a meeting or somewhere for the evening, and all three TVs in the house OFF.

I have two books now waiting to be read, "The Forgotten 500" by Gregory Freeman, and "Aviation Mysteries of the North" by Gregory Leifer. Both, coincidently, about aircraft disappearances.

They'll have to wait until my income tax is done.
 
A padre once told me...."you have to learn to forgive yourself." HE always does, but we concentrate on the dumb we"ve done.
 
Just get up and do what I want to do most days,and I have a wide variety of interests.I fortunate that I have very few health problems and I eat right get lots of exercise to try to keep my good health.Too many people eat terrible and hardly get any exercise at all.Also thankful for what I have and don't spend time worrying about what I don't have.
 
Do like my boss does and get those books on cd's and a player and a set of headphones. When she is talking to you just nod and smile at her every once in awhile and go on listening to your book. That is what my boss does to me.
 
da.bees, I am facing similar problems in that I am loosing my equilibrium, as well as just not being able to accomplish much any more. I have always, and now even more, loved to just go outside and sit, weather permitting, and watch the clouds roll by, listen to the birds, in other words, just enjoy what The Man Upstairs gave us to care for. When I was working, I would sit outside after supper at night with a glass of iced tea and watch the lightening play amongst the clouds in the distance. I believe in taking time now and then to smell the flowers, 'cause you only go 'round once.
 
I just like being by myself whatever I'm doing. Never was one to sit around much. I realize, I need to take time out more than I did when I was younger. I get so tired very easy. I get satisfaction from doing repair work on almost anything. At 71, I can't stoop down very good, but will lay down to get at lower repair items. The wife talked me into getting a motor home a couple years ago. I should have done that years ago. We are going to Death Valley this Sat. Stan
 
There's a place an hour north of me along the St Lawerence River called 1000 Islands where you can take a 10 minute cruise to Boldt Castle and wonder around or take a couple hour cruise and stop off at the castle if you want (I always do). It's a place I like to go to recharge my batteries and unwind. Maybe I'll get to go this year as couldn't for a couple years since other issues always arise. Yes I AM wound TIGHT!!!!
 
Building or fixing just about anything. Important thing is do go as slow as you can, take breaks often, think about it a lot. That makes it take a lot longer so the pleasure lasts, and it's a lot easier on old bones and muscles.
 
da.bees,
Just a reminder the loss of mobility (what I'm suffering from) requires a lot of intestinal fortitude so one doesn't give up.I'm speaking from experience,lad, cause I'm sure I've got a he@@ of a lot more than 2 years on you,and being fit for roller skates so it makes it easy to cruise down the highway of life to meet the Grim Reaper,and that's no joke,son. I'm proud of the accomplishments that my family has made concerning this family.The jobs my son and I have done together will last many years and therefor I'm proud to be a party to the projects.

Sure I complain and gripe and at 79 going on 80, I have a right to, I've earned it. I hate to count the mistakes I've made along the way,and some of the mistake have attributed to my poor health,but again, no need to complain, I caused it all.So my advise to you Buck-o, is like my departed daughter used to say, "Life goes on, so suck it up". Damed good advise,hard to do but necessary. Anyway,lots of luck with trying to adjust with your way of life and trials and tribulations you're going thru.
Regards,
LOU.
 
(quoted from post at 18:10:56 03/20/14) Bison> AND THEN ALL THINGS WILL BE MADE KNOWN TO YOU !!!!!!!!!!
LOU
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Yeah, that's what they say.
Nobody ever came back to confirm it though.

Were i live it is very quiet, pure nature,..dead end road no neighbors within 3 miles.
Beside my Wife I hardly see an other soul on the place, a month can go by before seeing anyone.I have only 2 friends,I see my kids maybe 2-3 times a year, all of them friends included but 1 son live 300+ ml away. That son i haven't seen in 6 years.
It gives me plenty time to think as i work by myself all the time.

The older i get the less i understand the meaning of life
 
A nice ride on the bike works wonders sort of lets me tune out all of the B.S. and forget everything,and focus on the road.
 
Boldt castle is nice. There is also Singer castle down the river just a little bit. Howdy, I'm about 18 miles north east of Alex Bay. You should give me a holler if you make it up this way this summer.
 
I agree on being with the cows. I like it when you turn them into a new pasture with new green grass. The smell and hearing them munching.
 
For me it's my messed up shoulders. Very frustrating to realize that all of a sudden there are types of physical activities you've done all your life without a second thought that you are never going to be able to do again. Took me a couple of years to accept it and adopt the "casual" mode. If I get it done today, fine. If I don't, tomorrow is just as good. You adapt. If I can't reach overhead anymore to change a lightbulb, I just get a taller ladder.
 
Since I started heating my garage this winter that has been my "go to" place whether I putz with the tractor that Im working on in there or just sit and listen to the radio.

In the summer its climbing on one of my tractors and going for a spin or heading to the farm my grandpa was born on. I have a tractor or few there as well, nothing like driving through the pasture or just sitting in the shade enjoying the day.
 
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