Well I'm kinda where you are too, Age and my nerve/spinal cord problem have slowed me down and restricted some things altogether. Priorities change and you can fight it or you can redirect your interests/energy and get the same pride/satisfaction. I sold my last project , a 1937 A and 4 B plow, last spring. It was presentable and I used it but wanted to do it to it so to speak. Sold it to a guy in Kansas and am sure he is just enjoying the crap out of it. Still , and always will, have the B. Growing old is easy, doing it "gracefully" is the hard part. People don't expect sore knuckles work out of us anymore, they expect guidance , knowlege , wisdom and optimism and we have plenty of it to give and in turn we need to accept that as our role and reap the satisfaction that comes from it. Yea, I would just love to get on a nicely studded up flat tracker and make a few laps out on the ice again too. Ones mind is a wonderful thing and parts of it never age but other parts tell you it's time for a change. Not listening or "fighting it" could be very costly. My Grandkids would rather have "Grandpa" around as Grandpa than watching him struggle to do all those things he did at 40 and 50 and probably end up regretting it. Sell it and watch/guide him to build it. RB
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