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Between driving junk, and fixing them all the time, maintaining 4 acres of lawn, at this house, and still moving the household from the old place to the new place, and keeping up the 1/3 acre lot of the old house. Repairing and remodeling a 120 YO farm house, I get plenty of exercise. I eat sensibly, and am slowly dropping weight, 230 lbs at 6 feet. I'll be 70 in January.
Whoever said getting old, ain't for sissies was right. Hopefully I'm not a sissy... My father lived to 92, and he never stopped moving, so I do believe that is true. Once you become sedentary you go downhill quickly. My mother made it to 99, she stayed by herself in assisted living until the last month of her life. |
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"I don't know, but I been told, you never slow down, you never grow old"
Tom Petty
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Right on!
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No humiliation if you have your oil changed,
its when you start wearing white socks and rubber clogs that you should be slapped and sent to the home.
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"Between driving junk, and fixing them all the time, maintaining 4 acres of lawn, at this house, and still moving the household from the old place to the new place, and keeping up the 1/3 acre lot of the old house. Repairing and remodeling a 120 YO farm house, I get plenty of exercise. I eat sensibly, and am slowly dropping weight, 230 lbs at 6 feet. I'll be 70 in January." quote by Sirrotica
1) I am 6 foot, used to weight 245 and now weight 195. Just went from 3 big meals a day to 2 smaller meals a day and a lot more projects vs sitting at a desk.. Took 5 years to drop the 50 pounds. 2) I can relate to that 1/3rd acre lawn upkeep. I now have 5.4 acres and have the lawn taken care of by a group of commercial lawn and snow guys, (230 foot driveway). 3) My place is not a 130 year old farm house. Maybe 30 years old but needs some electrical upgrades for a new 30x50 shop vs my current 30 year old metal barn. Hope to have heated water in the concrete like Scott Tieman has in his restoration shop and a new taller building so I can install a 4 post lift. Then I will be back to changing my own oil again (like I did at the Pontiac Dealership) in the early 1970s. Congrats on your new place, Sirrotica. Tom V.
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50 lbs. weight lose is a great accomplishment.
Tom.
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Yah I took the wife’s SUV to the stealer ship for a quick oil change as we were leaving that afternoon on a trip. I didn’t have the time to do it myself before we left.
I know the guy running the shop and we were BS’ing about nothing when Juninho Jong Liu says to me to start it up. I say to him I didn’t see you put any oil in it. His eyes got big and he ograbbed the dipstick and then I heard the oil getting pumped into the engine. I’m not racist it coulda been any body at the oil change place but if my wife or kid woulda been there they would have started it up without oil. My buddies ride me for changing my own oil and have to dispose of it. But this is exactly why I do chit my self. |
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Pretty sure I'm not the only one doing the other bad thing, buying transmission parts and putting them away and
just prior to doing the repair I ordered some more parts thinking that it would be a good idea, LOL. Did not look in the first box before ordering the second round so I now have another new muncie 2nd gear on the shelf. OOOPPPS.
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