Getting Older

[Zogman]

On getting older…

"We must recognize that, as we grow older, we become like old cars – more and more repairs and replacements are necessary."
- C.S. Lewis

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it."
- Golda Meir

"I’m so old that my blood type is discontinued."
- Bill Dana

"The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened."
- Mark Twain

"I don’t plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet."
- Rita Rudner

"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down."
- Leo Rosenberg

"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us…. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us.... At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all."
- Ann Landers

"When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labelled senile."
- George Burns

"You know you’re getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead."
- John Mendoza

"I don't do alcohol anymore – I get the same effect just standing up fast."
-Anonymous

"Getting older. I used to be able to run a 4-minute mile, bench press 380 pounds, and tell the truth."
- Conan O’Brien

"I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don’t have to."
- Albert Einstein

"You know you are getting old when everything hurts, and what doesn’t hurt doesn’t work."
- Hy Gardner

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old."
- Mark Twain

“You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.”
- George Burns

 

[snow2]

Agreed,down side our brain thinks we're still in our 30's doing things,business as usual then your body reminds you," dont do that" if your lucky.

 

[LBrandt]

Past the point of "getting older". Hell I would feel better if I was just "older". Dino now comes in play. LB

 

[Eatsleeptrap]

It's not for the foolish or weak minded.

 

[Davey Crockett]

If I would have known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.

 

[Trip McNeely]

I’m around that “crossover” point for lack of better terms. My mind has the will and determination to write the checks still yet my body isn’t as good at cashing it anymore. I’m struggling accepting that I can’t do what I once could. At least without repercussion. I look back at the things I used to do or lack of sleep chasing waterfowl and can’t even begin to understand how I could even function. Now if it’s not an evening hunt I’m not interested. Even then setting out 1000 snow decoys doesn’t appeal to me anymore……

 

[guywhofishes]

If I would have known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself.

AMEN

 

[riverview]

I'm only 60 and starting to notice I'm getting lazier .

 

[snow2]

I'm only 60 and starting to notice I'm getting lazier .

Lol,yup that's how it starts bet you'll start road hunting more now as well,been there done that.

Waterfowling i seldom decoy hunt i rather sit on a good dry land pass shoot, watch the excitement on my dogs face and how he works.

 

[AR-15]

Like I say, we are living proof that we can get away with a lot of shit and still be alive, should have been dead many times over

 

[wslayer]

When going out Canada goose hunting, we are always trying to find an extra body or two just to help set up and pick up the decoy spread ( approx 65), use to do it 2 or 3 guys.
And agree with @AR-15 , should have had 1 foot in the grave already from all the shenanigans we pulled.

 

[LBrandt]

The good die young so I hear. LB

 

[1lessdog]

When going out Canada goose hunting, we are always trying to find an extra body or two just to help set up and pick up the decoy spread ( approx 65), use to do it 2 or 3 guys.
And agree with @AR-15 , should have had 1 foot in the grave already from all the shenanigans we pulled.

I'm 66 yrs old and get around really good. To put out 65 decoys is a piece of cake. Less than hr job for me. And that's counting putting layout blind out.

 

[riverview]

Lol,yup that's how it starts bet you'll start road hunting more now as well,been there done that.

Waterfowling i seldom decoy hunt i rather sit on a good dry land pass shoot, watch the excitement on my dogs face and how he works.

no I dont think i will ever be a road hunter, I just dont accomplish as many things as i did when i was younger.

 

[701FishSlayer]

I'm 43 goin on 78.

 

[Tinesdown]

I’m around that “crossover” point for lack of better terms. My mind has the will and determination to write the checks still yet my body isn’t as good at cashing it anymore. I’m struggling accepting that I can’t do what I once could. At least without repercussion. I look back at the things I used to do or lack of sleep chasing waterfowl and can’t even begin to understand how I could even function. Now if it’s not an evening hunt I’m not interested. Even then setting out 1000 snow decoys doesn’t appeal to me anymore……

Yeah the goose hunting is for the young an scappy i for one would love to get some flocks in iv never expieienced the rush i think that would be cool. Dont get me wrong those late season mallards an geese in December they are big birds id love to get a crack at them but my area they are very smart(riverbottom missouri river) i have crawld near them an not to 200 yards they gone that many eyes impossible to sneek imo

 

[Tinesdown]

The one spot i had luck savage on geese was in mckenzie county north west of arnegard. I belly crawld a group on a stock dam an had pot shots on them killed 1 wounded another those some bitches one i cleaned had 3 inch jelly fat 16 goose

 

[lunkerslayer]

I feel my mind is like a teenager again, I'm close to the half century mark, where I feel I'm going too fast and it's causing me to forget things. I have never been diagnosed with add or adhd but I know have it, parents never believed in medication so the old man was hard on me because of it. Ugh it sucks sometimes, and can be quite expensive.

 

[Rowdie]

I just went to my uncles 95th birthday party yesterday. He still blows snow in his and neighbors driveway

 

[Hamm's]

Just like a vehicle, as you get older the check engine light starts coming on.