Originally posted by Racer X 69 60 is the new 40.
When I was 60, I did sometimes feel like I was in my 40's, maybe 49. But depending on what I did the previous day, sometimes I felt like 70.
I'm in my 70's now, and my neighbour cuts our grass, clears our snow, but in October and then again in December I meet with my surgeon so he can see how I'm doing with my replacement shoulder...almost a year now since the original surgery.
He will either give me the go ahead to mow grass and shovel snow, or possibly not. As long as my replacement shoulder can handle these tasks, I wouldn't mind to getting back to clearing the snow, cutting the grass.
In the next few weeks I'm going to set my snowblower up for winter, change the oil, grease axles, etc, tighten all bolts, check the drive belts, just in case I can get back to normal duty.
I kind of miss it, well except when a heavy prairie blizzard sweeps in.
My property maintenance
machinery, mower and snowblower are long in the tooth. My mower is an '88 Lawnboy 2 stroke (made in Illinois by Johnson/Evinrude) and my snowblower is a '96 MTD, made in Ontario, with a Wisconsin made, Tecumseh Snow King engine.
Regular maintenance keeps these old timers alive.