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Fess up b!tches, I'll start......58....LOOK 35. I'm 56. Some days I feel 30, some days I feel 104. Right now I'm feeling my age plus a little 'cause I started the day lugging a jug of spray around the hay field for 2 hours seeking out blackberries and queen anne's lace. The bending and off-center balance kinks me up a bit. I'm not sure if I get stiff and sore more easily now or if I just forgot being stiff and sore when I was younger. I'm blonde-ish .. dirty blonde, lighter than brown. I had a little gray in spots by 25. More now. And a good bit of sun bleach obfuscating the extent of actual gray. (Again, blame the hay field for that sun bleaching.) I've put on some pounds I don't want ... new (ish ... 2-1/2 years) GF is a good cook and since she can't digest vegetables (genetic SNP) we eat a lot more fatty food than I'm used to. That throws off my balance a bit and affects my flexibility. Really .. so far there isn't a lot I can't do today that I couldn't do at 40, maybe some things I can do that I couldn't do then. I know there's a turning point coming but either it isn't here yet or I've learned to compensate in other ways without really being conscious of it. One thing I can say for sure ... 56 does not mean what I thought it meant when I was 30. Though I saw a lot of people in their early-mid 50s back then who seemed to have turned the corner and were incapable of doing the things I want todo, it does not seem to be happening to me. I can't go run 5 miles without puking up my lungs, but I can still pick up my backpack and put down 15 miles or more ... I pay for it, but I paid for it then, too. That's what conditioning on the couch for 6 months gets you. More and more it seems like calendar age is just a number, not the same as functional age. I suppose you don't have to be told this, but stay away from ouija boards. In hindsight a mixed blessing but bad for a time. When I was about 10-12 some kids in school were messing with one. Never believed in that shyte, but it planted a seed that hung over my head. Said I'd die when I was 34. I lived up through 33 haulin' ass without a care in the world 'cause .. I wasn't 34 yet. 34 I spent pretty carefully. Every day since I turned 35 was a day I never thought I'd see and I'm thankful for and each has been a blessing. I'll take the gray hairs sneaking in there, a few pounds, some rusty, creaky joints .. I'm **alive** and that's not to be taken for granted. Tom
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Anyone who thinks there's two sides to everything hasn't met a M�bius strip.
Here be dragons ...
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I’m the baby so far at 33. We'll get you some reverse Grecian formula so you can fit in.
Anyone who thinks there's two sides to everything hasn't met a M�bius strip.
Here be dragons ...
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God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Well lets see
Worked for American Cyanamid right after the war, retired from Johns Manville asbestos in ‘59, taught school for 52 years, my eyes started fading, so go into rebuilding transmissions and large animal episiotomy.
Im 93 years old
Blind as a goddamm bat, talk on shît on the internet, correct peoples’ grammar, I wear blue old man lawn mowing Dickies coveralls, even to church.
And me and Angel are going to drive a 62,000 lb motor home up your ass. For real?
Dave
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Almost older than dirt, but not as old as the Poobah.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Thirty Thousand and one days - rather oldish in comparison to others here.
NRA Member - Life, Benefactor, Patron
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You asked how old is everyone. I'm just guessing but in has to 350 billion years, at least.
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50 in a few weeks
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57 .... Enjoy gardening and mowing.... And wear Dr Schols sneakers from walmart. 3 bucks.. Twerent even listed on brick seek. Been going Commando since age 12 also.
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Ill be 74 on the 20th of this month.
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74 next month! If I can make it. Life has been GOOD!!
The foundation for old age is good memories.
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Ill be 74 on the 20th of this month. You the blue duck that goes to Ft. Rock cougar camp?
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The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
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I will be 77in two weeks.The old man is half way thru the door. I am trying to convince myself I can hunt the ML season and the rest of September archery
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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69 I have some electroics , pig parts,kevlar and titanium in me but still having at it.
I tend to use more than enough gun
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Dennis
Lets start over and talk about something you know about, like Mexican food.
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61 for another month!, Just got thru a Cancer Scare, tests come back Neg.
Deer Camp! about as good as it gets!
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