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My next birthday I'll be 70. Sure I notice a difference. BUT I still work full time. Never give in to it. I spent last Saturday on snowshoes rabbit hunting with my 33 year old son. I think I finally convinced him that I can do anything as long as he allows me to do it at my own pace. I think the key is to eat properly, drink in moderation, rest and celebrate being 69. The breakfast of champions year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
NRA Endowment Life Member (and proud of it)
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. - Plato
Deuteronomy 22:5
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that as you've gotten into your 70's that you seem to stumble more and almost lose your balance for no reason? I surely have. No! I don't drag my feet when I walk! If you'll put a bit of 'pee gravel' in your shoes or boots....it will help you to do the same!! And at 74...I can still give this SNJ-5 a 'work-out' on occasion!! ![[Linked Image]](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8477/8253879030_05fffb8235_b.jpg) Brettt6 by Sharps45 2 7/8, on Flickr Beats walkin' any day!
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
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" Have any of you geezers noticed
that as you've gotten into your 70's that you seem to stumble more and almost lose your balance for no reason? I surely have."
I have too and a fairly recent fall got me an opportunity to have surgery.
Getting old is a real journey.
Retired cat herder.
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that as you've gotten into your 70's that you seem to stumble more and almost lose your balance for no reason? I surely have. No! I don't drag my feet when I walk! If you'll put a bit of 'pee gravel' in your shoes or boots....it will help you to do the same!! And at 74...I can still give this SNJ-5 a 'work-out' on occasion!! Brettt6 by Sharps45 2 7/8, on Flickr That's just great!!
Retired cat herder.
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..and give up my walker?????  Try Cialis. It gives to a balancing rod to hold on to. Tried it can barely reach the ground with my "rod".
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That's an interesting use for it. I typically take it at night to keep myself from rolling out of bed.
Me
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I was 52 when the doctor told me to use a cane to keep from hurting myself when the back spasms jerked my left leg off the ground. Beautiful twenty something ladies started opening doors for me. It was just so wrong I decided falling was better.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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As a sweet lil' ol' lady once told me, "The only thing Golden, about these Golden Years, is your pizz". The heck of it is, at the time, I was older then that sweet lil' lady, so I already knew!
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Sometimes my middle leg doesn't break trail as it used to.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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that as you've gotten into your 70's that you seem to stumble more and almost lose your balance for no reason? I surely have. Been there done that and am still doing it more frequently!!!! 
de 73's Archie - W7ACT ![[Linked Image]](https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xaf1/t1.0-9/s180x540/532227_701629896563809_1743684631_n.jpg)
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that as you've gotten into your 70's that you seem to stumble more and almost lose your balance for no reason? I surely have. That's why my Harley went away last year.
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I can start to tell I"m not as good as I used to be as I approach 50.
Have used walking sticks since the 30s though on hunts with packs and such, and really, the 3rd point of contact always did help a person.
Fairly sure from what I"m seeing approaching 50 that there can't be anything good about further aging. Other than maybe being able to retire from work before I die, and the fact that I'm closer to dying every day... though I sure hope I"m not really close at all to that...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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