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adsm08
7 hours ago, Ed Kennell said:

I'll be attending another old friend's funeral on Friday.

 

One of the curses of old age.

 

I remember visiting my grandfather at home before we moved him out and he really started loosing his mind. His biggest complaint about having reached 87 in fairly good health was that he had outlived almost everyone he ever knew.

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953 nut

I always enjoyed time with my Grandparents and learned a lot from them. As I have gotten older I think back about the wisdom they shared with my generation of the family.

When my grandfather was 94 his doctor retired. I took him for his first appointment with the new young whippersnapper that took over the practice, he wanted to put Grandpa on a low fat no salt diet. Grandpa calmly explained to the young doctor that he had outlived all of his friends, his wife and and one of his children and was not about to give up the foods he loved. I was sitting there sort-of snickering because of Grandpas direct forceful attitude. The doctor looked at me and said I should take Grandpa out to lunch and buy him a hot dog and french-fries with lots of salt. It has worked for him all these years, why change it.

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SylvanLakeWH

:text-yeahthat:

 

My Dad had the same experience with doctors... I loved going to his appointments during Covid and listening to him lecture the doctors on his opinion of masks, social distancing and working from home... he had Covid twice in his 90's, once while in the hospital for a broken hip... his response? "Sniffles" and a shoulder shrug.

 

He died just shy of his 96th birthday... Miss him and his wisdom...

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ebinmaine
2 hours ago, 953 nut said:

Grandpa on a low fat no salt diet

 

 

Your grandfather was correct. Modern science is learning more and more every year and we now know that type of diet is doing no one any favors.  

 

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MainelyWheelhorse
19 hours ago, adsm08 said:

 

One of the curses of old age.

 

I remember visiting my grandfather at home before we moved him out and he really started loosing his mind. His biggest complaint about having reached 87 in fairly good health was that he had outlived almost everyone he ever knew.


My grandfather before he passed at 93 said something similar. Adding to that that he had grown up in the area. He lived in the same spot since the end of WWII so he was also losing people he’d known his entire life and he knew everybody.

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adsm08
3 hours ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

he knew everybody.

 

There were times like it seemed mine knew the entire city of Erie.

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Beap52

As grandpa (papa), I spend a fair amount of time with my three grandchildren.  Camping, skipping rocks, fishing, I've posted pictures of granddaughter as I teach her how to mow the yard.  We work on projects in the wood shop (small buildings and barns for the kids toys and action figures.)  Twice a week I take the youngest to his therapy and have to kill an hour so we usually visit the assisted living facility at breakfast time where mom lives.  If I show up without Gibby, the folks there want to know "where's your sidekick?"    I just got home grandbaby sitting for three hours.  The last hour was entertaining ourselves with karaoke--no TV, video games we were just having fun.  I'm thinking stilts need to be our next project.

 

Many of us have reminisced about grandparents.  Many of us are grandparents and it's our time to make memories with the young ones. 

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ClassicTractorProfessor

Spent most of the day working, or should I say sitting on my butt drawing a paycheck :lol: it was a DEAD day at the shop today. After work I was planning on going out to the gun range to shoot the new Ruger 10/22 I bought, but the wind decided to blow, so I went out to the farm and piddled around the shop for a few hours. Got the new manifold for the 1940 Farmall A painted, after it dries good I’m going to take it to a friend that has a big oven for powder coating and have him heat cure the paint, then I can get it installed on the tractor. Then proceeded to disassemble the water pump of the 41 M so I can take all the pieces with me to work in the morning and give them a good bath in the parts washer

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