Is something changing or am I just getting lazy ?

I don`t see it as laziness, Teresa. It`s recognising your limitations.

I may like to use machines or other tools, but getting the job done safely is my primary concern. I don`t believe in spending a week to do something that can be done in ten minutes with a machine.

Clearing trees knocked down by a storm is hazardous work without the right equipment and a good sense of where the safety issues lie. It`s all too easy to be injured or killed because something fell or rolled on top of you or a branch hits something after it`s been cut from the trunk.

As we get older our motto gets to be," Pace yourself." I know I'm probably lying to myself, but I tried working with a bunch of 40 year olds about a month ago and I was exhausted every night when I got home.

I have worked and supported myself sinse i was 11 ys oid. At 76.75 yrs, I still feel guilt if I do not do the jobs and chores that need done. The body will start to put the dampers to you chores, by making you question whither is a heart attack. or allergies causing the gasping for breath. Thanks to the Financial institutions I trusted to turn my 401k into a 001k, and living longer than i planned for, hiring things done kills my scotch heart to pay to have something done that i have the skills to do. Age is slowing me down, and causing my pride to stand down, darn old age.....

None of us are growing younger. At least we aren't facing the alternative as of yet. I decided early on I should pursue what my heart wanted and save the day job for later if that didn't work out. As that tended to put me into a life that was less than financiallycomfortable, I had to learn how to fix things that broke as replacement wasn't possible. I was later able to use those skills to secure a place in my later years that provided a decent pension (almost enough to live on). I have never regretted it, but over time it was physically punishing. I had always fixed my own stuff (from necessity, which, as we all know, is a mother , but also because if something screwed up, I would know what it was), but as I retired I knew my future didn't include crawling under cars, sheet rock or any heavy lifting. Serious health problems had begun to rain down and multiply. I couldn't kneel or even squat without severe pain (plus a lot of difficulty getting back up), my back had been seriously damaged at work and a severe depression after my partner's death 3 years ago that I'm just pulling out of (minus medication or psychobabble) which left me close to bedridden. I am going through a newly available course of treatment for the longest standing health concern. and am trying to lose weight (about 20 lbs so far this run, cumulative 40) and get at least some exercise (mental as well as physical). It's ultimately a losing battle, but I intend to fight as long a retreat as I can manage.

I really must thank you all for your replies, I'll know when I'm lazy, when I can't be bothered to Cd ! Besides the wife's to do list is getting longer and luckily mine is getting shorter, I've just torn it in half !
Rather worryingly I don't mind using the chainsaw, their big mistake was allowing me to buy a bigger Husky and as Katey and others pointed out tackling a 60' tree tangled in another raises safety issues. Last time I downed a 45' conifer the nearest I got to a health and safety officer was my demented 30 year old son flapping round like a headless chicken, thinking I was going to drop it through the house ! It went exactly where I planned, AX MEN has a lot to answer for.
Maybe it's not so much about being lazy but remembering things. I fitted a new clutch cable on my mower yesterday, could I remember how to fit the new one ? Sometimes I think it's safer to order two replacements, the first you destroy in finding how to fit it and hopefully you fit the second before you forget again !
Maybe I'm not getting lazy, just older and wiser ! OK so the wife has a different version to that, bless them that's why we marry them !

Hi Teresa,

Well I think is it just natural evolution of one's common sense to take things a bit easier as you get older. I still find myself doing a lot of things I used to do 20 years ago but my body does not respond like a 30 year old the next day :doh: Is it being lazy, absolutely not. If you work hard all your life, nothing wrong with taking some time to just smell the roses . . . or buy a dress :battingeyelashes:. If Teresa, wants to play some catch-up . . . why not. She deserves some fun as well.

Hugs

Isha

At one time I would never consider paying someone to do something I could do myself. Then one day, many years ago, I was laying on my back on the cold ground in mid November putting a new muffler on my car. Every couple of minutes a bunch of dirt and rust flakes would fall in my face and get in my eyes. Then I realized that I had more than enough money to pay someone else to do this, so why not?

As far as I'm concerned, it's not laziness. It's common sense.

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Originally Posted by Teresa

I'm not looking for some medals pinned to my chest because I know I'm not in isolation with what I'm saying.

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I'm not looking for someone to pin a medal on my chest, and not just because I don't deserve it. Those breastforms are expensive and I don't want that pin to hit in the wrong place. Know what i mean?