Growing old Gracefully can mean different things to different people. For some it may mean to embrace the aging process. Keeping yourself fit, healthy and your look up to date. Others may feel it mean to except you're getting old and be happy in spite of it. These are not bad ideas of growing old gracefully. I can see how each of those ideas can be helpful in handling aging. But for me it has another meaning. Like not tripping over the dogs or falling and twisting my ankle in a hole. Farm life offers many opportunities to practice being graceful LOL. I have had my share of farm-happenings that were less than fun. Ive been hit in the head with a pipe gate, hard. leaving a goose egg on my head, and a dent! My eye was black and blue for ever. I have gone head to head with a lambing ewe who wanted no help from me. She tried to jump over me and instead slammed into my head, Another black eye and horrible head ache. I have fallen over a dog gate and broke my shoulder, fell in holes, down stairs and the list goes on. But now that Im older, those type of accidents can mean the difference between me living this life style and me hanging up my overalls. So yes, growing old gracefully can mean excepting the aging process with grace, and it can also mean don't fall in the hole!
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AuthorMy husband and I would go on a country drive any chance we got. Driving the back roads, looking at the farms and dream. My favorite places to see were the old abandoned farm houses. I would take pictures and wonder who built it, who grew up there and what was life like. Owning land, let alone land with a house on it, seemed unreachable. Moving to Texas we could finally realize our dream. We came with 6 kids, adopted 2 more and now we have none. So Our solo farm adventure begins...Cathy Archives
April 2024
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