[AT] Old tractors and old men

Stephen Offiler soffiler at gmail.com
Sun Feb 5 04:16:12 PST 2017


On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Herb Metz <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> When I was 15 or 16, I remember Dad telling a carpenter cousin that doctors
> were now telling retiring farmers (many farmers in KS at that time) to
> "stay
> busy"; their prior advice had been "they had worked hard all of their life,
> so sit down and enjoy retirement and take it easy"; unfortunately many of
> those farmers were being buried a few years later.
>

Herb, the advice still offered by my 95 year old stepfather, taken from his
96 year old father, when people ask his secret to longevity, is "just keep
moving".

SO



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