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</head><body><p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Years ago, 1950+/-, I remember my Dad telling a cousin that in the past doctors had been telling retiring male patients "Charlie, you have worked hard farming all of your life; sit back and relax. A few years later Charlies were dying. The medical world soon realized this; they readily changed their recommendations to 'Deep working, keep active Charlie'". And that readily extended Charlies life span Herb(GA).<br></p><blockquote type="cite">On March 7, 2019 at 1:51 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176@gmail.com> wrote: <br> </blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><snip><br><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>If it gives you any encouragement I turn 77 in a few weeks and after I finally got past serious muscle damage from various statins after my bypass I am back to serious work. I'm still slower and I am still behind but I still spend a fair amount of time swinging from a chainsaw and I do all of my wood splitting by hand with an 8 pound maul. Really big blocks especially those that are really gnarly I split with a batch of wedges (the real old ones are far better than the new ones) and a 10 pound sledge.</div><div>I have now abandoned my 30 year plans... :-) I only get serious about 5 year planning now. I intend to stay active "by damn" and not always take the easy road. It doesn't much matter what I am doing as long as I keep doing. Too many of my old classmates that I stay in contact with are just sitting around and are barely active at all.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>. <br></div></div><br></blockquote></body></html>