LORD, I get it now!

My choice of equipment, not so great.  The shop, not a picture perfect place on the old farm!  The vice and the old huge drill press in the back got a lot of work and the drill press, it gave me the biggest ouch ever!  Summer time was the time of no shirt and I am guessing if my feet were showing there were no shoes either.

Lord, I do remember that day in February of last year.  I was going back for a tennis ball and I just slipped and fell on my wrist.  The wrist was broken in two places and dislocated but the Dr. fixed it and it is good as new now, right?  It could have happened to anyone.
Sure, the back issues that started in Alaska and followed me all the way to Naples, just something that happens to people.  The cortisone shot in the lower back that took away the pain but now my leg seems a bit weak at times.  It happens to a lot of people.  You know what Lord, John M asked me if I was limping at the reunion!  I try hard not to but sometimes I forget, must be a bad habit that needs to be broken, right?
Ouch, the nasty cut on my arm, what was that all about.  I wasn't even on a ladder as I cut the branch off the tree.  By the way that darn branch has the nerve to still be on the tree! Sure, anyone could slip and cut their arm.
Lord, I am not complaining, just thinking.  I am in good health, I think.  I only take pills for high BP and for that darn cholesterol which has plagued me for a long time.  Really, that is all.
Oh, now I get it.  You are telling me that I am not 21, right?  I know that.  Well come to think about it the mind, you know the emotion that makes a person think, it sometimes tells me to forget my age.  Really, sometimes it tells me I am still strong and invincible.  But I know now that I am not 21 and I am not invincible.  You know the tennis pros in Naples, right.  Myke and Phil in case you forgot.  Phil had the nerve to tell me that maybe playing tennis 5 or 6 days a week is too much.  I thought he had some nerve and then I thought some more and concluded that MAYBE he is right.  After all, he is a pro.
I thought this morning as I slowly got out of bed.  I thought maybe this slow walk to the bathroom and the unsteady gait is due to age.  Don't get me wrong Lord, I am not complaining.  Gee, I know many people who never reached the age of 68.  I also know people, who at the age of 68, spend their time in a rocking chair or in bed because they can not physically do things or because they do not have the desire to do anything.  BUT, I get it now.  Sixty-eight is a good age.  Of course it has its down side but then so does 21!!!   I know, the downside of 21 is not the same as the down side of 68 but still, it is there, right?
Actually, this FP coffee is the answer to all my problems today.  It is gone and so are my problems. I need to get out in the wood shop and move that antique 100 pound anvil.  My shop needs a new look, but then perhaps maybe I do too!!!  I'll try Lord, I promise.