How Old Are You?

What's your age group?

  • 80+

    Votes: 9 3.8%

  • 70-79

    Votes: 34 14.5%

  • 60-69

    Votes: 62 26.4%

  • 50-59

    Votes: 57 24.3%

  • 40-49

    Votes: 34 14.5%

  • 30-39

    Votes: 35 14.9%

  • 20-29

    Votes: 3 1.3%

  • Under 20

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Total voters
    235
Time has a way of forcing us to be honest with ourselves. It cuts away all of the fat from the romantic memories of our youth and reminds us that from dust we came and dust we shall return.

Cheers, to all of you who defiantly push the hands of time backwards with all of your might! Your spirit will never die!
 
42 here,

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5K Qs said:
With a new year arriving, and with my Dad's passing and my birthday last month, I've been thinking about age recently. Over 10 years ago, there was a thread in which members on The Porch reported their current age. (https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/age-group.1295867/ Post #273 has a nice graph)
I enjoyed the thread since it helped us all know a little more about each other.

I propose that we repeat that age-reporting activity. I set it up as a poll by age decades so that we'll automatically get an "age distribution". Feel free to report your exact age in a post, as well as to indicate the range containing your age in the poll.

I just turned 74.

- GT
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Two philosophies around here about aging:

1) "Don't let the old man in." Attributed to Clint Eastwood.

2) This is taped to what we call the "epic" desk.

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We had a customer, a large animal Vet in the midwest. He'd sent a knife in for us to make one of our sheaths for it. This quote was on top of his animal hospital's letter head. Nichole liked it so much she wrote it down and stuck it on the epic desk.

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She is 13 years my junior and while I don't work at it quite as hard as I use too this is what's going on right now in the shop. 117 blades getting ready to go to heat treat:

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She won't really let me ride young horses anymore though. I wasn't getting bucked off but I had a young mare that was so dang fast and so dang handy she'd spook at something and turn away from it so fast that I'd go sailing. Now prior to this mare I'd of told you the horse didn't live that could turn faster than I could ride, but I found her. First two times I landed on my head so no damage done. Third time I landed on my hip. Everybody thought the old guy broke a hip. Heck the old guy thought he'd broke a hip. Didn't but it was just bruised very badly. Anyhoo I still ride often just not on the youngsters anymore.
 
David Mary said:
Agreed!
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Kinda an epic failure on that deal on our part that's pretty funny! Our office at the time was in one of the back bedrooms. So we measured and drew and measured and drew what we wanted in our new desk. Each shelf was specific, the monitor space was specific the whole kit and caboodle was to our design. So we gave our deisign to our friend Marta, down the hill. She and her husband, Enrique own a hacienda style furniture store in Bakersfield. Since we have a hacienda style house we have bought considerable furniture from them over the years. She took our chicken scratchings and made it into a very nice set of plans and after our approval, translated it into Spanish and sent the plans off to one of her furniture makers in Mexico. Few months later Enrique drives down and gets a load of furniture for their store and picks up our desk. As he's loading it with the help of his HUGE son, a buyer for a similar store in Dallas sees the desk and orders three on the spot from the maker. Marta calls and sets up a deliver date. They pull into the house and we are helping to unload the desk. We suddenly realize that despite our measuring this and measuring several that's, is that the one thing we didn't measure was the width of the #$$%&&*%$#$## door into the office. None of this desk despite how you angle it, or hold it is going through that door! Not happening. Quickly realize that the only other wall space big enough for this epic is the south wall in the dining room. So no mas dining room, it's now Nichole's office and leather workshop. Doorway here wan't a deal as there is a ten foot arch into the dining room now office. Back to the age deal. After we got it all set up here Nichole says: "Who else has a desk this big?" I said: 'Maybe JR." Don't know if she got it since she's 13 years younger than me. I mean she's never even seen Hogan's Heroes!
 
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