After reading all of these posts I need a nap.

After a good day on the water my shoulders are buzzin' like a hive of hornets in heat!

I fished Sunday.  while unloading my kayak, I tripped on an overgrown section of ground cover.  I stopped all activities, went and got some snips and clipped off the offending section.  it looked weird, so I went around the section and tidied it up. FOR AN HOUR!  when done,  I  resumed unloading my kayak and gear.   I was sore from all of it.

 

then I woke up with flu-like symptoms.   like a card carrying old person, I tried to work remotely.  I had a meeting coming up and I laid down to take a 15 minute nap.  I woke up 5 hours later...dry mouth, stuffed, feverish...haha..I hit the Tylenol and went to the bed.  I slept almost 19 hours.   unlike a person of my vintage, I kicked the flu in 3 days.  (knocking on wood - like a coot)_

 

I am not sure I could do back to back kayak days anymore.  I'd probably catch covid. 

I have so many things that would qualify me in the club, but my most recent one occurred Monday night - and it wasn’t even fish related.

 

I umpire baseball. Was calling Monday night - lost kid at park - stop all traffic from leaving - etc… (kid was found safe no worries)

 

from where I was, I was closest to one parking lot, so I chose to run to that lot to stop people from leaving. Thought to myself “I’m only 51, I can just hop this fence.” But, I what I should have thought to myself was “hey - if you’re gonna do this - remember that you have a rebuilt knee.”  Hopped the fence, foot got caught on top of fence and all my weight came down on rebuilt knee. So had XRay and CT yesterday, referred to MRI. Possible small pc of bone and/or tendon floating around…So, I may have to have surgery to that knee again. The good news is I won’t have to upgrade to a pedal kayak this year…

dang Kevin...

not your kid?  a kid?

@Darth-Baiter no, not my kid. When mine were that age, nobody would take them. We used to chain them to the fence with a $100 bill safety pinned to their chests. 
 

Of course as soon as I stood back up on my broken stick I hear over the PA “kid has been located”. He was probably next to mom the entire time. The good news is I’m a VA patient. So the referral may only take “quite a few weeks”

If I wasn't a VA patient we'd be living with our kids.  Yes, sometimes it takes a while to see a DR.

I guess I"m a member of this exclusive club, I have magnifying glasses strewn around the house, in my car and in a tackle box 

I'm in the club. I used to jump up in the truck, over the tailgate, shimmy down the trailer tongue to unhitch the boat. All of this just to stay dry and look like a real captain. Now, I just walk into the water. Easier and safer if you watch your step. Whoever called it the golden years was stupid!

Not the CCCC but I'm a member of COBB (Crippled Old Biker scoundrels) 😜

"Scoundrels" is not the word I submitted. It was the word for a fatherless child.

Try this---- Crippled old Biker Bass Turds. 

There.

Recently I’ve noticed that this happens more frequently, usually while sharing fishing stories:

 

“About 5 years ago ….…no, wait a second, that was yesterday.”

 

Time now takes on a new meaning, and it has become meaningless. 

Very fortunate to be in the best shape of my life at 48 years old. I do still have the hearing loss and need reading glasses,  but getting older is a privilege, at least that's how I'm looking at it.

I don't remember what I came here to post. 

I believe the simple fact that I don't fully understand the assignment, much less how to complete it, should solidify the justification that I be hereby appointed as a member in good standing with access to all honors and benefits occurring thereto.

It's like having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.....

 

16 hours ago, Crow Horse said:

Recently I’ve noticed that this happens more frequently, usually while sharing fishing stories:

 

“About 5 years ago ….…no, wait a second, that was yesterday.”

 

Time now takes on a new meaning, and it has become meaningless. 

Time goes faster and gravity gets stronger as you get older!

13 hours ago, Big Hands said:

I believe the simple fact that I don't fully understand the assignment, much less how to complete it, should solidify the justification that I be hereby appointed as a member in good standing with access to all honors and benefits occurring thereto.

Yet you used the word thereto. That sounds like an attorney word. What the heck does that even mean??😂

33 minutes ago, Lottabass said:

Time goes faster and gravity gets stronger as you get older!

 

So true. I paddled some friends out to the island on my pond for grilled brats over a campfire with 18 mph winds and gusts to 30 mph and took the pooch to the dog park for three hours of catching the Frisbee and mowed the lawn and by the end of the day, I think my arms and legs weighed a hundred pounds each.

3 hours ago, Smirak said:

Yet you used the word thereto. That sounds like an attorney word. What the heck does that even mean??😂

LOL. It's a ripoff of a scene in the movie "A Christmas Story" when Ralphie reads his letter welcoming him to the Little Orphan Annie Secret Society.

 

EDIT: Upon closer inspection of the letter Ralphie receives, the word "occurring" should actually be "accruing".

13 minutes ago, Big Hands said:

LOL. It's a ripoff of a scene in the movie "A Christmas Story" when Ralphie reads his letter welcoming him to the Little Orphan Annie Secret Society.

 

EDIT: Upon closer inspection of the letter Ralphie receives, the word "occurring" should actually be "accruing".

 

Anyone referencing Ralphie has my vote for Bass Resource Supreme Allied Admiral, should you choose to run for that esteemed office. @Glenn, of course, will always be the Grand Poobah. 

I just wanna be the leg lamp. I could die a happy man…

50 minutes ago, Smirak said:

I just wanna be the leg lamp. I could die a happy man…

 

You can buy one. I've long considered it to put it in my window at Christmas. 

to be honest, i have zero complaints.  at least i should have zero complaints.

 

i am in kicksas health.   awesome teeth, healthy body weight, and great blood numbers.   i can still put on my socks standing up, and i can get up off the floor without using my hands.  

 

age wise, i am a coot.  but i dont ever say, "kids these days..." 

37 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

awesome teeth, healthy body weight, and great blood numbers.   i can still put on my socks standing up, and i can get up off the floor without using my hands. 

 

Well done!