Question for you 50 year olds

[mjhaverkamp]

I guess as long as I can climb up in a tree and pull that 70lb Reezen back I am good to go for awhile, thanks guys and good luck this weekend, I am out, my wife is throwing me a big surprise party that I am not supposed to know about.

About that party, it lasted until 4 this morning, it was a great party but......... now I feel more like 60 !

[Bill]

[QUOTE=Foo_Dog;1924114]I turn 58 this Thursday, no meds required yet. I still feel 30ish until I look in the mirror. I'm not a grandfather but my Dad used to say that being a grandfather was no big deal, it was the thought of being married to a Grandmother that hurt.[/QUOTE]

That's exactly what my Dad said when our son was born, 1st grandchild.

[Mudslinger]

I am 56 and all I can say is "it is he## getting old!"

The thing i noticed the most was that after hitting the big 50, my skin, especially on my arms and back of my hands started getting thin and when you bumped one, it either bruised or bleed like a stuck hog.

[passing thru]

You know your old when you set down to take a bath and your sack starts to float!

[Wudstix]

I turned 51 in August. Still shoot my 63# longbow and 67# reurve. Try to stay in shape but it gets tougher with two jobs and volunteer work keeping me busy. Don't use chain-on stands as much as I used to. Ladders and tripods work fine. Box blinds are starting to look good too.

[TX_Kevin]

I think it was an Andy Capp cartoon that said "You're still young if the morning after the night before still makes the night before worth the morning after." Some of you fellers may have to read that twice...

Ok, so no one else has said it "Happy birthday!"

[Red Wing R/C]

Hope you have many more..........

[Leonhogboy]

Happy belated Birthday. How did I miss this old man thread. Oh that's right, I spent 14 hours this weekend, sitting on a bucket 15 foot up in a tree. My back tells me I'm 55.



...................but some things still make me feel like a kid.

[Pablo]

I turned 50 today, I feel about the way I did when I turned 30, getting old stinks but I guess it beats the alternative, is it really all down hill from here or is 50 really the new 39 ?

Belated Happy Birthday mjhaverkamp.

Flippin 54 next Sunday. I don't think that 50 is the new 39, but if you keep the weight off and the aerobics up, I think that a body age of low 40's is possible. Hell, there are folk that are 40 something that have a body age of 50 something.

The key is to keep in shape best you can mentally and physically.

What's cool is that when you are this age:

1. You can still think young and pretty much hang with those much younger
2. You have more $$$ (more play toys and more hunt-fish-vacation events)
3. Your kids are out of the house or mostly so... LOL.
4. Said kids are perhaps about to have kiddoes so..... being a Grandad who helps turn the grandkids on to hunting-fishing can be a great time also.

Live in the moment . . .

This is prime time!

[georgec]

I've been 50 for a few years....still can't remember if I was at Woodstock or not!

If you were you were prolly with your parents.

[quarterback]

Say it with me people: 50 IS THE NEW 30. And keep telling yourselves that.

Happy birthday all!

[don groseclose]

When I was growing up I thought 50 was a old man but I am 67 and thank 85 is old man. I feel like I am 40 now but you can't do as much as you once could.

[don groseclose]

When I was growing up I thought 50 was a old man. I am 67 now and thank 85 is a old man. I feel like I am 40 now but you can't what you once could.