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I know what you mean--I do stretch every morning. And the 
homestead and animals give me plenty of exercise. I used 
to be as athletic as they come. It's not so much age, but 
fibromyalgia and arthritis make ordinary movements 
(especially repetitive ones) more difficult for me now. 
They come and go, I try not to let them get the best of 
me, but having the raised bed edge makes gardening tasks 
seem less daunting when I don't feel that great.


On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:43:02 EDT
 Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > > As we get older we appreciate not having to bend so 
> > far and being able to sit on them to do our planting and 
> > weeding. 
>
>
> Different approaches to the same reality, I suppose. 
> I've always thought 
> that the older I get, the more I need to be doing some 
> bending and stretching.  
> Not so many years ago I could feel some inflexibility 
> setting in and it 
> occurred to me that in a lot of ordinary tasks there was 
> the accomodating way and the 
> stretch way to do it.  I began to favor the stretch way 
> with a lot of 
> creaking and groans and now I'm not quite so inflexible.
>
> I know, I know, but before anyone my senior warns me 
> that my day is coming, 
> I've been able to pinpoint that date by analyzing all 
> the advice I've been 
> given over the years.  It's about five to seven years 
> from whatever age I happen 
> to be.  When I was twenty-five, it was 'just wait until 
> your thirties!  Boy, 
> then, it's going to catch up with your!  Then fourty and 
> fourty-five, then 
> fifty, then fifty five.   Hasn't caught up yet so I'm 
> going to keep stretching, 
> groaning and creaking from time to time, perhaps, but I 
> figure it's use it or 
> lose it.   </HTML>
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