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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 30, 2008, at 4:43 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> 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>

Mother is now 94, has been gardening all her life. She bends over to  
tend ground plants.

I love gardening so much that I am preparing for any eventuality.