My Dad...
He'll be turning 95 on the 24th of this month. My wife and I talked with him on the phone last night and asked how his day was, what he'd been doing, etc. Well, he'd taken himself out for breakfast at his favorite restaurant and when he got home he got out his ladder, leaned it up in his plum tree, and proceeded to pick plums. It's a pretty big tree and he said he got clear up into the top for the last of the plums. The rest of the afternoon he spent taking bags of plums to all his neighbors and visiting with all of them.
Part of me is worried sick he's gonna fall and break something but part of me is proud as hell that he's still up and going.
How would you folks handle this?
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He’s 95 and still healthy enough to climb a ladder over and over again? that’s amazing!!!
Keep an eye on him but let him do what he wants.
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You don't have a say in it. He might let you know if he needs help.
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That old fella has lived a long and healthy life. I would say "you go dad, but please be careful". Call him often, and check up on him. Other than that, say a prayer for him and let him have it. Is he still in western Oregon?
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I agree with the above, Steve. He's gonna do what he wants to do anyway. 🤔
As said, I'd be Proud of him, for still being able to do that, (But) Worried sick at the same time. (Like You.)
I (and probably a bunch of us here) are in your shoes, currently.
Not much you can do.
*My Sister finally took the Car key's from my Mom, about 8 mo. ago. (Good and Bad.)
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Ask him what you should do if he fell and got hurt.
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Appreciate the input, folks. I'm starting to understand how he felt when I was a kid and was doing silly things like bull riding.
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He is part of that Greatest Generation.. Stronger than new rope
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NeoBlackdog, What will be will be. Last thing my Dad said to me at age 88, "Son I wish we could go hunting/fishing one more time." God bless your Dad. --------------------------Ray
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Tell him to send me plums. We don't have any this year.
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Lady Rae: 30059972717723/comments/30060040676635
Tell him to send me plums. We don't have any this year.
I would but he gave them all away to his neighbors yesterday! He said he had more plums on that tree than he can remember seeing in 30 years.
He's about 5.5 hours North of you in the Medford area. Next year you can head up there and pick his tree clean before he gets up on his ladder!
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NeoBlackdog: 30059972717723/comments/30060025346971
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11409868#Comment_11409868
I would but he gave them all away to his neighbors yesterday! He said he had more plums on that tree than he can remember seeing in 30 years.
He's about 5.5 hours North of you in the Medford area. Next year you can head up there and pick his tree clean before he gets up on his ladder!
I will!❤️
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What's been said, absolutely.
What a great guy. Wish I have that energy at that age, cause I don't have it now.
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Let's just go with Proud ........
Good for him.
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I borrowed my aunt's ladder & only returned it when I could do the work.
Now my (feeble) 97 yo mother has a need to go up & down stairs when I'm not there . Can't take out a flight of stairs.😟
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Speaking of Dad's and ladders
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We are (several of us) all in the Hospital room with my Mom just now. I relayed your situation and we all just shook our heads. We all agreed, you can make suggestions, but they are going to do what they want to do.
God Bless.
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He sounds like my grandfather. He was 90 years old and decided to go out and trim his apple trees. He leaned the ladder up against the limb to cut it off, the limb fell off along with him and he spent the next 2 months in bed with a broken leg.
Joe
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Lady Rae: 30059972717723/comments/30060010489371
Speaking of Dad's and ladders
https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/IHS8UZ9BFA4D/img-20230818-160325086-hdr.jpg
https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/50QGPN3P4EG6/img-20230818-160343532-hdr.jpg
There ya go ,,,,,,,
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Is he gonna do a flip and land in that shrub below? Or tightrope walk across that power line?
Don't leave us hanging! What's he gonna do next?
😁
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KL: 30059972717723/comments/30060043141659
Is he gonna do a flip and land in that shrub below? Or tightrope walk across that power line?
Don't leave us hanging! What's he gonna do next?
😁
how would she know, she has her eyes closed.........
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Lady Rae: 30059972717723/comments/30060010489371
Speaking of Dad's and ladders
https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/IHS8UZ9BFA4D/img-20230818-160325086-hdr.jpg
https://us.v-cdn.net/6031683/uploads/50QGPN3P4EG6/img-20230818-160343532-hdr.jpg
You and my daughter should talk.. She and my wife are constantly getting on me about my home repair aerial acrobatics
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Your dad is truly amazing. Different generation. They ask for nothing and give everything. Much respect for your dad. Oakie
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KL: 30059972717723/comments/30060043141659
Is he gonna do a flip and land in that shrub below? Or tightrope walk across that power line?
Don't leave us hanging! What's he gonna do next?
😁
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Well, at least now, he is laying on the ladder. 🤔😉😂🤣
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@...: 30059972717723/comments/30060028616475
Well, at least now, he is laying on the ladder. 🤔😉😂🤣
Tough as nails, that guy! Doing pushups on a gravity defying ladder. is there anything he can't do???
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Dang it, I knew I should have thrown in my joke about "doing pushups."
See, similar sense of humor. 🤔
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KL: 30059972717723/comments/30059996626459
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11410156#Comment_11410156
Tough as nails, that guy! Doing pushups on a gravity defying ladder. is there anything he can't do???
Yes my daddy is💕 there used to be nothing he couldn't do.
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At 95 my paternal grandfather fell and broke his leg (late '1980's). They put in a pin and it started bothering him sometime later so they scheduled surgery to take it out.
As he was being wheeled into surgery the OR nurse was checking his records and didn't see anything about heart trouble so to be sure she leaned over and asked him if he'd ever had any heart trouble.
"No, honey," he answered, "But if you get a little closer I can always start."
Yeah, he was a character. we lost him just shy of his 102 birthday.
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