{"id":35672,"date":"2019-02-26T03:01:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T03:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35672"},"modified":"2019-02-26T03:01:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T03:01:44","slug":"those-movers-they-make-me-feel-older-than-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35672","title":{"rendered":"Those movers; they make me feel older than I am"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/growing-old-fb.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35673\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/growing-old-fb-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/growing-old-fb-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/growing-old-fb-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/growing-old-fb-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/growing-old-fb.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you want to know the quickest, most sure-fire way to feel old beyond your years?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you how. Watch three young men heft and heave your possessions around as you move from one residence to the next one.<\/p>\n<p>I had that treat today. We moved from Fairview to Princeton. These three youngsters showed up driving a pickup hauling a 32-foot trailer. They were 25, 26 and 28 years <em>young<\/em>. They work by the hour. But . . . they didn&#8217;t dawdle. Not for an instant.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, they put on an impressive display of stamina, brawn and, yes, brains as they pondered how to move furniture down the hall, through the doors, onto the trailer &#8212; and then back off the trailer and into the new digs.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was only &#8220;yesterday&#8221; that I could do all of that. I once was proud of the physical stamina I possessed. I long ago, however, conceded that, yep, I&#8217;m getting too long in the tooth to do a lot of the things I used to do.<\/p>\n<p>Muscling furniture around is one of those things. Sure, I can move a couch from one end of the living room to the other, per my wife&#8217;s instruction. I can even maneuver into another room. What I witnessed today was something I no longer recognize in myself.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;re ensconced in our &#8220;forever home.&#8221; We have work to do yet to make it totally comfortable. Too many boxes are laying around with things in them. We need to find their places. We&#8217;ll get it done.<\/p>\n<p>I am tired tonight just <em>watching<\/em> those young men do what they do.<\/p>\n<p>They wore me out.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want to know the quickest, most sure-fire way to feel old beyond your years? I&#8217;ll tell you how. Watch three young men heft and heave your possessions around as you move from one residence to the next one. I had that treat today. We moved from Fairview to Princeton. 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