I have been wondering that to. I check in once in a while and there are very few new posts. I,m not on very much as i sold my 51. My knees and back told me its time i started acting my age .
Hey: you are right It has been a long time since I was here.. major life changes have occurred in my life.. My wife had been diagnosed with dementia and had to got into long term care after I was unable to take proper care of her.. She passed away in Oct 23, I had to sell my place and shop in the country.. Just to much work and living alone in the country became to much for me.. I sold the farm/shop and moved to town In St.Marys, I now have a small shop in town . I am grateful that I do have a smaller 30 by 30 heated floor shop with a smaller attached bay for my wife's PT cruiser that I still have as well as my Ford coupe.. Have not driven either since she passed.. been two years now and l have kinda lost the fire since.. been doing a lot of fixing and trying to adjust to my place in town and my new life living alone, My mom passed away in May 24, My kid brother passed in Feb/21 and life has just not been the same, arthritis has has been nagging away and I had a full knee replacement and that worked out great no more knee pain but not much they can do for ankles so I still have a hard time walking a lot some day's.. .. life has just changed and things are a bit harder than they used to be.. right now my shop here is packed with all my junk mostly still in totes packed all over in my shop.. I have been diagnosed with A-fib and while I don't feel anything over that, I walk about 10,000 steps pretty much every day and do an hour work out every morning on my Nordic track stationary bike and some weight lifting to improve my own health.. I am coming along pretty good now and getting healthier.. have not seen a Dr in a year now and have no plans to do so any time soon.. I don't like them . I think they like to keep me sick like a make work project for them.. I feel better not seeing one.. Have not driven my car in three years . my apologies to everyone.. Life has been really hard for the last few years and it seems like it's hard to break out of the rut I fell into.. I am working to dig my way back to a new life without my wife of 60 years Diane, also so many friends and family have had similar events in their lives that changed the dynamics in their world in the last few years .. things just kind of fell apart and the rebuilding has been harder and taking longer and been lonelier than I thought.. In my 80s now and l guess I am slowing down not much of a partier anymore and have not been active at all with any car stuff or even out to see anybody or any car events.. I have slowly just turned into a reclusive, old hermit home body.. Seems like my days have become doing house work, laundry, cooking and making my own meals, yard work to maintain and improve the new place to me and getting adjusted to my new life and it's just slower.. really just don't know where I am going these days Getting old SUCKS!!!!! I will try to get some more time on here again I am hoping to see others pick up and see if this place can come back alive.. but all I can say is "**** Happens" all the best to all my friends here and thanks for checkin in here and wondering what ever happened to the old fat guy..
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Wow Chuck. You have managed to get yourself into quite a situation. What you have gone through is not easy for sure. Glad you came here and let us know what is happening. I can see it being hard, esp. if you are not up to being involved in the hot rod seen. it is good to see you looking after your health, getting some exercise, etc. I have not been here as often as there has not been any activity. We all need to work within what God has given us today. As long as you are doing that, nothing more can be expected of anyone.
Thanks for the update.
