Getting old is for the birds.
Hell, the birds don’t like it either. My knees feel like a million bucks, and my ankle feels like it has a nail in it.
Truck battery died yesterday, and I thought it had been replaced recently- the memory is certainly fresh in my mind, but it has been over three years. At least it wasn’t sleeting frozen pus.
We have a coopers hawk- or maybe a red shouldered hawk- living in the backyard. Yesterday evening it flew hard into the bedroom window, startling the beejus out of the ogwife. Thank god it didn’t make it in! Imagine being stuck in a room with a startled hawk!
I was thinking about putting some meat out in the yard, to see if it would come to it. Don’t know what the logistics of that would be.
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Had a red tail hang out in our neighborhood when I was a kid. Got to the point where he’d come down and sit with us while we feed him chicken strips. We named him Bert and that hawk hung around for five years.
My god. Right in your backyard? You’re a lucky lucky man.
I should post a vid of *my* backyard to show you the surrounding concrete…..
Aging is even less fun when your leg is held together with screws. Trust me.
I have to keep a shotgun handy when the cats are outside, due to the hawks & owls.
I was lapping the rings before mounting the scope on my new X-Bolt last evening and when I went to put the ring tops back on I couldn’t remember which one had been on the right side and which had been on the left while lapping the rings….. so I lapped ’em again. That shit used to NEVER happen.
As my dear old pappy told me one day when he was about 70 years old, “Son, gettin’ old will sure fuck a feller up.”
True dat.
Bah. Go to the pet store and buy a kitten. You can put that out there.
OG! Don’t put your meat out there! Man, that could really hurt! And I doubt he’d come to it anyway.
What????Oh, excuse me……… I thought you meant something else!
Sorry…..
Regarding not remembering when a certain thing was done to your car, especially when there are multiple cars in the family, this is what I do: I keep an Excel spreadsheet on the computer on each car with columns listing date, thing done, by what business entity, mileage, price, and with comments running off on the line to the right. It’s helpful with old cars like mine. And with a leaky memory like mine. You don’t have to shuffle through all the repair orders. You just pull up the spreadsheet and look. I include all the fixes plus oil changes.
Repair order? Nancy, are you new here? I didn’t think so. I do all this shit myself, with very rare exception.
(Giggle)
Well, Og, Nancy’s close, even if she missed the cigar…
I keep a 3-ring binder with my family’s and my friends’ cars (’cause I work on ALL OF THEM) with divider tabs, and I write down dates, mileage, and whatever the hell I did to it. I started losing my memory a good ten years ago, and I’m only 38. HAVE TO write stuff down now.
I have a family of hawks living near/around Dad’s shop; they’re cool to watch, and have probably helped keep most of the rodents out of my garden I have there. Sadly, I’m about to have to cut down one of their favorite perches – a big oak tree that died of stress last year, and is too close to the shop for me to let it fall on its own.
Funny bit about the hawks – Littlest Alex (just turned two) sees them gliding around, points, and yells “Airplane!!!” Still workin’ on details here :)
So far this year, in my yard, We;ve seen a red tail fleeing a flock of grackles with a chick in it’s claws and we got to see the actual dive-n-snatch of a robin chick from our front lawn while we were sitting on the porch. Ah, predators; natures live entertainment.