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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1673824" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>I have no intention of "retiring" when I retire from milk testing... I am "semi-retired" now since each year it seems another one or 2 dairies sell out, and more are not testing every month like they used to. I am 67. Not ashamed to tell my age... it is a number... but except for the knees I don't feel "old." Like Dave, I can't do what I did at 25, but until the last few years of the ankle and knees, there wasn't much that stopped me. I want to keep on doing as much as I can, just not push 20 hr days like I used to. On a cold snowy freezing morning, I want to know that I don't have a dozen bottle calves to go feed or 2 or 3 cows to go hand milk. That any feeding I have to do instead of my son, can wait til a more reasonable hour or until the downpour lets up.... That I don't have to fit it in between work hours and all that. Hoping that once the knees get fixed that I can go back some and do more things, comfortably..... Helping get the cows in, tagging baby calves again, because I used to do nearly all the calving. Being able to work the gates in the barn without it killing me to be on my feet for more than 15 minutes at a stretch. </p><p>We'll see....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1673824, member: 25884"] I have no intention of "retiring" when I retire from milk testing... I am "semi-retired" now since each year it seems another one or 2 dairies sell out, and more are not testing every month like they used to. I am 67. Not ashamed to tell my age... it is a number... but except for the knees I don't feel "old." Like Dave, I can't do what I did at 25, but until the last few years of the ankle and knees, there wasn't much that stopped me. I want to keep on doing as much as I can, just not push 20 hr days like I used to. On a cold snowy freezing morning, I want to know that I don't have a dozen bottle calves to go feed or 2 or 3 cows to go hand milk. That any feeding I have to do instead of my son, can wait til a more reasonable hour or until the downpour lets up.... That I don't have to fit it in between work hours and all that. Hoping that once the knees get fixed that I can go back some and do more things, comfortably..... Helping get the cows in, tagging baby calves again, because I used to do nearly all the calving. Being able to work the gates in the barn without it killing me to be on my feet for more than 15 minutes at a stretch. We'll see.... [/QUOTE]
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