Rod Speed wrote:
And while you may not be as capable of as much physical work
at 70 as you are at Adam's current age, many who are 70 can
still get more work done right than plenty of 20 year olds too.

What's really annoying is knowing that I will have to start
paying people to do the work that I frustratingly want to
tell myself that I /can/ do, but have to persuade myself to
accept that while I /know/ how to do it I can't /physically/
so it. Two weeks ago I almost passed out plastering a low
ceiling (lots of bending and kneeling) and sheepishly asked
the plumber I had in if he could finish it off for me.

It's a blow to the ego (and the pocket) to have to pay
somebody else to do "your job", especially if you find
youself standing over them and saying, no, don't do that,
look, do it this way, arghh! me knees!, etc.

JGH