Slow Work When You Are Old:

 Mountains get some pretty bad wind and  we certainly have our share. For us the wind means work and when you are over 80 years old the work goes very very slow. 

We struggled to get this heavy 40' ladder on the garage. When you have arthritis going up and down that ladder really aggravates those painful joints. We have been working on replacing shingles on the garage roof for several days. We are down to about 10 more shingles to be replaced.  

I tried to find someone to replace the shingles but no-one wanted a small job of replacing 20+ shingles. So we are having to do the job ourselves.  Handy men don't want small jobs and with so much work available small jobs are rejected. 

I have been trying to get the Kubota dealer to service our tractor for over three weeks and all I get is promises. I sure hate to crawl under the tractor to change the hydraulic oil and engine oil but I may end up doing that as well. "We'll be out next week," is getting old to hear. Been a member of the co-op  for almost 30 years and the service has diminished from when I first joined and bought 3 tractors and numerous implements from them. Things certainly have changed over the years, and not for the better.