Not too shabby ...

[DuaeGuttae]

... for an eighty-two-year-old woman with torn rotator cuffs.

My mom sent me the picture because she liked the shadows. I thought you might like to see the bucking and hauling and splitting she’s been doing the past couple of months after she replaced her chainsaw.

She’s got plenty of seasoned stuff behind and around the back.

She has slowed down a little and just sold her sheep. She also has been hearing the gas furnace come on occasionally in the wee hours of the morning, and she lets it. She still heats mostly with the old Lange she bought forty some years ago.

It is my aspiration one day to be just one quarter of the woman that my mother is!

 

[MissMac]

awesome.

 

[heavy hammer]

My grandmother was like that she would go out to her pasture to collect small sticks just for kindling, she had a monster of a stove she burned in. She would stack her wood on the back porch made it easier for her to get as she got older. Had an 8 acre farm, even in her 80's she would climb that ladder to get in the hay loft for bales for the goats horses etc. They just don't make them like that anymore. Tough as nails!

 

[pjohnson]

That's impressive for anyone 82 years old. Beats my wood pile and she's got 20 years on me

 

[ohlongarm]

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... for an eighty-two-year-old woman with torn rotator cuffs.

My mom sent me the picture because she liked the shadows. I thought you might like to see the bucking and hauling and splitting she’s been doing the past couple of months after she replaced her chainsaw.

She’s got plenty of seasoned stuff behind and around the back.

She has slowed down a little and just sold her sheep. She also has been hearing the gas furnace come on occasionally in the wee hours of the morning, and she lets it. She still heats mostly with the old Lange she bought forty some years ago.

It is my aspiration one day to be just one quarter of the woman that my mother is!

Regards to your mother she is great.

 

[StihlKicking]

What an inspiration!

 

[Eureka]

That’s a tough old gal

 

[PA. Woodsman]

That is incredible, God Bless her.......that woodpile looks better than what I see most young men put up, unbelievable and great for her, I hope she keeps going as long as she wants to!

 

[Jags]

Outstanding.
Some of them old birds still have lots of flight left in them. My mother is 81 years old and downloads music from iTunes to burn CDs that she takes to teach line dancing twice a week. GO mom.

 

[DuaeGuttae]

Thanks, all. I read your replies to my mother over the phone. She enjoyed them and said she appreciates the encouragement.

@heavyhammer, “tough as nails” is right. I don’t think she would have sold her sheep if it hadn’t been for a dog attack this fall that killed some pregnant ewes and caused others to lose their lambs. She does admit that she’s enjoying the freedom, though she is talking about getting back into beekeeping this spring.

@Jags, the anecdote about your grandmother made me smile. That kind of technology is not my mom’s strong point. She’s much better at sharpening chains with her hand file.

 

[Jags]

That is actually my mother, at 81 my grandmother would have run circles around her. She made it to 98 and her sister made it to 104.
The whole tech thing isn’t really a strong point for mom either, but I am a retired (early retirement) computer dude and willing to spend the time to work with her (because she really likes to line dance).

PS - I think it is very cool that your mom hand files her own chainsaw chains.