An unmistakable sign of age, but...

[ladyVet]

57. I can understand your reasoning. I'm heading towards sixty faster and faster,

and physically this old not-gray-yet mare just ain't what she used to be.

This reminds me of a story about my great-uncle, who was found up on his roof fixing something (loose shingle, I think) when some family members dropped by to visit. He was in his nineties, lived alone in the house he and his late wife raised their family in. He still did all the work around the house, needed no care of any sort -- and seldom, if ever went to the doctor. He lived until he was 96, all of his siblings living well into their ninth decade.

As a child, I used to visit my paternal greatgrandmother, who was in her nineties and lived with her brother, also in his nineties. Their spouses had died years previously.

I can only hope to do half as well.