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How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)

Posted by Trish on September 24, 2026, 3:34 pm

It occurs to me that these last few years feel more exhausting with the constant ups and downs, and changes all around us.

What do you do when you feel your tank on empty

Music, mostly.

Posted by 7:77 on September 25, 2026, 3:27 pm, in reply to "How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)"

Sometimes I play it, sometimes I listen to it, sometimes I just argue about it online.

Also:

* fishing
* cycling
* anime
* (situationally-dependent: wintertime and I'm at my Sapporo house) going out after a fresh snowfall into the cold, still air

I ask the Lord to help me be grateful. L

Posted by BornToFarm on September 25, 2026, 9:41 am, in reply to "How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)"

I am grateful for who He is and who I am. I am also grateful for where He put me on this earth and who He put me with.

When I am grateful, I find that I have an abundance of energy because my future is assured. Do I have down times? Of course, but if my heart and head are right, that doesn't last long.

Gratitude is powerful. Great reminder

Posted by Trish on September 25, 2026, 10:35 am, in reply to "I ask the Lord to help me be grateful. L"

Re: Gratitude is powerful. Great reminder

Posted by Christopher Blackwell on September 25, 2026, 7:16 pm, in reply to "Gratitude is powerful. Great reminder"

I am always amazed to still be here. In spite of the health issues, I am well aware of my good fortune that I still have including the fact I can still live in my home and still run the shop. Now that may end at some point. So be it, no complaints.

Complaining can be healthy. I enjoy it.

Posted by GOG on September 25, 2026, 8:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Gratitude is powerful. Great reminder"

Constructive complaining is OK ... but sniveling is not allowed ;)

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on September 26, 2026, 9:17 pm, in reply to "Complaining can be healthy. I enjoy it. "

Me, too!

Posted by observer on September 25, 2026, 10:13 am, in reply to "I ask the Lord to help me be grateful. L"

Focus is key! What we put/allow in our minds makes all the difference. Gratitude and joy are primary. Even when the going is tough there’s much to be thankful for. Fresh air, exercise, time with friends and family, are all healthy, too, and are good at helping the mind be healthy!

I love listening to hymns, also. They offer so much!

I no longer have an abundance of energy, but I do have sufficient energy. I’m grateful for that!

Re: How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)

Posted by Gustavo on September 25, 2026, 3:12 am, in reply to "How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)"

What kind of diet are you following?

no named diet

Posted by Trish on September 25, 2026, 7:39 am, in reply to "Re: How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)"

my eating changes from day to day. Yesterday it was cantaloupe, a dill-cucumber salad, and an egg roll. Today, the other half of the cantaloupe and kielbasa for lunch... not sure about dinner.

Good way to lose weight.

Posted by GOG on September 25, 2026, 9:54 am, in reply to "no named diet"

I do a fruit blender drink each morning. This morning was water melon, mandarin orange, banana, yogurt, maple syrup, and a vitamin. Taken with three little pills that keep my heart at a steady pace.

You need to eat better

Posted by Gustavo on September 25, 2026, 7:46 am, in reply to "no named diet"

especially breakfast

I have a very idle lifestyle due to illness

Posted by trish on September 25, 2026, 10:36 am, in reply to "You need to eat better"

so I can't go whole hog on meals (let alone aford them)

Re: I have a very idle lifestyle due to illness

Posted by Christopher Blackwell on September 25, 2026, 7:31 pm, in reply to "I have a very idle lifestyle due to illness"

Triss, know what you mean for the same reason. Dropped down to 155 pounds, where I used to stay round between 175 to 185. So much for the lack of much energy for anything requiring physical work. The fight now is to maintain as much independence for as long as possible. Probably a common fight for a great number of our older members.

For two days this week I stacked firewood and cut up kindling.

Posted by GOG on September 25, 2026, 8:59 pm, in reply to "Re: I have a very idle lifestyle due to illness"

Don’t have the same energy but still enjoy doing the work. Winter is approaching. Snow and ice. I’ve fallen several times. I’m spending less time up here due to taking an apartment. A move to par down, start packing up here, get rid of possessions, and in general plotting my exit from this mortal core. And happy, too.

This scientist proved that walking through a forest is good for your health:

Posted by Ken C on September 24, 2026, 8:34 pm, in reply to "How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_therapy

At eighty, little energy left.

Posted by Christopher Blackwell on September 24, 2026, 7:16 pm, in reply to "How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)"

I start tired and move to exaustion daily. Not much I can still do physically, basically housebound, walking, even with using a walker, I am limited to a few hundred feet. I would not be able to walk the A perimeter of my three and a quarter arres. Hearing eyesight are limited and failing eventually I will not be able to read my monitor just as I can no longer read books or newspapers.

I enjoy whatever I can still do, I still can live mostly at home, with a paid drivers cand still take care of shopping.I feed and water the visitng birds and small animals.

I still run my shop and its visiters a
and customers gives me a bit of a social life and those people seem to enjoy me, often different generations of visiting families over the last forty years.

My computer allows me to keep up with things that I still enjoy. Some of my online friends were first letter friends for a decade to as much as twenty or more years.

I also have my cat.

So I get by and still have a few thingd that I enjoy.

Batteries. We are recharged during sleep. I take a nap every day.

Posted by GOG on September 24, 2026, 8:32 pm, in reply to "At eighty, little energy left."

Groggy upon awakening. But soon enough I’m alert and re-energized. However the recharge does not last as long. Soon enough there will be no recharge. A dead battery. Your post just reminded me to take my two pills. Whoever said that BS about growing old gracefully?

Re: Batteries. We are recharged during sleep. I take a nap every day.

Posted by Christopher Blackwell on September 25, 2026, 6:21 am, in reply to "Batteries. We are recharged during sleep. I take a nap every day. "

I sleep nine or ten hours a night. My naps are an hour or more each and it vary between one, two, or three naps a day. We age differently and no way to know how each will age. The main thing is to focus on what we still can do, and on what we still can enjoy.

Working in a nursing home taught me how useless complaining and moaning about it is. Meanwhile a sense of humor is a great help in dealing with aging.

Re: Batteries. We are recharged during sleep. I take a nap every day.

Posted by Gustavo on September 25, 2026, 6:31 am, in reply to "Re: Batteries. We are recharged during sleep. I take a nap every day. "

What foods you eat is very important.

I go to beaches and mountains

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on September 24, 2026, 5:45 pm, in reply to "How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)"

I like sitting in the park near me.

Posted by Ken C on September 24, 2026, 4:10 pm, in reply to "How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)"

I can take off my shoes, and sit there barefoot resting and planning for my future.

I also like driving. I drive around a crowded city for work. Sometimes I drive in the mountains or desert for fun to get away from the crowds and traffic.

So did the ...

Posted by Mondo Fuego™ on September 25, 2026, 8:51 am, in reply to "I like sitting in the park near me. "

... Zodiac Killer 🤪

If we were still hunter-gatherers we could spend 8 hours per day resting under shady trees,

Posted by Ken C on September 24, 2026, 4:27 pm, in reply to "I like sitting in the park near me. "

talking and laughing with our friends and family.

Maybe it's still human nature to need to rest and recharge near trees and grass. See my thread below.

Maybe. But forget going back to those days of subsistence.

Posted by GOG on September 24, 2026, 8:35 pm, in reply to "If we were still hunter-gatherers we could spend 8 hours per day resting under shady trees,"

Humankind has destroyed an estimated 68% of all wildlife on earth. We now depend on feedlots referred to as the grocery store. Out on a limb….

You are aging. Take a nap.

Posted by GOG on September 24, 2026, 3:40 pm, in reply to "How do you refuel (nothing to do with gas prices)"

Grab you a fishing pole

Posted by Lucky on September 24, 2026, 5:50 pm, in reply to "You are aging. Take a nap."

It is fun and a good meal

Having gotten older, I’ve turned away from killing wild creatures

Posted by GOG on September 24, 2026, 8:21 pm, in reply to "Grab you a fishing pole "

for food. The grocery store will suffice. I regret killing fish I’ve eaten. Might seem a silly consideration. But then again, I’ll save a drowning earthworm. Life is sacred. As I understand it, the American Indians apologized to the animal for killing it.

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