[xelasnave]

Well perhaps a little off track here for me Glen but I would like to share my thoughts on how you can just keep on going.

Probably I became aware of how folk write themselves off very early as a result of real estate sales...so many people have it in their heads that at 55 they must downsize their home and start setting up for low maintenance living... which is OK but along with that their attitude changes greatly...

For myself I just will not give up...and really I could...building the observatory as a cripple seems impossible but you just have to work with what you have ..I could lay on my stomach to nail the floor..If I had to as to use my knees it was incredibly painful so laying on my stomach avoided that pain... Sure it is as slow but it got done...and months but note...patience is key...most jobs I get 15 minutes max and then its lay down for up to two hours .... Well even at that rate I still get five hours in a day and that translates to 30 hours in a week minimum...and over a year I just get stuff done...lifting ain't on but to get a genny or fire pump in the car I build a ramp, slide it up...then a series of boards to lower it in and to get it out...once I could lift it in and out but now it can be 30 minutes with two or three rests...more actually..but with patience it gets done...now so many folk can not move to engenuity rest and patience...

AND dont give up..my motor system had at least 12 pull downs ( two motors four bolts..on off on off etc etc) before I scrapped that system and set out to make an untried gate system work...talk about trial and error ... And even now it opens only half what I really wanted due to a bend that I have yet to sort out ..one day maybe...after I recover from cancer....but the fact is I can image within 15 minutes of opening the door ..opening the roof with a push button and sitting in a luxury chair running everything on my phone... All done in small bites and never saying I am too old or not strong enough etc.

Also as an old person not to live in the past...I want latest stuff...
Just think of the folk my age who do not even have a mobile phone...I have lectures world wide from the leaders in their fields and can study molecular biology or any science I can name name free...

Sure its harder...like learning astro photography is a rather big challenge but I dont give in...always a week later after hitting a brick wall I have found a solution by being patient and solve that one to continue my journey...

AND the boat was a challenge but I found even though I could not stand up on it or even on the jetty that I could crawl to something to use to climb up and well I am standing ...thats the goal...and not to worry about appearances...do what you must so as to get that last drop out of life.

I have one scope that is too big for me to lift so I get someone to lift...so I will get to use that big scope..

alex