The Lake in Winter

[Doug T.]

Hi All!
Major accomplishment for me today! I'm a very large guy, and haven't been able to walk much the last couple of years ( bad knees).
I've determined that the only recourse is to eat less, get off my keester, and start walking.
That being said, I grabbed my camera, drove to the lake ( too far to walk from here ), and walked around it. That's a distance of ca. 3 miles.
I did it! My knees hurt some, but not as bad as I thought they would.
Anyway, I got off some shots and will post them as I get time.

I thought this would look better in B&W.

I feel good ;D

Doug

[mickeyobe]

Doug,

Very, very nice for a guy with wonky (Medical terminology) knees.

Mickey

[daveh]

Doug,

You don't sound big - that's not the picture I had of you at all. The forum is radio, rather than television: one has an idea of what people are like but often not the certainty.

The bottom half makes a good photo on its own: the top half too.

Dave.

altered to put the 'u' in forum.

[Doug T.]

Thanks guys!
I weighed 200lbs. up till ten years ago. Quit smoking and took up eating instead
Now I've managed to get up to 304 and am 6'1" tall.
I'll lose the weight, and am shrinking anyway, so I'm good.

Doug

[daveh]

I am just about on 6' (at least I was - I'm shrinking height-wise now). I've never got about about 12 ³/₄ stone - 180 lbs or thereabouts. Perhaps one of the benefits of never having smoked is that I haven't had to give up.


One of the good points of being 6' is that my fingertip-to-fingertip arm span is also 6' - fingertip to elbow is 18" (a cubit in old (biblical) money). I have always been able to measure things pretty accurately without a tape measure.

[Just Plain Curt]

Doug, we must be twins. I'm 6 ft. and at 300 myself. Plus the bad knees. Had both scoped 3x each so far and they want to give me replacements but I'm too stubborn.

[mickeyobe]

Doug and Curt,

I tried for 6' but only managed 5'9".
I wasn't overweight.
But my right knee caused me great agony.
That was about 15 years ago.
My total waiting time was four miserable years.
Now it is down to a few months.

The point is, from the time I lay down on the operating table and they inserted a little needle into the back of my hand the agony ceased. That knee has been pain free ever since.

I was not stubborn. I was terrified of being sliced open.
A groundless fear. I actually enjoyed my short hospital stay.

Mickey