The problem with getting older, besides just getting older, is putting up with change. Some change is an improvement, some just plain old advertising, and some plain old unnecessary.

I worked up some sayings over the years.

"Nine out of ten things, in a hunting magazine or a hunter's internet site, has nothing to do with me, or my hunting."

"Pay cash, instead of credit, on your hobby, and you find you can enjoy it too."

"I can't buy everything in the sporting goods store, so somehow I can survive it."

Last week I made a hike in a park. I wore some old clothes from the decades past. I wore twenty year old polyethylene underwear, some wool socks, a wool pair of pants, a duck down parka, a hand warmer fueled by lighter fluid, and a still wearable 41 year old Shetland wool sweater.

In fact, I had too many clothes on. I had to sit down at some park benches in the 20 degree, in the teens with wind chill, just so I wouldn't work up a sweat.

I sat and looked around at the quiet. Not even a newbie with a high tech winter outfit.