>A strapping young lad, such as yourself, shouldn't have trouble lifting the kayaks up there using a short stool. {:o) <

Ira, I thought at first you might be talking to someone else (Who? Me? "Strapping young lad"?). Then I spent a few minutes with Webster's and came away with a new way of seeing myself. Strapping, I found, was a colloquialism for"tall and well-built; robust". (6'2", 230? ). Young didn't seem to fit my chronological age (55) unless you're viewing it from an even more ancient perspective, but I found that it could also mean "lately begun; not advanced or developed; in an early stage". You got that right. And lad, I found, could mean "any man; fellow; familiar or endearing term". So strapping young lad? Surely. Still, I'm looking for an alternative to overhead lifting if it's possible. Mike