Post by haecklers on Apr 24, 2014 7:16:47 GMT -5
Yesterday I pulled up some landscaping fabric so I could replace a dead bush - NEVER use landscaping fabric because after so many years it's got roots going all through it, pinning it down but you still can't dig a hole through the darn stuff! I hated it so much I cleared a circle 6' across of the darn stuff. Then I dug some hosta that had been planted in full sun and put them along the wall behind where the bush will be (it's a little one so far so they can live there a few years).
Then I mowed the fruit orchard with the push mower so I could bag the clippings and feed them to the pigs that are penned off the pasture (4 pens of them = 4 heavy bags of grass to carry over and dump).
Since I had the mower out, I decided to mow around the pond, and to cut some new territory through the thick clumps of grass that never got mowed last year.
Then I moved the one pig pen over, so I had to pound in some T-posts. And when I planted the new shrub, I decided to fence that off to protect it from the dogs, so that's 5 more t-posts I had to pound in. While I was at it, I removed some fence from the garden, mowed the grass that had grown up under it, then put it back.
Plus all the normal farm chores, like carrying 4 buckets of soaked oats to the pigs, dumping their pools and refilling them, etc. & a bunch of other stuff.
I didn't injure anything, and my muscles aren't sore, they just don't want to do anything today! Like I used up the energy in them. But I've got a list of things to do today, and I need to get moving.
So what do you "real" farmers do when your muscles are kaput and you have to whip them into more labor? Any remedies to re-energize?
Then I mowed the fruit orchard with the push mower so I could bag the clippings and feed them to the pigs that are penned off the pasture (4 pens of them = 4 heavy bags of grass to carry over and dump).
Since I had the mower out, I decided to mow around the pond, and to cut some new territory through the thick clumps of grass that never got mowed last year.
Then I moved the one pig pen over, so I had to pound in some T-posts. And when I planted the new shrub, I decided to fence that off to protect it from the dogs, so that's 5 more t-posts I had to pound in. While I was at it, I removed some fence from the garden, mowed the grass that had grown up under it, then put it back.
Plus all the normal farm chores, like carrying 4 buckets of soaked oats to the pigs, dumping their pools and refilling them, etc. & a bunch of other stuff.
I didn't injure anything, and my muscles aren't sore, they just don't want to do anything today! Like I used up the energy in them. But I've got a list of things to do today, and I need to get moving.
So what do you "real" farmers do when your muscles are kaput and you have to whip them into more labor? Any remedies to re-energize?