Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fallowturn Moon<\/p>\n
Unanticipated consequences. \u00a0Kate’s upper body, shoulders and neck, screamed at her yesterday and are still doing it today. \u00a0Why? \u00a0She’s had to do all the (more or less) heavy lifting since my surgery. \u00a0One of my jobs in our marriage is to do the heavy lifting, literally. Now, I have my limits, too, of course, but they’re much higher than Kate’s. \u00a0 \u00a0 Singapore<\/a><\/p>\n We’ve had to buy dogfood in 20 pound bags rather than 35 so I can carry it. \u00a0I made sure the water softener got it in, finally, before the surgery. \u00a040 pounds per bag. \u00a0When Kate weeds, she takes the plant out roots, soil and all. \u00a0Puts them in plastic buckets. \u00a0They get heavy quick. \u00a0She had to empty her own this past month, using smaller buckets to empty the larger one. \u00a0I had the surgery in late September to be sure I could move honey supers if I needed to. \u00a0No need this year, unfortunately.<\/p>\n There’s also laundry and groceries. \u00a0Various items to take up and down stairs. \u00a0We’re done with our Excalibur (geesh) food dryer so it goes back in the basement. \u00a0Jars of canned tomatoes, peaches, apple butter go down, too.<\/p>\n Today I’m going to split a bag of composted manure in half so I can carry it down to the bed where I’m to plant the lilies and iris I have left to put in the ground. \u00a0I’ll be glad when this is done and I can get back to doing all these things plus my resistance work. \u00a0One more week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fallowturn Moon Unanticipated consequences. \u00a0Kate’s upper body, shoulders and neck, screamed at her yesterday and … Continue reading Heavy Lifting<\/span>
![Singapore<\/a><\/p>\nWe’ve had to buy dogfood in 20 pound bags rather than 35 so I can carry it. \u00a0I made sure the water softener got it in, finally, before the surgery. \u00a040 pounds per bag. \u00a0When Kate weeds, she takes the plant out roots, soil and all. \u00a0Puts them in plastic buckets. \u00a0They get heavy quick. \u00a0She had to empty her own this past month, using smaller buckets to empty the larger one. \u00a0I had the surgery in late September to be sure I could move honey supers if I needed to. \u00a0No need this year, unfortunately.<\/p>\nThere’s also laundry and groceries. \u00a0Various items to take up and down stairs. \u00a0We’re done with our Excalibur (geesh) food dryer so it goes back in the basement. \u00a0Jars of canned tomatoes, peaches, apple butter go down, too.<\/p>\nToday I’m going to split a bag of composted manure in half so I can carry it down to the bed where I’m to plant the lilies and iris I have left to put in the ground. \u00a0I’ll be glad when this is done and I can get back to doing all these things plus my resistance work. \u00a0One more week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Fallowturn Moon Unanticipated consequences. \u00a0Kate’s upper body, shoulders and neck, screamed at her yesterday and … Continue reading Heavy Lifting<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,65,87,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-family","category-garden","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35956,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16868\/revisions\/35956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.ookii.org\/post\/singapore\/images\/126_heavy_lifting.jpg.aspx\"){kind=link}