Heavy Lifting

[poliphilo]

There's only so much heavy lifting I can do in a day. I've never had much stamina. Once- in my twenties- I tried to keep pace with a couple of young dudes on a Kentucky farm who were heaving great enormous hay bales onto a wagon in the torpid heat of a summer's day and it all but killed me.  I struggled through to lunch, then slunk away shamefacedly and did something ladylike instead. 

This morning I finished clearing out the kitchen cupboards. Then we took a load to the storage unit and I filled the last of the floor space there. After lunch we went up to Sainsbury's and I deposited six bags of books and videos in the Oxfam bin and bought some strong carrier bags. I've discovered I prefer bags to boxes when in comes to packing books; they're so much easier to carry.

Since then I've been sitting around, doing a crossword, dozing- and getting up once in a while to potter.

Comments

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Somehow the idea of you doing something ladylike makes me smile.

[oakmouse]

Chucking around hay bales looks like easy work but it's really not. You have to know how to get the momentum going and how to lift them properly. Also, do you have any idea how much a bale of hay weighs? Those young Kentucky dudes had probably grown up throwing around hundred pound feed sacks and other hefty things to work up to hay bales.

Glad the clearout is proceeding apace. It's a lot of work!