Hefty Annoyance Gone<\/i><\/p>\n
I feel like I just had a giant boil lanced. I have ejected my newly extracted concrete slug from the yard. I can’t believe how heavy it is. It took effort to roll it onto my handtruck. I’m surprised I was able to lift it out of the hole yesterday. In fact, it was hard to roll the handtruck. I had to keep the handles way down, to keep the slug from rolling off, and the weight made it hard to roll on the grass.<\/p>\n
I was going to put it in a wheelbarrow, but I realized I would have to get it two feet off the ground in order to do that. My macho-man days are behind me; I avoid lifting whenever possible. When people make fun of me for it, I make a mental note to remind them, when I’m a healthy 65-year-old with a straight back and they’re having vertebrae fused.<\/p>\n
Want a great lesson to teach your kids? Here it is: straining your back or a joint for one second can cause you misery for eighty years. Don’t be a fool, to save yourself the minute or two it takes to get help or the right tool. Never lift anything you don’t have to. I’ve done some dumb things. I pushed a cow off of me after it fell off a ramp. I have lifted my Moto Guzzi off its side several times. I used a pec machine which, I am pretty sure, is designed to loosen and rupture shoulder ligaments. But I am reformed. I was very careful when I lifted the slug yesterday, and if I had even suspected a problem, I would have dropped it instantly.<\/p>\n
Back in ’05, I helped someone clean up his yard after a hurricane, and he made fun of me for asking for ear plugs. Whatever. He won’t be around in twenty years, to buy me a hearing aid to hear the TV. A single exposure to loud noise can cause permanent hearing damage. Wish I had known that when I was ten. At the gun range, I wear muffs plus silicone plugs. I wear plugs when I ride motorcycles, because of wind noise.<\/p>\n
I have to BUY dirt to fill the hole the slug came out of. It’s about a cubic foot. Can you believe that? It never occurred to me to prepare for that. I should de-pot my Trinidad Scorpion plant and put it in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hefty Annoyance Gone I feel like I just had a giant boil lanced. I have ejected my newly extracted concrete slug from the yard. I can’t believe how heavy it is. It took effort to roll it onto my handtruck. I’m surprised I was able to lift it out of the hole yesterday. In fact, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}