Originally posted by rod_grant You might pick up some of my load, Mark.
I have better things to do that sit on this thread, ad finitum, and I can't put them off much longer!!
In the past three or four weeks I have been in work conditioning, a kind of physical therapy/exercise routine designed to get me back into shape for work post surgery. That ties up about 3 hours of each weekday.
My doctor also cleared me to do yard work at home, so I have been cleaning up the downed trees and limbs from last winter including cutting up three trees with butt diameters around 36 cm (14") that the snow took down, pushing the blackberries back (an annual custom here, I shove back in the spring, they shove back all summer), aerating the lawn and fertilizing, weeding the flowerbeds and spreading the yearly layer of bark mulch, prepped and already have a flourishing vegetable garden in two raised beds, and started tomatoes and some peppers in pots on the front walk.
Oh, and there are 32 long needle pine trees, 10 meters tall (30 feet) the former landowner saw fit to plant along the Southern property line for a distance of about 300 meters (1,000 feet). They are not native to this area, and although they grew OK for a time, they are now ragged and filled with bugs. The woodpeckers and flickers have nearly killed a couple and all of them were in need of a thorough limb cleanup. That job alone took me about a week and a half.
The grass need cut at least once every 4 or 5 days this time of year, and it takes all day, even with the tractor and 2 meter (6 foot) finish mower. And we have been filling 7 hummingbird feeders twice a day for a couple weeks now, about 2 liters a day.
Add to all that a B service on the Ram, tractor (I now own 2 tractors) and mower maintenance, and daily chores.
And I still manage 3.75 posts per day.
Of course I can't compete with the likes of @Bertwert who has 7.25 posts per day.
Kids.
Sheesh!