hayday
Yesterday I worked harder than I think I ever have, on a given day, in my life. It was an epic 13.5 hour day. Starting with work at the construction site, staining wood and piling junk. A quick break and I headed out to the hay fields at noon, to hay the rest of the day. Loading 35lb bales from field to truck, from truck to barn. 10.5 hours (actually, just 10, cause we had another .5 hour break). We loaded 1200 bales of hay. I lifted so many that I woke up this morning with what Pete affectionately calls "the claw." This is different from the pins and needles I've had for the last few weeks from hammering and sawing heavily--waking with numb hands that take a few minutes to shake off. This was a pain in the tendons, runing from knuckles to elbow, making it extremely painful to bend my fingers. Lovely. All in all though, it felt fantastic to work that hard.