It struck me this morning, as I was straining every muscle in my body to lift a log half my size onto the back of our four wheeler, that there is something soul-satisfying about doing physical labor. And yet somehow we, or perhaps I should reign that universal statement I was about to make back down to "I", spend a lot of my time and money trying to avoid that very thing.Modern life is a backward thing sometimes, isn't it?
So here's to the construction workers, the snow-shovelers, the loggers, the builders, the roofers, the carpenters, the laborers. I think you, perhaps, have held onto something most of us have forgotten.
My job: Clear sticks, load and unload logs on four-wheeler.
Dad's job: Felling trees, cutting logs, clearing area, helping me start the faulty four-wheeler after I gave up on it.It should be noted that he also did everything I did and more before I came out. I'm no early riser. Also, that is indeed a pond that tree fell on. Looks safe, huh?
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. ~Arnold Glasow
Love the pictures.
ReplyDeleteI hope you were rewarded with a nice, crackling fire after all that hard work! : )
ReplyDeleteCouldn't agree more... something so good about doing physical work. I love it. I've worked on a few cars since getting home and I've loved every minute of using my hands for something other than web-surfing and sermon writing again....
ReplyDeleteI guess I'd have to agree......but, I must admit that excitement was one of the last things on my mind when the truck came this morning to drop off the several cords of wood that I knew I would spend the next weeks cutting, splitting, and stacking. That's enough work, I can't imagine going into the woods and hauling the wood as well....
ReplyDeleteis the pond... frozen? hehe.
ReplyDeleteAnnah: Thanks! Carrying that thing more and more these days.
ReplyDeleteNaomi: Well, not with that wood, but yes.
Nate: Cars I wouldn't really know about...
Beth: It's true...the anticipation of all that time and work ain't so thrilling!
RS: Yes, but when the tree fell it broke through the ice and so there was a big puddle on the ice that Dad had no problem sloshing through and I stayed away from.
I think I should specify that "that thing" is a camera. Unclear, unclear.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of things that modern society has backwards.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was doing construction after high school I know I felt quite satisfied after coming home from work. Most of the rest of guys complained about their job and how it was a dead end job and didn't pay much, but now I think that their dissatisfaction was more a product of their personal life than anything else. To be fair though there were legitimate problems with the company we were working for.
In the end though I enjoyed the work a lot, despite the issues.
there's a different tired after physical labor... and a satisfaction that doesn't occur in other less physical activities. A good look at your day...thanks!
ReplyDeleteBonnie
wow...it sure looks cold...
ReplyDeleteIt can be a lot of fun. I went shoveling with my best friend and her family, and we did a lot of neighborhood drives- it took all day, but I didn't complain once. I didn't even think too, I was having too good of a time!
ReplyDeleteLooks like Dad's software works on daughters but not sons!
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