Spring has finally come to Manitoba, and the yard is beckoning. What a mess it is! Leaves and broken branches all over the grass, ratty- looking plastic bags caught in the bushes, and tons of dead, brown grass, all calling for me to come and clean things up!
Well, believe it or not, I started yesterday. I walked around the yard to see if any of the bulbs had started pushing through the soil - garlic, onions, tulips, lilys and iris. Nothing was up, surprise surprise, so I walked some more and picked up some of the loose paper and plastic. Then I actually spent some calories and cleaned up the pile of bird seed that had accumulated around the bird feeder. That done, I went back in the house, My first fifteen minutes spent on yard work done!
Today, I increased my time to thirty minutes and spent it raking. Tomorrow, unless I've stiffened up, I'll increase my time to forty five minutes. And by this time next week I'll be working full out with no pulled muscles to hold me back!
The lesson here is obvious, but being a retired school teacher, I'll review it. We are no longer in our twenties, What I could do at twenty six is long gone at sixty six! But experience does pay: start low, build up slow, and yard work can be a real pleasure instead of a real pain!
Have a look at the article just below, it's a discussion of a possible tax rise in the US, and what it would do to retirees - It won't affect Canadians, but we all know how stuff like that tends to migrate north across the border! Just click on the title.
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