Inertia
Today as I approached the afternoon, I had no desire to dig in and get some hard work accomplished. This sitting body wanted to stop sitting, lie down and go to sleep. But I got my sitting body in motion and went outside and got a fire going in the fire ring. Then the scientific law took over for me. A body in motions tends to continue in motion. I was able to work through the afternoon, burning more old wood from the garage and sorting through more scrap metal. I hope it's scrap! I'll have someone check it out for me before I get rid of it. I almost threw a ladder jack away because I didn't know what it was!
I also yanked some more dead plants and carted two big bags of compost material to my friend's compost pile. He was glad to get it and I was glad to get rid of it because my compost pile is pretty full.
My body in motion is now winding down again, just sitting, but getting slowed down to head for bed.
Submitted by
Leslie
at 10/21/2005 8:47:25 PM- It's always the "getting going" that's tough, isn't it? I probably would've tossed the ladder jack, too. I wouldn't have had the foggiest notion of what it was.
Submitted by
Sally
at 10/22/2005 3:04:27 AM- I wanted to "dig in" but my body wouldn't cooperate. I had worked out there all day Thursday, and not one muscle wanted to move on Friday. So, I took a nap and now it is 4:00 in the morning Saturday!! Some nap, eh?
Submitted by
NJ
at 10/22/2005 7:44:45 AM- Dawn, it wasn't so much my body as my mind set, I think. Sometimes I just don't feel like doing hard labor. I was OK after I started.
Leslie, I was outside when a man stopped to pick up the ladder jack and I gave it to him, but I said I didn't know what it was and then he told me. Then I said, "Oh, I can't give that away!" Then he showed me where the other one was by the side of the house!!! Thank God for honest people. Ladder jacks are used for raising and lowering scaffolds when work is being done on the side of a building.
Sally, that's some nap! You should have stayed in bed till breakfast time! You probably were wide awake by 4. Isn't it a great feeling to get the ard work under control?
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Sounds like your body needs to have a rest. What a busy day !