Plenty of exercise options this time of year
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I have decided not to replace my treadmill until fall. You may recall me mentioning a couple of weeks ago that, while the machine will still turn on, you cannot adjust the speed or incline without it powering down. This is still true. However, I discovered if you select the cardio program before pushing start, you can go two miles per hour at a varying incline for 30 minutes. This is not a difficult workout for me, and I have used it a couple of times when the weather has been too terrible during the time I have available to work out.
On the days when I can go outside, I do. Several days, I have dragged brush and small logs from various areas on the farm to a stump we’re attempting to burn out of our yard. Twenty to thirty minutes of that before work is plenty to work up a sweat and be sure I get my active minutes for the day. Also, that still leaves me time for a shower and to pack a lunch before I have to leave for work. On other days, I have fired up the weed eater and spent time working on that never-ending project.
In addition to having quite a large yard that requires a fair amount of trimming, we have a couple miles of fence row and several banks along the road. We can only mow so close to the fence lines without damaging them, and this time of year there is too much grass for the cows to be concerned about grazing too close. We are not big proponents of chemical sprays, which leaves weed whacking.
Keeping the grass trimmed around the fence line keeps the electricity flowing through them without shorting out the line. Still, I am unlikely to have completed the fence rows before they need begun again.
The other day when I was trimming the edges of the field where the cattle are grazing presently, I leaned forward to chop a rosebush down. Suddenly, it sounded as though I had been pelted in the legs by handfuls of gravel and felt like a cinderblock had been dropped on my feet. It was then I realized that I had leaned into a hot wire on the fence.
Yowza!
I had been out for nearly 30 minutes and knew it was getting close to time that I would have to get ready for work anyway, so I trimmed to the next post and then shut off my machine. I had walked nearly back to the house before my legs stop tingling from the shock.
I was pleased that the fence was working well, and also grateful that the cows can smell the electricity before they get to the fence, so that them being shocked by it is a very rare occurrence.
Laura Zoeller can be reached at zoeller5@verizon.net.