Friday, September 10, 2004
JCB stops play - just before I do.
Friday a day of peace and recovery for me as a broken down JCB TM300 - Telescopic Handler (otherwise known as the JCB on the farm) has more or less stopped play. The engineer is coming out at the earliest on Monday to put a new water pump on and if what I seen was correct, probably a new head gasket as well. I can't say that I'm not glad either as I'm absolutely knackered and have at times been just a "walking bundle of pain". A few days extra rest should get me right as rain (or is it reign) again .
I've been using muscles that I didn't know I had before and by the looks of it they aren't to happy about the situation either and are not afraid to let me know. The ligaments in my hands and ankles have been doing a bit of complaining too. The chaff from wheat has been getting into my eyes and just about everywhere else, this has left me with bloodshot eyes and extremely itchy hives on my arms, legs, neck and stomach, but that is not any different to when we were doing the barley on our own farm, luckily I've discovered anti-histamines, so I'm not writing this with scratched and bloody shins I would have had as a wee kid. Doesn't sound as if I'm complaining much now, does it?
I've been drinking gallons of water and all this exercise rolling round bales around calve pens has sort of knocked the appetite out of me, not a bad thing all things considered, but not what I was expecting at all.
So have I been sickened yet? Well, just a little, but if I look at it as a way of getting fitter and getting paid at the same time, it doesn't seem so bad.
I've been using muscles that I didn't know I had before and by the looks of it they aren't to happy about the situation either and are not afraid to let me know. The ligaments in my hands and ankles have been doing a bit of complaining too. The chaff from wheat has been getting into my eyes and just about everywhere else, this has left me with bloodshot eyes and extremely itchy hives on my arms, legs, neck and stomach, but that is not any different to when we were doing the barley on our own farm, luckily I've discovered anti-histamines, so I'm not writing this with scratched and bloody shins I would have had as a wee kid. Doesn't sound as if I'm complaining much now, does it?
I've been drinking gallons of water and all this exercise rolling round bales around calve pens has sort of knocked the appetite out of me, not a bad thing all things considered, but not what I was expecting at all.
So have I been sickened yet? Well, just a little, but if I look at it as a way of getting fitter and getting paid at the same time, it doesn't seem so bad.
