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Originally Posted by Richard Bingham
This summer, I had to take back a small acreage of hay, and ended up moving a 1/4 mile line of sprinkler pipe three times a day.
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This is the last place I would have ever looked to find someone who had, as we called it, "moved pipe." My summer chores in the late 60s and early 70s included 12 quarter-mile lines that had to be moved by about 2 p.m. every day. I ran the whole distance, half-hour per line. Stout, Anderson, Wade Rain and Rain-Bird are tradenames on the tip of my tongue, nearly 40 years later. I never
didn't have a pipe wrench on my belt. $1.35/line when I started, $2.10/line six years later, when I switched to three times the wage in sawmill work to pay for college. Now a long climb of steps leaves me wistful, if not winded. The green chain at the mill is . . . oh, never mind. The mills are gone now.
The sentiment expressed in this thread, about keeping the physical form in shape to support the creative form, is valid. I really, very much hate working out, but love
having worked out, so I give it 25 minutes every single day at 4:30 a.m. Otherwise, if I sidle up later that day (after cubicle hours) to the easel like Jabba the Hutt, that's the caliber of work I'll do, and we know what happened to Jabba. If I've had a workout and breakfast (and two other of my four ideal essentials, best left unmentioned here) by 8 a.m., there is nothing I can't accomplish in a given day. But without that physical exertion straight away, I'm in first gear all day, oily sludge in the crankcase and clutch slipping.
Thirty minutes' worth of attending to the physical health will give you three, clear, extra hours of acuity and productivity every day. You'll waste thirty minutes in the next 24 hours just casually, aimlessly surfing the Net. Choose differently, for a different result.