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How I exercise without exercising

♕ajtexas♕

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I live on a good size piece of land in central Texas. Most of the land is zoned agricultural and therefore we have to make sure that land is used accordingly.

 

I have always loved gardening and since Texas has two growing seasons we have fresh veggies growing almost year round. We have an orchard with fruit trees (pears, plums, peaches, nectarines & pomegranates) and two years ago we got a flock of chickens. This next year we plan to expand into livestock with rabbits and goats.

 

Having all these agricultural items require a lot of maintains (chores). I have chores to do everyday whether it’s tending to the chickens, picking or planting veggies and let’s not forget the never ending task of pulling weeds. This is my exercise. When I get home from work I spend the first hour tending to these chores and the weekends are always filled with projects.

 

Just this last weekend my husband and I removed an old barbwire fence that ran along the front of the property. It was a full eight hour job. First we had to clear all the dead weeds from the fence, pull the barbwire down and then roll it up and finally pull up all the posts. I walked over 6 miles that day and found muscles in my shoulder and arms that I didn’t know I had.

 

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Me rolling up the barbwire.

 

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Me using our tractor to pull up the posts.

 

 

This is my exercise plan and it works for me!



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Now you are someone I can relate to! I have rolled plenty of barb wire and have the scars to prove it. lol Do you have a front end loader on that tractor? That is what I use to pull post up with. Glad to see a country gal on here!

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Now you are someone I can relate to! I have rolled plenty of barb wire and have the scars to prove it. lol Do you have a front end loader on that tractor? That is what I use to pull post up with. Glad to see a country gal on here!

Don't have the loader attachment, big mistake not getting it when we bought the tractor (that's a whole other story, lol). Used the three point in the back to pull the posts. It worked great.

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