Posts Tagged ‘back’

Learning My Limitations

I’m learning my limitations.  If you come out to the farm you’ll see a large area that I turned under in February with a digging fork.  My back made it through the work gracefully.  Today I was preparing the ground in the greenhouse, to make way for some snap bean transplants (yes, it seems to make sense to me to transplant them for an early planting).  And, I got that familiar feeling in the lower back that says: “hey, man, quit digging or I’ll make you quit.” So I stopped.  I went and posted fliers for the CSA all over Penn Valley.

It was a big step for me, to take it easy.

We’re in a rush…most of us are.  I am.  I want to get things planted.  Don’t wait, I tell myself.  Don’t wait for tomorrow what you can do today.  And, I believe that is a good thing…if it can be done with grace and without stress.  At the farm, some things can’t wait. And, some things can.