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Roper


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The Roper boys have two yard care jobs in the neighborhood that they do every Saturday.  It usually takes them about an hour per yard.  Well, they're at Youth Conference this week, so I did their yard care jobs for them.  Took me four hours. The heat index is 104. Even though I was resting about 10 min every hour and drinking a half-liter of water, I think I got heat exhaustion.  I got really dizzy on the way home and I can't remember about the last 20 minutes of the second job. I'm sure I completed it, but the details are fuzzy. Now my legs feel really weak.

I'm amazed that pioneers pulled handcarts day after day in similar conditions sometimes.  I don't think I could do it.  I probably would have stayed in dreary old England.

And as far as the blessings of hard work--I'm just not seein' it in this case.

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Be careful! If you do damage to yourself that could be avoided, I don't see a blessing in hard work.

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Cat Herder


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Dude... definitely heat exhaustion... and 1/2 liter water in 4 hours is not enough in that sort of heat, particularly if the resting was not out of the heat...

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Roper: if you didn't read my last entry on blogofmormon.blogspot.com you'd be glad to know I've felt your pain. :)

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Dude... he drank a 1/2 liter every hour. That still can be not enough maybe... confuse.gif

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt

This Saturday was different than last Saturday. With my sons' help, we changed the brake pads on the van, got the chainsaw chain sharpened and cut down a dead tree in a home teachee's yard, and did yard maintenance in two other yards including our own. I got my laundry done. I prepared the Sunday meal to put in the crock pot before church. In the words of James Brown, "I feel good!" Even though I was tired, I really did feel a sense of accomlishment.

Then the older boys watched the toddlers while Sister Roper and I went on our date. We listened to a live band play Latino music outdoors and shared a pint of Ben & Jerry's "Half Baked" ice cream. Sister Roper had a $10 gift certificate for J.C. Penny, so we went shopping and came home with a new outfit for our little Princess.

Yesterday was just about as perfect as a Saturday could be.


-- Edited by Roper at 16:27, 2007-08-19

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