No pain! No gain!

No pain! No gain!
How many times have we heard that in our lives?
Well over the weekend I worked with friends to get ready for next winter's heating season.
Two big piles of eight foot logs were delivered about ten days prior and as we did last year we have to cut it up, split it and then put it in the wood shed to season for next year.
Together the three of us, who share the wood, worked two hours Friday, three hours on Saturday and again three on Sunday.
My job is to swing the axe while the other two cut the wood with a chain-saw and stand up the stumps so I can split them.
We always mark our progress in the snowbank with a piece of wood.
The first day the pile was cut back about two feet and the next two days four feet each.
We made good progress! Best estimates are we have about half of it done with eight hours of work invested.
Why did we not finish the entire job if it only took eight hours to do half?
Well the simple answer is our bodies just couldn't go any longer each of those days.
Saturday I felt many muscles in my body I forgot I had. Sunday morning it was more of the same. By Sunday night I was wishing I had a new back!
As I sit and type this Monday, about the only part of my body that does not hurt are my fingers.
But as the old saying goes, "No pain! No gain!"
–Until then,
Ken