My arms are sore and my shoulders ache. My entire upper body is sore. I spent about three hours raking bark and sawdust from our yard today.

We burn wood at our home, and we bought 10 pulp wood cords a little over a year ago. It arrives as logs in a very high pile. We are now down to less than a third. We’ve been burning it throughout the winter, and it made a mess in our side yard. This is one of the warmest days, and so we brought more wood into the garage, and I began cleaning up the yard. It is a huge process and even after several hours of work, it isn’t close to being done.

It feels good though, but it probably won’t tomorrow. I even have a blister on my thumb from holding the rake.