So truly said, Praise!

Although sometimes the inner farmer is hard tobring out. As a lad in boarding school on a farm, I had the happy duty of leading the work crew into the dairy barn at dawn each day to empty the gutters, using rubber boots and wide-bladed shovels. This was s++t at its most shovely, and my reward for pushing the production was that I got to drive the spreader at the end of the shift.

It amazed me how convinced some of those fellow students of mine were that they could not do this work, even though the rest of us were right there showing them that it was confrontable once you made the decision to "wade in", as it were. Their flinch on the prospect was considerable!

Truth is, after a while I found the task enjoyable -- straighhtforward, physically tasking work with a known endpoint and an acheivable goal is a pleasure. But, to be honest, I enjoyed splitting logs more.

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