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Definitley not within baseline....

I have just finished a program on chronic pain and one of the main pillars in pain management is you can do whatever you want as long as you do it within your baseline. Baseline = intensity & duration without causing the body to scream "stop it, stop it NOW!"

So, my task for today was to bring some firewood to the porch. No problem it say, half hour tops.

Then I realized the most efficient thing to do would be to use the trailer. Oh, wait! The trailer needs to be emptied.

Step 1 - Dig out the barn doors after the snow/rain that fell on Sunday.

Step 2 - Hook up a full/heavy trailer to the tractor.
Step 3 - Drive tractor to the access to the field.
Step 4 - Assess the snow situation, should be OK after all I have the snowblower attached.
Step 5 - Blow my way into the filed and fling manure out of trailer while wondering where my baseline is.
Step 6 - Attempt to blow my way out of the field. Not so easy...no chains on tires.
Step 7 - Detach trailer, shovel snow from under tractor. Apparently my baseline was quite a while ago.
Step 8 - Back tractor all the way out of the field.
Step 9 - Tractor is stuck again, damn the baseline, shovel the tractor out again.
Step 10 - Pull the trailer across and out of the field by hand through the snow.

Finally I got the empty trailer attached to the tractor.

Now to haul and stack the wood!