This is my paternal grandmother's father (lower right) with his brothers. I'm beginning to realize, as we have an older house and I garden and can and hang laundry and hand-scrub floors, that the hands-on life requires a LOT more sheer physical effort than swiping the vacuum over the floor and eating take-out. You don't need a gym when you're hauling baskets of laundry up 2 flights of stairs, scrubbing floors, processing tomatoes and peaches, and clearing some garden beds for fall plantings. That's me this week-end. Barefoot (except for outside) and hausfrauing. If you asked my female ancestors if they did 3 hours of vigorous exercise a week, they would probably have told you they did more than that every day! Got to get to work.
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