Just Do It

Summer Olympics, winter Olympics or Ag the all weather sport??

With the Olympics coming up I got to thinking about some sports and how they can only be done in the summer or winter but Ag is the all weather sport, we have our version of:

1. Athletics - sprints, long jump. I sprint to the house from the barn on a regular basis's to retrieve feeding tubes, pliers, flash lights well you get the point. I have my own version of the long jump I clear giant mud puddles in single bounds, leap over giant snow drifts to get to the feed shed
2. Shot put - This includes throwing hay bales into the barn, into feed racks.
3. Weightlifting - I lift 50 lb bags of feed to haul them from the truck to the feed shed and then to the sheep themselves
4. Shooting - This is protection of the livestock from predators
5. Wrestling - Yes I wrestle come watch when we put markers on bucks or worm ewes or tag babies, I wrestle
6. Gymnastics - This covers all the positions I bend my body into when I am trying to hold one panel with my foot and another with my hand and move livestock into another pen without letting things escape, or the art of balancing the flashlight while handing wire, pliers or other miscellaneous items to the hubby while holding up the board/panel that is being fixed at the time.
7. Hockey - If you have ever watched hockey you know that the purpose of the goalie is to block the net from the defenders and take a hit if needed. When working sheep my job is to block the exit and take a hit when needed...sounds just like the goalie, doesn't it.

So to all you Olympic athletes I say come train in the real world without massage therapist and personal trainers and when they start giving out medals to the "Real World" athletes I will be a top competitor.