Manual Labor is good for the soul but hard on the back!

I thought it would be good to be part of the "hard" work so here I am helping haul rock from one end of the campus to the other. We were building a retaining wall that had washed out with the rain. After two hours of hauling rock my forearms felt like they were going to burst. I could hardly hold the sticks on the carrying rack. Benjamin continued to work for the rest of the day and I smiled and said "no more". Many of the men will work well into their forties doing manual labor. Most will die in their early sixties because of all the hard manual labor and lack of nutrition.