I went and got the 3 twin mattresses that some toad had left at the corner of the road I like to ride on. I think they are spring coil but I was able to fold one and tie it and get in the dumpster. If I can tie the next two more tightly I can probably get them both in the dumpster. Cut down the dead tree by the horses water tank while waiting for Paul to get home from church and lunch out. I could have gotten the mower off and the blade on myself if I had too but he offered to swap them for me and I'm not good at it.
I even did some quick cleaning of the mini's pen. Pulled some of the wet hay away from the fence to the middle of their pen. I want to till it in someday. And then where they had a bunch of wet hay by the gate I used the tractor bucket to 'rake' it back and then scooped up 3 bucket loads of it. The second was only about 1/2 a load, but I grabbed the manure fork and loaded it full for the last trip.
I was worried about Taj sneaking out of the pen when I went in with the tractor and thought, 'I'll push the gates open with the tractor as I go. DUMB move. I caught the gate with the bucket and didn't notice and pulled the big railroad tie post the gate is mounted to off kilter. It looks like the post just moved in the sand vs breaking so I jacked up the gate to get the post sat and tamped the post and when I released the jack it wasn't as bad but was still off so I jacked it up again high as the jack wanted to go for me and tamped it again and left the jack under the gate. Maybe it will set up better overnight.
Took an ibuprofen with a beer plus had some frosted shredded wheat and pretzels. My right shoulder and neck are whining hard. I should make myself look over my left shoulder half of the time the next time I am backing the tractor a lot to clean pens. But tonight I will take an Alleve and hopefully the NSAIDs will work so I'm not too stiff and sore tomorrow.
P.S. The post did hold this morning. Yesterday I also did a load of laundry and vacuumed the entryway. I need to get pics of the basement room and dad's horse trailer and do FB marketplace posts. Yesterday when I took the tractor back to P's yard he and S had just put the cows away after letting them graze in their yard so I didn't text or call him that I was finished since I was sure couldn't have missed hearing the tractor. They did not turn and make any contract with me and I was in a hurry to get back home to fix my gate post so I didn't try to initiate contact with them. I keep feeling a weird vibe that they want to avoid me. If I had been born 20 years later than I was, I'd probably have a diagnosis of 'being on the spectrum', or Asperger syndrome. I do fit the Asperger symptoms, though not too strongly IMO. Regardless I have very low confidence in my ability to pick up on social cues and I don't want to be a pest, so I err on the side of deciding people are busy and don't want to talk to me.
Shoulder and neck feel pretty good today so the NSAIDs and pain wizard last night did the trick.