My sister was irked with me the other day because I fit into a pair of jeans that she has "outgrown".  LOL  She was furious because as she puts it, "I eat what I want and don't even have to exercise."  I responded with the fact that I ride horses and she said that wasn't exercise, the horses do all the work.  Hmmm.... perhaps I should put her on my horse and have her long trot down the road for 3 miles or so.  HA!  That is a good burn in the old legs, huh.  So on Saturday when I woke up I paid more attention to the "exercise" I am not getting.  It started with chores, I hauled hay and water to 2 paddocks and then worked a colt in the round pen for a while.  Nope, no exercise there, so why was I so darn hot and had to take off my jacket?  Then I threw hay down for the week and stacked it, exercise?  I think not.  Next I had two run ins to shovel out.  Shucks, this can't possibly be exercise right?  Then the husband asks if I am ready to start our wood hauling process.  He had spent 5 hours cutting wood on Friday, so we headed to the woods to throw it in the wagon and haul it home.  Climbing around on the hillside carrying logs to and from a trailer and then lifting them over my head to put in the trailer.  Pfft!  Nothing like exercise.  When we finally got the loads home and unloaded (and throwing the wood off the trailer was NOT exercise) it was then time to split and haul it to the house to stack or haul it to the garage to stack.  I must have made a million trips back and forth from the splitter.  Five hours of wood hauling later I was disappointed to realize I hadn't even exercised yet!  Then it was out across the 10 acre pasture and back to catch some horses that needed to have burrdocks picked out of their mane and tail.  But that isn't exercise either, darn it.  Because to some people, you aren't exercising if you aren't walking in place, going nowhere on a treadmill or stairmaster.  I prefer my exercise regimen.  I get to be outside, I get things accomplised AND I'm doing it with my family.  Doing it "country style". 

Have a great day!