more rain more pain and red wigglers

It has been a mixed day all told. We've had some pretty heavy downpours, and in between them, some brilliant sunshine. I've been trying to catch up on all the outside things I was planning to do like build a large cloche out of MDPE water pipe and reinforced clear tarp'. I got the pipes cut and bent into  hoops and shoved into the ground, but not yet got the tarp' over them. I have to prioritise chores and before the cloche I had other things which needed doing today, like, digging in the compost heap for my red wiggler worms which I sell 100 at a time on ebay.I had to dig, count and package 600 worms in 4 lots of 100 and one lot of 200, and get them posted this afternoon.I don't mind doing it as I enjoy sitting out there in the fresh air listening to birdsong and smelling the various blossoms in the air. What I don't like about it is the utter indescribable agony it causes me. I suffer from osteoarthritis throughout my body which make me stiff and sore mainly in the mornings, and also something called Scheuermann's disease which is causing my spine to crumble and curve and it's that which causes me the most pain. As you can imagine, digging, then bending and counting is not good for backache and I usually end up on all 4's  with my upper half supported by a bucket under my chest, while I sift and count.I was glad when I'd finished and had them all packaged and posted. They are going off to start compost heaps of their own, all over the country.

Thanks to the effort of worm counting,I am now in too much pain to get anything else done today. Ahh the spirit is definately willing, but the body is saying "just you do and I'll make you suffer"! So I've taken my opiates early and come indoors. One side effect of bad pain is that I cannot concentrate properly and get careless and sure enough as I stood up with the bag of containers with worms, I was only aware of the pain in my back and I staggered and hit my hand against the upturned wheelbarrow. I didn't actually feel pain when I did it, as apparently, a body can only ever feel one pain at a time and mine was busy feeling my spine pain, so I took no notice. It was only when I looked down to see why the bag felt wet, that I realised that I was bleeding badly from a finger.Since that finger was also caked in old compost, I figured I'd better do something about it so a scrub with the nailbrush, soap and hot water  and then drenched the cut in Hydrogen peroxide to ensure any minute bit of compost in the cut got fizzed out,. Marvellous stuff is hydrogen peroxide.When I cut myself I use nothing but that and/or veterinary wound powder and to date have never had anything go bad.
 The information about a body only ever being able to feel one lot of pain at a time is useful too. If you ever hit your finger with a hammer and it hurts, hit your thumb immediately and you won't feel any more pain in your finger.