Cindy - amen, I do take every other day off (I have to . . . lol).
Sue - Cody keeps TALKING about renting or buying a tiller . . . but so far he hasn't, so I'm getting lots of exercise! My parents were old-fashioned and poor so we never had any power tools when I was growing up . . . not even an electric mixer for the kitchen (and when my crippled hands discovered THOSE . . . oh, BOY! lol) so I'm actually used to working rock-hard NM clay by hand . . . but it just keeps getting so much harder every year.