As a farmer it's my responsibility to make sure all the crops are watered and all the animals are fed. I have to get up very early in the morning and go to bed very early – around 9pm. I like the life I live but it's not without it's hard work, sometimes I think that I might be getting to old for this, but when I see the happy expressions on the animals faces I know that I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.

Recently though I've been having a slight medical problem, though not serious it is annoying enough to really ruin my day and make it much harder to get on with my jobs. This problem, as I've learnt, is called heartburn, it's basically the feeling that you get when your stomach had not digested things correctly and acid starts coming back up into your throat and causes pain. I normally get it if I eat too much rich food before I go to bed and then in the morning when I'm doing activities that require me to lean down or bend forward that's when it starts to strike.

When I'm milking the cows for example it happens and I never know what I should do about it. One of my friends suggested that I see a doctor but I'm far too busy at the moment and the doctor's office is about seven miles away from the farm. What I need is quick acid reflux relief. Well I've actually been searching online and what I've found so far is a page (that I linked to above) which I think is pretty good. It goes through different things you can do at your house using ingredients that you'd probably find in your kitchen.

A lot of the things it says to use are actually plants and as I'm a farmer I actually grow a lot of the ingredients here. Another thing that I've found has been slowing down my farming work recently has been the weather. It's been extremely cold and this has caused my fingers to go numb, this doesn't sound like it would effect the rate of work that I do but I have to close and open gates and tie and untie ropes quite a lot and if you can imagine this is greatly slowed down by having cold hands. Gloves aren't even a good option because they are too bulky and stop me being able to tie knots. My wife has said that she will make me some gloves which have the tops cut off the fingers but I think this will still mean my fingers are cold and this is the problem in the first place.

Despite these problems I still love being a farmer and I wouldn't change it for anything. The heartburn can be pretty easily stopped, in fact this site may shed some more light on the matter. The weather will get better soon and then I won't have to worry about having cold fingers.

Well that's all for this entry I really hope that you have enjoyed what I've had to say and that you'll come back here next month for my next entry. I think I'm going to compare different types of sheds and locking mechanisms, but that's all I'm saying for now. See you next time!