Always Lift With Your Legs

Or an essay titled "How I Spent my Weekend". Which was, to put it more succinctly than an essay, in pain. I hurt my back somehow, to the point where I couldn't even walk, and it's just a guess but somehow I suspect it's from toting around a 25 pound baby! And have I been diligently squatting down to pick him up, using the strength in my legs rather than the fragile poorly designed human lower back? Yeah, not so much.

Here are some things that weigh 25 pounds:

Images courtesy Google Images, if you are interested in Desiccated Coconut, Rabbit Scram, Tennessee firewood, or super grade Jasmine rice, just google "25 lbs" and scroll down.