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Drove down to Home Depot mainly for some salt for the water softener, but also while I was there to pick up some paint brushes, light bulbs, and DW wanted some 3-way bulbs for her favorite reading lamp downstairs. I couldn't find any of those so I'll order them online, probably from Amazon.
And here I thought I was making all this wonderful progress with the physical therapy for my back. But moving four 40-lb. bags of salt around to their final storage place reminded me that within a year or so I'm going to have to find another way of moving those things around. Including having someone at the store load them in the pickup for me.I already use a hand truck to get them from the pickup to the basement but clearly that's not sufficient.
I measure my physical condition against those 40 lb bags of salt too. Our well water is really hard, so I buy 15 bags at a time.
A few years ago I could barely lift them. My muscles were weak and painful. I stopped taking statins and that got better. But it was still hard. Then I went low carb and lost a bag of salt (40 lbs). Now I'm able to sling them around with no difficulty, which is wonderful. Except for when my back acts up, in which case I try to avoid them for awhile. I sympathize with your situation. Some of the people in my neighborhood hire people to deliver and load them. I'm sure my time will come, which might be a sign it's time to move.