Downsides to Farming (a delayed update)

I have discovered that there are unforeseen downsides to living in the middle of nowhere on a farm.
Just earlier this week I was delighting in the tan that my gumboots had given me, delighting in working on a farm. Now, unfortunately, I have experienced another side of farm labor; back pain. While there are a myriad of possible causes for back pain, in my case it seems to have started a few weeks ago when I re-did our compost piles - and promptly bragged about it. After slight soreness for a few weeks, I apparently tweaked it somehow, probably with my extravagant weeding technique. Its a bit of a mystery, but no matter what has caused it in the middle of planting season its a right pain (if you'll pardon the pun) to be laid up. Of course, I've done myself no favors, doing the absolute maximum amount of permissible movement while 'resting'. Today, after two days of partial rest, I decided to go work on a mulch bed. That, it turns out, was a bad idea. So who knows how long this will last; it will probably heal quicker if I get better at sitting still, but that is a tall order.
To make things worse, or perhaps just the back issue slightly less bearable, our internet has died. As in, the box channeling our internet is completely broken. We've been waiting all week for a new one to arrive in the mail, and the courier, for some reason, is held up. Apparently, when you live out in the country 'next day' courier service takes more like four or five days. For chrissake people! I'm injured! What am I supposed to do without the bountiful entertainment supplied by the internet? But really, there are things that I could do on the internet that I simply cannot without it, and being incapacitated would be easier if I didn't feel so darn useless.
That might be enough complaining. On the plus side, the weather has been clear and gorgeous (just in time for me to not be able to enjoy it - sorry, no more complaining), although with very strong, cold southerlies (the equivalent of northerlies in the Northern hemisphere). The garden is springing to life, especially in the greenhouse, which is a full five to ten degrees warmer at all times. Plus, we now have loads - literally- of compost with which to slather the garden and achieve maximum fertility. WHICH I WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO DO WHEN I CAN USE A SHOVEL AGAIN.
Alright, I'm no fun right now. Will try again at a later date, hopefully when my back hurts less. Or I just feel less bitter about it. Maybe when the internet returns....

Note: This was written a few days ago. We still (still!) don't have internet, despite the fact that it should have arrived at the latest on friday, and it is now monday; we've come into town to do a few things and I'm using the library's internet. My back is better, although perhaps still not at its best, and I'll try to go do some interesting things to write about!