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Also, farm work comes in bursts. It's not like farmers were toiling away all day, every day in the fields. They'd work their asses off during a few weeks of t
by mywittyname 5y ago
Also, farm work comes in bursts. It's not like farmers were toiling away all day, every day in the fields. They'd work their asses off during a few weeks of the year for prep, plant, and harvest. But the rest of the time they needed to tend to animals and do various chores.
Even drunk people shouldn't have too much trouble weaving a wattle fence.
- ch4s3 5y agoIf you read commentary about drunkenness from before modern temperance movements you’ll quickly see that people in Europe and the US considered a fairly large amount of drinking to be normal.