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Ohhh, Jim, I think ahm' in luv!!! Your garden sounds like veggie heaven!! and then you have horses Too???? Just my very humble opinion but whether moving horse manure or walking veggie peelings to the garden, each step counts...especially with troublesome ailments, like neuropathic feet that slow us down and make us pay an extra price later for our efforts.
Gardening for me must be something like what is called a "runner's high". Once started, I lose all sense of time and thoughts of anything else. I do find myself taking more sitting down breaks but those also give me an opportunity to view progress and like you, plan the next most needed yard task.
Before having my yards professionally landscaped and reducing lawn to a much smaller patch in the back, I bought an electric mower as my retirement gift-to-self. Now with less physical stamina, that mower has been a Godsend for me. Whatever tools we have that can be used, like repaired tires for the your riding mower and trailer, are prized because they enable us to keep doing what we love. ...Sigh, and you have horses, too???? How many?
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@fiesty76
I don't own any horses. We have irrigation rights for 7 of our 10 acres, so in exchange for handling the water, friends kept their 2 horses on it until a year ago. After they sold one of them they moved Lloyd, our neighbors asked if they could lease our pasture for their cattle and horses in exchange for handling the irrigation and upgrading the pasture. I did water the last month of last year's season and knew that I couldn't do it long term, hard exercise though it was. I have a manual water line - 30' pipes that are connected, 7 or 8 in a line. It takes 6 settings to water the pasture. So, while their small herd grazes we enjoy watching them. After the cows graze the grass down, they move them and let their 5 horses supplement their hay by grazing the pasture.
Whatever animals are on the pasture, my service dog's Border Collie instincts kick in, so whenever she's outside she thinks it's her duty to keep the animals in a group. It's interesting to watch.
So, to tie my comments to the heading of this group, Neuropathy and Exercise, without my riding mower I have to walk a lot when I go around our ten acres digging up thistles. To get rid of thistles you have to dig up the taproot. More exercise. So, from April through November my exercise routine is productive.
A long, roundabout answer to your question about the number of horses we have.
Jim