I realized this finally today as I was scrubbing out our many water containers for the critters.  Above is the brush we use.  Every 5 days we are scrubbing and changing their water.  In addition we have to clean out the barn, pens and hutches.

We have to clean the feeders.

We have to clean the barn towels.

And we have to attempt to clean the barn boots every time we come back to the house.  There is also a lot of barn clothes covered in a variety of substances that need cleaning.

We also have to clean the fruits, vegetables and eggs before we sell, eat or preserve them.

We have to cleaning the preserving equipment too.  The canning supplies,

the pressing equipment,

and the carboys and bottles.

We also have to clean the wool

and the incubator.

Most of this cleaning we have done in the last few days.  So it finally dawned on me, what we are really doing with our lives in cleaning.