I play favorites with tools. The ones I won’t share because I’m really attached. Two come to mind: my felco pruners, in my right back pocket, an extension of my right hand…I can’t leave home without them. And my hori hori garden knife. With those two, I can put in a day’s work. My job this weekend is to sharpen my blades, clean out my tool box and load my Honda with these and the remaining: rakes, shoves, forks, tarps, wheelbarrow, blower, buckets, and more…all to be ready for the first day of work this week. I won’t overwork them, because the mercury is going to dance between 25 and 75 degrees in the days ahead, and the clouds will unleash some water and snow…ahh spring, you are so mischievous!

A note for the reader: hovering at the bottom of my list of tools are my electronic devices, including the one I am currently typing on. These tools are not favored, not because they don’t work hard, but because I don’t understand them. I have heard from a reader that this blog does not translate well to a mobile phone…which may be the preferred platform of the majority of my readers. So, until I can figure out a setting to fix that, I am going to copy and paste this in addition to sending a link to the website.