Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Fiskars brain fart

 I got these handy-dandy little clippers for dirt cheap and they are one of my favorite tools!


I use these when I am taking off the greenery from vines, like grape and bittersweet, but I also use them to prep the willow and for taking the white cedar clippings from the downed branches. I used them last for that very purpose......and then couldn't find them.

We just took down some small trees of our neighbors that were growing behind the house, as well as a honeysuckle, and they were all tangled up with a grapevine. I saw stars, more grapevine! I can make more wreaths! Or add to some I already have that aren't full enough! But that also meant untangling it, and oh my goodness, the amount of pollen coming off of them was insane! We had to wear protection to keep from breathing it in. 

And I couldn't for the life of me find my clippers!

I searched the house, the workshop, outside on the patio. Nothing. It drove me crazy for two days! And then, immediately after finishing up the work in back, after hauling 4 trailers of crap across town to the compost site, and coming in to shower, it hits me. A tote bag! I had already looked in my usual tote bag that I use when I go on the patio to work on projects and they weren't in there, but no! Wait! I remembered using a different tote bag with that one! I turned around and there was the tote bag and inside? My clippers.

Woodchuck walked in as I lifted up the elusive little sharp thingies and the look on his face was priceless. I guess that was the Universe's way of saying to me that I wasn't supposed to use that skanky grapevine out back 😂 What is one of your favorite tools?




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