Garden Tools for Spring 2023

Gardening is more fun if you've got a good set of tools, just as in every craft.  It's hard to find a well made variety of tools at big box stores and hardware stores. They're just not attuned to the gardener, I think.

Try these sources to make things easier for yourself:

 

Lee Valley Tools        https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/garden

 

 

Red Pig Garden Tools   https://www.redpigtools.com/

 

 Smith & Hawken

I was going to list Smith & Hawken, once I got the name Smith and Wesson out of my head.  I'd never visited one of their stores, but knew I should.  I waited too long, as they apparently closed all of their stores in 2009.  There's a really good article from Garden Rant on the closing:

Smith & Hawken is Dead.
Long Live Smith & Hawken.

 

Burpee   https://www.burpee.com/gardening-supplies/tools-totes-gloves/

Burpee has a nice variety of garden tools.  Most are reasonably priced, but of course I want the Black Walnut Hand forged ones.

 

Pointless

 

Supernatural ReWatch Season One

 

In about April of 2019, I watched the fourteen seasons of Supernatural just in time to watch the fifteenth and final season live when it came out in October. 

I loved every season, and every episode, I said at the time, and considered diving right back in at the beginning. 

Off and on recently, I’ve watched episodes. It is amazing how much I recall from the stories over so many seasons.

This time around I appreciated the dynamics of the boys with their father, how they didn’t realize vampires were real, and how Bobby Singer first showed them a demon trap, something they used over and over through the years.

Love those odd motel rooms they find. Love the unbreakable bond between Dean and Sam.

Onward to season two.

Territorial Seed’s January To Do List

 The seed catalogs are pouring in, making dreams of that perfect garden shimmer in the spring distance. It really is a gift to be a gardener, seeing sunny days ahead in the deepest depths of winter. 

Here’s your to do list for January:

Project Gutenberg Traveling Library

 Although I don’t go to libraries myself (so odd, I admit it), I love old pictures of library services on the fly. Wouldn’t it have been fun to pull up just about anywhere in your little Library-Mobile?

Yarn Weights, Yo Ho!

 Here’s a nice visual reminder of yarn weights and what projects the yarn is best suited for. This is helpful for those of us who sometimes pop yarn into our carts just because it’s pretty.

Cold Blooded Killer!

 Sometimes guilt is obvious.

 https://www.thefarside.com/

Happy 2023

 We made it through another tough year! In normal times I’m optimistic that the clean slate of a New Year will be just the thing.  For 2023 I will go in cautiously optimistic. Wish us all luck, and the best times possible!

I'm In!

 OMG!  Somehow, I'm finally back into my beloved account.  I've been locked out since August.  I've changed my main blog to https://merlynperilous.wordpress.com/  just in case.  I'll have to think about what I want to post where now that my options are glorious once more.  Long live DOA!

My spouse and I :)

All Recipes Apple Turnovers with Puff Pastry

 https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/59124/apple-turnovers/