Oh, how I love my tools.

[minsue]

Then maybe it's time to come up with a nicer pet name for her. Snookums has been done to death, but it's a start.

Do you remember when you called someone Pookie on the political ass thread? The ensuing madness still makes me giggle.

 

[shereads]

With the right tools, any house can be turned into a fixer-upper.

 

[~hellbaby~]

I love my electric reciprocating saw. I like to hold it as if it's an AK-47, attach a 50-foot heavy-duty electrical cord and discipline impertinent tree branches.

I love the new ceramic-plated Japanese flat iron that makes smooth hair possible in Miami.

I dislike vacuum cleaners of all kinds. They're cumbersome.

But I like my lawnmower. Mowing the lawn is one of the few jobs that has a beginning and an end, and isn't subject to anyone's opinion but mine. The day a client shows up in my back yard and says, "It's okay, but it would have been better if you'd left it half an inch taller," he had better hope my reciprocating saw isn't plugged in. I won't be held responsible.

Tools are power.

There is nothing more ,well almost nothing, satisfying than tearing out drywall,tools are a power kick.I love my tools, some intimidate me a little though, like the table saw, but I've got a router,tile saw,jigsaw,scroll saw{in the box still}circular saw ,drills,sanders

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Do you remember when you called someone Pookie on the political ass thread? The ensuing madness still makes me giggle.

I remember. I actually relived it a few weeks ago and had big smiles.

 

[CharleyH]

With the right tools, any house can be turned into a fixer-upper.

Fix her up her?

Yeah. I can renovate

 

[Seattle Zack]

I love girls with guns as much as the next guy....

http://www.moviebadgirls.com/

But the problem is, I can't get them to wear the outfit when they're cleaning my house.

 

[lil_elvis]

the mrs. loves my nailing gun.

 

[Guest]

 

[ABSTRUSE]

The one thing I miss about my old job is my tool pouch and watching men drop their jaws when I walk by carrying a 12ft ladder over my shoulder.

I need to go hammer something now.

 

[shereads]

Do you remember when you called someone Pookie on the political ass thread? The ensuing madness still makes me giggle.

Was it RealGuyUSA? Or was it the one who threatened to skin a coyote and name its pelt after me?

That one scared me. He lived in isolation with his woman and his boy. If he had really wanted to skin something, a coyote would have had to wait its turn.

Pookie, eh? Gosh I'm cute.

 

[minsue]

Was it RealGuyUSA? Or was it the one who threatened to skin a coyote and name its pelt after me?

That one scared me. He lived in isolation with his woman and his boy. If he had really wanted to skin something, a coyote would have had to wait its turn.

Pookie, eh? Gosh I'm cute.

How soon they forget....


At least Lucky gets me. But then, she always has, the freak.

 

[shereads]

I guess I'm a mixture. Cloudy summed up how I feel about my Makita cordless drill, but for gardening, I like non-powered tools. I shelled out for a good quality rake and shovel, and I love using a trowel to plant things.

RoundUp is the world's best tool for weeding, though!

Are you one of the Soil People who live where there is more soil than rocks? You are the envy of Miami gardeners. I thought you only existed in legend.

My yard is mostly chunks of coral-rock. If you can get enough rocks out of the way, you can plant things in soil you've bought. (The best stuff is what Shanglan refers to as "Black-Nailed Dog." It's prohibitively expensive by the unit, even when you can find some. Most of us settle for potting soil.)

My digging tool is a pick-axe. Once the dog becomes interested, I have to put her in the house. Otherwise she interrupts every other swing of the pick-axe by putting her head in the path of the downstroke, scowling down at the pathetic excuse for a hole that I'm trying to dig.

Once I get a start on a hole, the dog will usually show me how to improve it. This can be helpful, if she digs in the same place. Or it can be the opposite of helpful. Once, she waited until I went inside for my shower, and made some improvements on the hole where I'd just finished planting a papaya seedling.

"People: the digging goes a lot faster if you don't muck up the hole with baby trees."

~ Shereads' Dog

 

[ABSTRUSE]

How soon they forget....


At least Lucky gets me. But then, she always has, the freak.

Oh Min, that was a fabulous walk down memory lane....almost as refreshing as the juan thread, the right balance of piss and vinegar....I give it one thumb up as the other met an untimely demise with the circular saw.

 

[minsue]

Oh Min, that was a fabulous walk down memory lane....almost as refreshing as the juan thread, the right balance of piss and vinegar....I give it one thumb up as the other met an untimely demise with the circular saw.

Super glue can fix that.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Super glue can fix that.

You're the Heloise of the AH.

 

[minsue]

You're the Heloise of the AH.

Damn. My sigline is reaching SnP proportions, but I really want that!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Damn. My sigline is reaching SnP proportions, but I really want that!

Live on the edge.

 

[shereads]

I love girls with guns as much as the next guy....

http://www.moviebadgirls.com/

But the problem is, I can't get them to wear the outfit when they're cleaning my house.

Those women don't look like they're having fun.

Think Annette Bening, vacumming the carpet dressed in a satin slip and 4-inch pencil heels. Now add some SPF 30 sunblock. That's me, mowing the lawn.

 

[shereads]

Damn. My sigline is reaching SnP proportions, but I really want that!

How do you do it? When we switched to the New Skins ("Now With More 60% Active Banana") my modest little sig paragraph would no longer fit. There seems to be a maximum number of characters regardless of font size, absence of pix, etc. I liked my paragraph...sigh.

 

[minsue]

How do you do it? When we switched to the New Skins ("Now With More 60% Active Banana") my modest little sig paragraph would no longer fit. There seems to be a maximum number of characters regardless of font size, absence of pix, etc. I liked my paragraph...sigh.

It's characters only. Any messing with font size adds characters. It's an art form.

Now if only I could figure out how some people managed to have a link without that irritating line under it, I'd be a happy goose.

 

[shereads]

Whatever happened to good ol' Pookie? She or he taught me a valuable lesson that day. Thanks to Pookie, I try to avoid using words like "Pookie" that might also be the screen names of people who don't exist. Because they might exist! And they have a right to their privacy.

Think how insulted I Disagree might feel, for example, if he did a forum search for his screen name and found out how often we'd talked about him behind his back at the Author's Hangout. In this thread alone, we've inadvertently insulted "Little Dremel," "Blue D," "Weed Whacker" and "Whatever_Happened_To_Good_Ol'_Pookie."