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Tenshi · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 2594 Location: Star Stuff

The garden took about four hours, alternating between a trowel and a hoe. I think it was a hoe. It's shaped like a hoe (the flat, small bladed implement bent at a 90 degree angle to the handle), but it had three prongs. A quick browse of Lowes doesn't help me any, but it does list this type of hoe called an "action hoe".

Yes. I played in the dirt with a trowel and an action hoe. Yes, yes, I did. For four hours, I did. Heh heh.. >>

I'd say it was back breaking, but there's a certain sick humor to that right now, no? It was good fun. And we may just have to paint those boxes! That would be keen! Thanks for the idea!
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Tinu. · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 4:43 pm Post subject:

It's called a Cultivator, I think. Or, well. Cultivators generally have four prongs, but they can have three, as well. It was my weapon of choice when my parents tried to interest me in gardening as a child.
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Tenshi · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 2594 Location: Star Stuff

Yes, but playing with a trowel and cultivator for four hours doesn't sound nearly so amusing to me.. >>
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Tinu. · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 8:55 pm Post subject:

Call things by their real names and almost everything becomes funny. Go grab your "action hoe" look at it, and call it a cultivator. It's just as ridiculous.
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Asa · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:02 am Post subject:

I think I always called it a long-handled trowel, or probably more likely, a trowel on a long stick. That's what I think when I look at one, anyway.
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Tinu. · Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 9:20 pm Post subject:

So, I took this picture a year or more ago, and I finally got it off my phone and smudged it. I just find the wording hilarious. Laughing

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Tinu. · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:23 pm Post subject:

Someone brought this darling into my work on Tuesday with good intentions. They thought it was hurt, but the only thing wrong was that it was only a day or two old and hadn't quite mastered the art of running. Poor thing can't go back now. =(

Still, it was adorable.
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Tinalles · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:37 am Post subject:

The poor deer! *ba dum ching*

Today my brother bought me Magicka on Steam, and it turned out to be a really awesome game. Very funny.
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Asa · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:04 am Post subject:

Aww. Is there a reserve or something nearby?
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Tinu. · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:05 am Post subject:

My work actually has a "zoo" featuring local wildlife. A really long time ago they acted as a wildlife rehabilitation center, too. They haven't done that for years, though, that I know of. At least not in the official "bring us your critters" kinda way. I know that some of the animals we've got couldn't be rehabilitated for whatever reason, and that's why we have them, and I suppose we had to have gotten them from somewhere--but probably from official rehab centers, not people bringing stuff in.

We couldn't take the fawn, though, because a.) we don't do rehabilitation anymore, and b.) we're not licensed to deal with fawns. We called someone in, so I guess there must be some animal rescue/rehabilitation centers somewhere nearby. But I don't know where they are.

Annnnnd I spent Saturday morning trying to get this little guy out from behind the wheel of my mom's car. Now he resides in a cat carrier in our backyard while we try to tame him enough to take him to a shelter.

This is a weird week for animals.
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Tenshi · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 2594 Location: Star Stuff

Your brake rotors are so cozy waaaaaaarm.... Sort of a hair raising situation, though. Made it out just by a whisker. If you hadn't spotted him before driving, that would have been a catastrophe.

>> .... -flees-
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Tinu. · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:13 pm Post subject:

No, he could move his head. He was perched on the wheel axle most of the time. And since there are no current litters in our yard, and because of how small he is, we can only concluded that he hopped up behind the wheel while my parents were out at breakfast and hitched a ride home with them. In which case it's a miracle he's still alive.
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TheBritishInvasion · Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 1846 Location: The couch

Some of my pictures from Hadrian's Wall:

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Nem · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 2112 Location: England

Reminds me of a quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

Tenshi · Joined: 18 Apr 2008 Posts: 2594 Location: Star Stuff

For our Canadian Forumites:
http://i.imgur.com/uQU6g.jpg

(Sorry, the image is massive, and I didn't want to make the screen scroll)
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