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April 27,2011 One Year Later, the Recovery Continues
By: Hal Jones (Photo Credit, Jeff Roberts, Birmingham News) There is no way I can effectively communicate the feeling that pervaded the State of Alabama one year ago today. For days the weather forecasters had predicted that the entire State would be under the gun for one of the worst tornado outbreaks on record. It’s […]
Husqvarna Fast Tractor
By: Hal Jones A few years ago I was testing a GTH 26 Garden Tractor by Husqvarna. One of the biggest surprises was its speed and I don’t know whether I was the first to write of the Husqy tractor’s speed,but it fulfilled my need for speed. Well it seems the Husqvarna Fast Tractor has […]
Gardening with the Kids, When the Life Lesson You Thought You Were Teaching Your Kids Is Actually a Life Lesson For You
By: Hal Jones Starting Plant Seeds Indoors Compared to Starting Seeds In the Garden It started off as what I thought would be a life lesson, showing the kids that by planning ahead you reap rewards. So late winter, I purchased the little trays for starting seeds indoors and purchased my seeds. I planted. I […]
Springtime Fun, aka I Forgot to Drain My Fuel In My Pressure Washer Last Fall
By: Hal Jones The soreness in my right shoulder wasn’t there yesterday. Today though it pains me to even do the simplest task such as writing this post. In September I pressure washed my mom’s house, and when finished I put it to the side. I didn’t drain the fuel tank as the Husqvarna Pressure […]
Wagner ProCoat painting System Gets The Job Done on Larger Paint Jobs
By: Hal Jones It seems like every few years I find myself on a ladder painting a house exterior. Years ago in college I would make extra money painting friends houses, those were the brush and roller days and effective paint sprayers were the tools of commercial painting operations. However in recent years several manufacturers […]
Stihl HSA 65 Cordless Hedge Trimmer Extended Use Review , a Cordless Hedge Trimmer for Commercial Use
By: Hal Jones When we first got the HSA 65 to review I was interested in the 36 volt platform Stihl had just introduced. First off, 36 volt batteries are heavy and although the 36 volt tools run circles around their smaller brethren, their weight makes it difficult to achieve an ergonomically balanced tool that […]
Using Kits to Begin Vegetable Seeds Indoors
Several weeks ago, we began our annual preparations for our vegetable garden. One of the cost saving tasks we do, is to begin some of our vegetable plants from seed. So off to my friendly local Lowe’s Store I went to grab some of the little mini-greenhouse starter kits in the garden section. I picked […]
Bring Old Woodworking Tools Back to Life-The Magna-Disc System by DMT and The Worksharp 3000
By: Hal Jones A few years ago I walked into my teenage stepson’s bathroom he was working on and saw that he was using one of my wood chisels as a scraper, removing grout and thinset from the shower. That chisel came back to me and it was so gouged up I retired it to […]