single purpose tool...

Those of you who know me, know that I have a hard time focusing sometimes; I'm easily distracted. For example, yesterday, Stuart and I were working on our new garden area and trying to tuck the weed barrier fabric (that goes in between the raised beds) under the raised beds.

I looked around for my margin trowel from my old masonry days, but due to my children's socialist worldviews of redistributing an even layer of my tools all over our farm (it seems unfair that tools should only be available in the shed, right?), I couldn't find it.  So since I'm something of an unabashed show-off to my kids, I decided to just make a specific-use tool right then and there.  I was within a stone's throw of the forge and anvil, and Stu was just standing there, waiting to be impressed, so I grabbed a scrap piece of iron and lit the forge. This is where it begins getting ridiculous...

And 20 minutes later, viola! a new tool! Quite possibly the world's only Weed Barrier Stuffer Underneather The Garden Beds Tool.

And here is a picture of it at work:  Order yours now, while supplies last! By Danco manufacturing!  (just to be perfectly clear; that's a joke...)

And, I turned the profile view into an "S" for Stuart.

In addition to making a tool that will never be used again, believe it or not, we even got a little something done on the garden...