Fall is easily my favourite season – the air is crisp but comfortable, unfortunate armpit-baring tank tops get replaced with cozy armpit-hiding cardigans, and there’s glorious raking to be done. Raking? Really? Yes, really! We all have our quirks and raking is mine; raking leaves is easily one of my favourite household chores. It’s relaxing, productive, outdoorsy, and like the McRib or buying DVDs from “Disney’s vault”, available for only a limited time. There’s choice too! You can use a classic style rake or go all out on the latest in rake technologies. What’s not love? Back aches. The fact that a new pile of leaves can blow in at any moment. That it cuts into valuable pumpkin pie eating time. Well, if that’s your attitude, comedienne Amy Sedaris provides something else you can do with your rake – but it may not be suitable around children. Or your parents. Or anyone you have to look in the eye later. [click to continue…]
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I have to hand it to the inventor of the Snake Rake – he’s braver than most. I don’t think many men have the cajones to jump out of a truck, walk onto a stranger’s property and ask another dude if he wants to hold his snake (rake). In some areas of the country, I imagine that’s a sure-fire way of getting a shot gun pulled on your butt, or worse! [click to continue…]
There you were, casually admiring your garden, when suddenly, you spot them! “Them” meaning weeds! Before you go foolishly selecting multiple tools from your shed, try grabbing a Rake N Hoe from Kaizen Garden. The Rake N Hoe combines two tools into one. You’ll never guess which two! What’s that?! Wow! How did you know it combines a rake and a hoe?!
It’s one of those simple “why didn’t I think of that” designs that melds the usefulness of two basic tools into a piece of garden tool weaponry synergy. The synergy comes from not having to switch between tools. Rather than having to find, pick-up and then use the other tool every few seconds/minutes, a split-second 180 degree rotation has you magically wielding a new gardening weapon. And no matter how much you like gardening, I’m pretty sure you still don’t like weeding. [click to continue…]
