Lou, I was given a kneeler for Christmas one year. When turned upside down, it is a low seat. It might be low enough, if stable enough, to get your butt up on so you do not have to scoot all the way into your house. You should make deep pockets for your apron. Short front pockets on women's jeans are a pet peeve. They always used to be deep enough. Now the pruners fall out. What gives? Also, although jeans pockets do eventually get holes at the tip from carrying tools, especially scissors, I just turn the tool upside down and keep going. The handle end is broad enough to not breech the hole. When tying up, the ball of twine goes in my left pocket. Since I start with the end of the twine from the middle of the ball, the twine feeds smoothly without rolling the ball around. Then the scissors go in my right pants pocket and I'm good to go all day. Diggers and pruners go in the right pants pocket. I can usually carry two out of three tools there as long as the clothes manufacturers aren't stingy and making short pockets. The left pants pocket carries dog treats to keep the puppy (12 years old) where she needs to be. I use a 10 gallon bucket (I think it held grout at one time) for tools. This is kept next to where I walk out the large garage door and so is easily picked from, especially since all tools, including a small landscape saw, are set in vertically. There are enough tools to keep everything upright. I seldom bring the whole bucket. I use other 5 and 10 gallon buckets, which all have handles that can be slung over the handle of the wheelbarrow or the handle of a shovel being carried over my shoulder, to carry fertilizer and a few plants that need planting or for picking weeds. Cath

Archimedes Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world the rounded part is your fulcrum.. for getting a leaver action on the fork/rod for popping out say danylions.. increasing the force available ot the fork Gordon

Well, I dug mine out, and found I've told a story. The handle is not yellow, but brown (I think it may have been yellow many moons ago), and there were no screws holding the wire in place, but the wire did rust and break. I need to find some to replace it! Chas, how did you hold the slicer? I took pictures because I couldn't figure out how to describe it, so it would make sense. Forgive the unwrapped cheese, please, it's the only block I have, and I'm not ready to use it yet. Wrong slicing position. (Ignore the broken wire trailing off to the side.) Correct slicing position. The 2 center tines are thickness guides. Hope this helps! Rusty

Well, I ended up returning the Makita. It was not comfortable to operate, had to keep the locking mechanism engaged while using it (? was it defective; not sure), plus was just overall not the right tool for the money -- was not cheap by any means, the battery itself was about $150. But, I did pick up that Ego cordless hedge trimmer Chessie linked to. Yea, baby! Well designed, is a snap to use and not too heavy (I wouldn't consider it light, but it's not too heavy for me). It easily cut down 3 gigantic clumps of Zebra grass. Struggled a little on fat native hibiscus stems, but they might have been larger than 1", which is the max cutting diameter, but this thing will easily take down other perennials that don't get super-thick stems. Definitely a keeper. I don't know where Chessie's original post went, so here's the link: EGO POWER+ 56-Volt 24-in Dual Cordless Electric Hedge Trimmer 2.5 Ah (Battery & Charger Included) in the Cordless Electric Hedge Trimmers department at Lowes.com Next up is cordless electric hand pruners. There's a few models on Amazon I'm eyeing. I hate I'm getting to the point where even simple things like using hand pruners aggravates my hands, but it is what it is...