Are you ready for an early spring?
Tool maintenance is one of many chores that I’m apt to procrastinate doing. The other day I took advantage of that weird energy and cleaned and sharpened my tools because it occurred to me that I’ll probably be using them sooner rather than later. But after I’ve scrubbed the tub, dusted bookshelves, sorted my stacks of stuff into different stacks and finally gotten down to it, I can easily say that there’s nothing more gratifying (this time of year) than honing a grungy pair of snips back... Not that I’m complaining about the possibility of spring coming early. It looks for all the world like spring might arrive before we ever get a chance to complain about winter. I know in some parts of the country February signals the official start of early-spring, but this is New England and we really ought to be under a blanket of snow. ) I had to invent excuses to make cups of hot chocolate and I didn’t get nearly as much reading done as I’d have liked.
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