I fixed that link - we're on the same wavelength as far as chopping and digging with one tool. Good luck finding the perfect gloves for that work. I tend to buy polyester gloves with the palm and fingers coated with nitrile for gardening. Getting them in 10-packs is cheaper, but every time I go looking for more the previous version is no longer available and the next batch of bulk gloves are cheaper and flimsier. In the back of the SUV I have a pair of leather work gloves stashed (the heavy ones with a big cuff) for when I handle lumber. I always forget them and have over the years bought several pairs of them at the store for loading lumber. Finally got smart and left at least one pair in the car.

This morning I took the time to connect the Bluetooth of new pair of comfortable headphones (a birthday gift to myself—they go completely over the ears, not on ear or in ear) to my phone so the Libby app will now let me listen to audiobooks. For weeks I've been reading a book on paper but it came through in the unabridged audio version so I've synced the recording to my reading progress.

House plants have received attention this week, and right now I have several pots of pothos being sprouted from what was once a long vine (some in soil, others in water, to see which works best). I also have a couple of plants that have failed to thrive and one may go to my daughter (she seems to have a magic touch when it comes to succulents).

The radio is on to NPR this morning and they just played a story about adverse possession of property. The owner of property was set to sell some but it was discovered the neighbor's goat fence encroached on their land in a wooded area between them (spoiler alert - he lost his property to the neighbor). When I was in college I housesat for an old friend who was suing a neighbor over his encroachment on several acres (he lost, after several years and going to the state supreme court). In my instance here, the fenceline was several feet inside my property line when I moved in (there were a couple of fences side by side). I gradually was able to remove the old fences, but when the new neighbor bought the property the former owner and I both asked that he have the property surveyed and put the new fence he intended on the actual line, not on the existing line. That way I got a long strip six feet wide back. If I'd ignored it, I could have lost it simply by the fence having been in place for so long with no correction or challenge. #FirstWorldProblems