Horticulture

TOOLING AROUND

there is the one who loves tools and will sometimes buy them with merely some nebulous, vague future need in mind. They do this knowing full well that their spouse might notice. And then ask questions. Hard questions. And that one of their answers might be, “I don’t know when I’ll use it.” And another,

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