Comments on: be kind to your tools

By: cracked heel repair

cracked heel repair — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:02:44 +0000

soft. Best money i spent!

By: jo

jo — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:19:02 +0000

I can just see you….. hands up, opening the door with your elbows…

By: ricki

ricki — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:46:24 +0000

Jo~Ah yes, the ewes are the producers and the cows are merely the target audience. Good point.
Short and stubby it is for me year round…even having convinced self that i like the look (self-delusion?)
No prob with the sheets as long as i sit there like a freshly scrubbed operating room doc for a few minutes while the goop soaks in.

By: joco

joco — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:29:54 +0000

Ewes will shout: Misrepresentation!
After all, it is them that produce the lanolin.

I am trying not to picture your sheets. Your door-handles may be non-sticky, but what about the bedclothes?
Maybe your lanolin cream isn’t like mine, which is so greasy that these days I put it round the outside of tubs to keep the snails from creeping up them.
Have you all had the big nail cutting ceremony? They were just nice after the winter. Now it is all back to short and stubby.

By: ricki

ricki — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:47:43 +0000

Loree~Back in the day…when I was doing graphic design…I actually had a client who needed labels for a similar product. I was like you: laughing/crying all the way. But man, does this stuff work!

By: Loree

Loree — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:33:55 +0000

I really would have liked to learn that a cow did bribe you to write this post.

I remember the first time I saw Bag Balm on the shelves, I laughed so hard I cried. I thought they were just making it up (about putting it on the cows teats). Now I am married to an ex-farm boy and I know differently. I still haven’t tried it though.

By: ricki

ricki — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:22:26 +0000

Grace~Clay! That says it all!

By: Grace

Grace — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:34:44 +0000

Hi Ricki~~ The other day I was outside, dilly dallying as I’m wont to do while gardening. Suddenly a little voice prompted me to walk back to the house and get my gloves before going any further with my dillying or dallying. Did I listen? Nope. Little voices are easy to ignore. By day’s end, my hands were soiled, literally. Soap and water to the rescue. No problem. Yet. By bedtime that little voice was big and boisterous and all, I told you so-ish. My hands were irritatingly dry and in need of a big time rescue. Done. Lesson learned. Soil will dry out your skin faster than concrete in Phoenix. Ooh, how quickly one forgets!

Thanks to you, methinks I’ll turn up the volume on the little voice next time I’m at the One Stop.

By: ricki

ricki — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:13:49 +0000

Deborah~Thanks for stopping by…it is always exciting when a new voice shows up here. Your floral arrangements are stunning…and yes, most creative endeavors are incompatible with the perfect manicure.

By: Deborah at Kilbourne Grove

Deborah at Kilbourne Grove — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:48:50 +0000

Between being a gardener and a florist my hands always look terrible. I tend to forget about it until I am at an event and accidentally look at them, yikes! It can be quite embarassing. Thanks for the tip on Bag Balm, if it is good enough for a cows teats, it is good enough for mine (my hands I mean).