I’m not the most adroit of do-it-yourselfers by any stretch of the imagination; in my considered opinion yards and gardens are places to snooze on drowsy summer afternoons in between sips of iced lemonade and a lazy swat at the occasional fly who deems it necessary to invade my immediate airspace.

Lightweight Rotary Blade Hedge Trimmer

All that green stuff found therein, some of it quite pleasant-smelling with ornately colorful tips, remained something of a mystery to me. “Gardening is a pastime fraught with peril!” I’d often vociferated with some exaggerated passion when my significant other deigned it necessary to include me in “a spot of light weeding”.

“Light weeding” generally seemed to involve unattractively-heavy manual labor, and not least among those aforementioned perils are the implements used to “lightly weed” said green stuff. Violently sharp, spinning blades on whirring electrical things did not generally punctuate my avenues of endeavor. I liked it that way. My fingers liked it that way. My lazy lemonade-sipping predilection liked it that way, and I used my fear of being dismembered to optimum effect in the excuse department. That was the case, however, until some bright spark invented the Lightweight Rotary Blade Hedge Trimmer from Hammacher Schlemmer. (more…)