Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote in
:

> I was prepping some tomatoes by slicing them in half and
> removing the seeds using my favorite tomato de-seeding tool: a
> grapefruit spoon. It does a great job of a couple of kitchen
> chores such as de-seeding tomatoes and hulling strawberries.
> I'm sure there are a variety of kitchen tools that weren't
> designed for the jobs they get used for in addition to the
> jobs they *are* used for - not to mention a variety of tools
> that weren't designed to get anywhere near a kitchen, but can
> be found in kitchens nonetheless! [Blame Alan a/k/a hahabogus
> for this one.]
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

I use a certain knife to cut smaller limbs off trees.
And certain BBQ (long handled) tools for gardening,
digging and turning the soil. Heavy duty scissors for pruning
plants. BBQ skewers to poke additional holes in belts.
Bent tined fork to scramble eggs, dig in the garden, turn soil.
(Different forks of course.) ;-)

I use my little meat tenderizer mallet to drive nails many times.

And, all my sterling silver soup spoons are flattened on the bottom from
my son and daughter using them in the sandbox to flatten and tamp down
their "cakes." Funny, we couldn't afford to buy little shovels for
them, but had two sets of sterling flatware for them to use for play!

Libby

Fred/Libby Barclay wrote:
> I use my little meat tenderizer mallet to drive nails many times.
>
> And, all my sterling silver soup spoons are flattened on the bottom from
> my son and daughter using them in the sandbox to flatten and tamp down
> their "cakes." Funny, we couldn't afford to buy little shovels for
> them, but had two sets of sterling flatware for them to use for play!
>
> Libby
>
Lovely image that conjures up--the importance of your kids and
their play as vs. inanimate objects! I love it!

--
Jean B.