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Gardening, Tim Taylor Style

So it's Memorial Day and the weather is cooperating. It's beautiful outside.

Time for some gardening - power gardening.

Shovels, rakes and hoes? Girly gardening.

So I'm out there in the new bed created by losing a tree. There is still one huge root left - buried about six inches below the surface - that's creating problems for the plantings.

Problem: Root.

Solution: Power tools!

I'm out there with a circular saw, Saws-All, drill with speed-bore bits and various other pieces of hardware. An hour later I call it quits, dripping wet with sweat. (Just got out of the shower; I feel almost human again.)

Who won? A draw. I got a bunch of the root out, but not as much as I would have liked to have removed. My kingdom for a chain saw...