Memorial Weekend: Sunday

Today, Dearest & I drove into town to grab a quick dinner before doing more gardening. After dinner we stopped at Tractor Supply to pick up some drinks and ask about the broken hoe that we had bought the previous day. Unfortunately, we did not bring the hoe with us, but they said we could bring it back and get a new one or a refund. Assuming that we would go back to town on Memorial Day, for dinner or more gardening supplies, I decided we might as well get a new hoe and not waste a trip to come back out today.

I went back to the gardening tool section. Everything was just as I had left it the day before. There was one more of the Ash shaft hoes, but I figured I should get the fiberglass shaft. The fiberglass was $25 but it had a nicer head (single piece head), was bright red, and it had a 25 year warantee. Relunctly, I purchased the fiberglass shaft hoe.

We drove back to the new house. I put on my gardening shoes and got to work in the garden. I was testing out my new hoe and making some rows. I was about a quarter way through my first row and the hoe was cutting into the ground pretty nicely. I put the hoe down to help Dearest and she picked it up to use it. She was looking at the head because it felt loose to her, next thing I know the head fell off the hoe. Yep, it was broken... best part was that it broke within 2 minutes of us using the hoe. Now I will admit, the ground hadn't been worked in a few years, it did have some rocks, and the ho was really dull... but for a $25 hoe to break within 2 minutes of being used?

We called it a day. Guess I will have to take both of them to be returned tomorrow.