| 41. | If I miss any shoots-- and that's easily done because they emerge by the dozens-- I reach for the pruning shears.
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| 42. | For instance, I use my father's pruning shears and got the hoops for staking my peonies from my mother-in-law's Illinois garden.
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| 43. | Like the cardinal and the lone bluejay, I just look, not even thinking of picking up the pruning shears just yet.
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| 44. | Or, " It was so cold that Jack Frost was nipping at my nose with a pair of pruning shears ."
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| 45. | Can't you just see Lucy and Ricky brandishing pruning shears at each other, heatedly arguing over how to trim the shrubbery?
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| 46. | There's actually a lot more these days of almost every kind of tool, such as pruning shears, which come in every size.
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| 47. | Other residents used chain saws and pruning shears to trim tree limbs away from their homes and raked up tinder-dry pine needles.
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| 48. | When the children are terrified by a stray cat in the garden, the son kills it with a pair of pruning shears.
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| 49. | My pruning shears almost always have some tree sap or other black sticky gunk on them, so the steel wool comes in handy.
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| 50. | Now's the time I haul out my pruning shears and head for hours of fun, cutting up a storm; I love to prune.
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