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