Today, Garden Rant had a post about gloves. They are giving away some women's Ethel gardening gloves to the commenters who post the best comments. I don't need any new gardening gloves, but that doesn't mean I don't want any. I have an embarrassingly large number of gardening gloves, each with a different use. I have some nubby rubber ones for dealing with mud and yukky substances. I have nitrile ones for planting and other chores. There are cloth and stretchy ones for pruning, and leather ones for heavy work, like helping Garden Man haul, chop or stack wood. I even have a pair devoted exclusively to pulling poison ivy. Here are a few of my glovies - yes there are more, but I won't tell you how many. And if you'll notice, they are ALL dirty, except the lime green ones. Those are for pruning, and I wash them every now and again.
And with my most humble apologies to Malvina Reynolds . . . .
Little glovies, in the garden tote,
Little glovies made out of different stuff,
Little glovies, little glovies, little glovies, none the same.
There's a green pair, and a pink pair, and a blue pair, and yellow pair.
And they're all made out of different stuff, and none of them are the same.
And the glovies, in the garden tote
Get used for all different kinds of things,
Where my hands need little glovies, little glovies, none the same.
Some for pruning, some for raking, some for planting, some for chopping wood,
And they're all made out of different stuff, and none of them are the same.
I could go on, but what's the point? How many pairs to YOU have?