As much as I’m allowing myself to be more girly, I’m still very much a tomboy when it comes to some things. Like… power tools!! [insert Tim Allen man-grunting here. I can't even make the noise so I damned sure can't spell it.]

My husband was amused this summer when he observed that, within a single afternoon, I went from cutting lumber on a mitre saw and hammering together a fence, to cutting fabric and sewing a summer dress.

What can I say? Life is way too interesting and fun to confine myself to one gender sterotype. For the record, our daughter knows how to change a tire and what a Robertson screwdriver is, and our sons know how to cook and (kinda) sew and do their own laundry, too.

Anyway, powertools… oh, yeah, baby. I’m not quite as ga-ga about them as guys tend to be, but I do appreciate and enjoy things that plug in, spin around really fast, and make short work of something that I’m trying to accomplish, all while employing mechanics that even my feeble girl mind can easily grasp.

Unlike computers, which are just evil, evil beasts.

(What? You were thinking there might be some dirty joke on the horizon there, weren’t you? Tsk.)

A guy I don’t even know emailed me a huge video file today about a table saw. If only everyone understood about Snopes and YouTube, my inbox would be a happier place. Still, it’s a pretty damned cool saw! In fact, thinking about it, I wouldn’t be surprised if a mother or wife came up with the idea for it – since we tend to go grey fast watching our husbands and sons play work with cool power toys tools.