Everyday Systems

Thanks, Rheinhard (did I spell that correctly?) I'll have to figure out how to post a picture. As you surmised, pulling some old socks over the hammerhead, alternating the direction each time, makes a snug and neat covering. I first tried an old fleece jacket, but it came off a couple of times. Also...

I'm a 72-year-old rural dweller, and one day last month while shoveling gravel on my driveway, I noticed how much my core muscles were being worked. I later checked in an old exercise book called "Heavyhands", and saw that the writer had promoted shoveling as an exercise for abs and back muscles. He...