Some gardeners are known to have a "Green Thumb", while others tend to have a "Brown Thumb", my gardening efforts have rewarded me with a "Purple Thumb".
As the Summer gardening season winds down, I started working on garden projects for next year. One project was to establish a new asparagus bed by repurposing an old raised bed garden that needed some repairs to the wooden sides. The repairs involved nailing pressure treated wood over sections of rotted railroad ties. Since I would be driving large galvanized nails into railroad ties, I remembered Newton's second law of motion (F=ma) which states, force (F) equals mass (m) times acceleration (a) and selected the heavier mass of a 28 ounce framing hammer to generate more force. The first couple of nails went in easily with the framing hammer until complacency took over and the misguided framing hammer couldn't distinguish a thumb nail from a galvanized nail.
It brings new meaning to the phrase "May the Force be with you".
