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jillnjo 07-19-2011 12:47 PM

Yes, I do wear gloves as much as I can because I hate how dry it makes my hands when I dig in dirt. I have to take them off when I can't tell feel enough to tell what I'm doing! Shoes all the time too, at least crocs or sandals-I hate crusty feet-aren't I sounding OLD?

quiltsRfun 07-19-2011 01:36 PM

Both shoes and gloves for me. I can't stand to go without.

QuiltingNinaSue 07-19-2011 01:41 PM

Yes, shoes and gloves and straw hat and long sleeved shirt and jeans. Stepped on a bee when I was eight...foot swelled up for a week. Insect bites also swell up. Work outside early in the mornings or late evenings with the heat so hot here.

CloverPatch 07-19-2011 01:42 PM

Gloves? No.
Shoes, If I have to leave to go somewhere. I never wear shoes while im at home. For anything. Yes yard work and all. Unless I have to go past the property line into the treeline, I see no need to wear shoes. Even then, I can just watch where I go I guess.

raedar63 07-19-2011 02:00 PM

Barefoot,braless and gloveless ;)

chickadeee55 07-19-2011 02:27 PM

Krystyna, I have to tell you this story, it just happened a week ago.

A girl I work with went home after work to find her husband pulling weeds from around newly planted little pine trees. So she thought she would help him finish up, and starting in helping him. No gloves, no hat. Well, two days later
she ended up in the hospital with huge red patches all over her body and severe itching and a fever. They did blood tests and all they told her was that she had a reaction to some weed that actually stuck her while she was pulling them. A week later her itching is gone, but the marks on her skin are still there. She was in misery.

She couldn't figure it out, because they didn't see any thing in the area that should have caused this. They know poisonous plants, and they didn't see any.

So, my thoughts, wear gloves to be safe.

IAmCatOwned 07-19-2011 02:31 PM

Me too. Shoes, gloves, jeans and sometimes long sleeved shirt depending on where I'm working. While I harvest without gloves, I never go without shoes in the garden.

CloverPatch 07-19-2011 02:38 PM


Originally Posted by raedar63
Barefoot,braless and gloveless ;)

Don't think I could do braless. Girls get a mind of their own when Im all sweaty, They seem to like to run around a bit. Better to keep them confined and in time out.

Jim 07-19-2011 02:50 PM

no gloves but spiders and snakes make shoes a requirement

brushandthimble 07-19-2011 03:10 PM

never used to wear either, now I do; edging and stepping on the shovel I need shoes.


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