Audio Cassette digitizer (must be mac compatible) with or without tape deck OK. [links are examples]
Restrained colorful shirts Ed is not a “patterned shirt” person, but solids or quietly *fabric patterned” grey, blue, green, rust, etc. shirts in long and short sleeves are a major need this year. Courderoy, cotton, linen, suedecloth, rayon or other natural-feeling fiber, totally machine-washable preferred.
A good, comprehensive, poster-sized periodic table of elements
Heavy-duty nut-cracker
Ice Cream maker – 2 qt capacity minimum; 4 or 6 qt preferred; electric or hand crank
Piano tuning
Large Hammock
Cheap cotton work gloves (prefer the kind with little rubber bumps on them – they last longer)
Gift Certificates: Panera’s, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Stanley’s Greenhouse (Knoxville), Amazon.com, www.sheetmusicplus.com -gift cert. link at bottom of page
Garden stuff: [Knoxville Seed and Greenhouse Supply on Rutledge Pike is the only known local source for the following]
Extra, EXTRA Large plastic “nursery” pots (not decorative) – as big as you can find, nothing is too big!
“Fafford 3B” potting soil – only the “3B” mix, please; bags run almost $10/ea these days
Black Hen fertilizer bags
Blank tags – sold by box of 1,000, or bundles of 100; I use a box per year easily
Gardeners marker – a special, fade-resistant marker for tags
Gift certificate – if they have’m
Music (CDs):
Gift Certificate for Amazon – for obscure classical stuff he wants but no one ever gives him
Joan Armatrading’s 1st Album, “Whatever’s For Us” – hard to find, but Amazon has copies, new or used
“Dog & Butterfly” – Heart
“Court & Spark” – Joni Mitchell
“Friends” – Elton John, early work, actually from a movie soundtrack from late 1960’s
