If you’ve read us for any length of time, you know we have a thing for Gimpliments with LED lights.

Well check out these illuminated knitting needles and crochet hooks!

Their inventors say they are great for working with dark yarns, knitting at the movies or camping outdoors under the stars.

They’d be a fun gift for someone who loves needlework but needs a little help identifying where the tip is in fuzzy yarns.

Eds note: Cait and Marty don’t knit. Marty is, in fact, knitting impaired. She tried to learn to knit and her project morphed from what was supposed to be a sweater into a poncho that grew so out of control that Marty abandoned it and her cat then claimed it as his bed for the rest of his life. Eddie loved that sweater-poncho-shawl-bedspread-tarp.

If you’re like us, you’re always grabbing at the closest thing when it comes time to take something out of the oven or to wipe your hands while cooking.

This sturdy cotton apron puts it all at your disposal with oven mitts sewn into the front flaps and two buttons at the waist from which to hang dish towels.

This apron from Holland emphasizes safety and economy - giving you a lot of bang for the buck. Available in olive or navy.

Graduation is a great time to give students in your lives functional, reasonably priced, sure-to-be-used Gimpliments - which benefit everyone, not just the Gimpy.

Anyone of the following would be appreciated but the ultimate would be a “care package” of several Gimpliments sent later this summer, or in early fall, when the new grad is setting up a dorm room or a first apartment:

The top of the list is, or course, Mr. 7 Hands - a compact, multitasking screwdriver that comes to the rescue in myriad ways.

These self-adhesive labels will get a lot of use in identifying “stuff” in shared dorm rooms and the often revolving cast of roommates.

We are big on the Sylvania Power flashlight. Giving this gift to a young person will let them have a light on when they come home after dark and a flash light in emergencies - without the need for them to be responsible enough to remember to get batteries.

If you can afford to step up a little in the budget department, the Surefire Executive Elite light is a lifetime investment in safety.

And finally, if you really want to knock their socks off, give them Apple’s iPhone - which has just come down in price, remains amazingly easy to use and does more stuff than ever.

Marty dreamed that she, Cait and their dogs were living in the Doomsday Seed Vault near the top of the world.

In reality, the vault is frozen and filled with thousands of seed racks. But in Marty’s dream the vault was a huge, lush, exotic greenhouse where the seeds needed to save the earth were growing profusely from the walls and ceiling.

The space was easy to move around in. And because this was a dream, all the plants took care of themselves - no weeding, watering, pruning, bending or hauling. A Gimpy Eden. Our sole purpose was to wander and admire the magnificence.

If you want to learn more about the real Seed Vault, click here to read the New Yorker story by John Seabrook or here to see a video.

We, Cait & Marty, had a new roof put on the duplex we share. We both thought the young roofers were great, but for different reasons than we would have if we were younger.

A younger Cait & Marty would have put lawn chairs out back and sat for hours admiring those “hot,” tanned, and muscular shirtless young men.

Instead, we brought them ice tea and ice cream and then withdrew to talk about how polite they were and how well they cleaned up after themselves as they worked.

Sad but true.

We are always designing, at least in our hearts and heads, the Ultimate Accessible Dream Home.

Our dream home’s latest feature is a Toe Kick Vaccum that eliminates bending or trying to coordinate a dust pan and broom. It would be great for anyone but fantastic for Gimpy people, even those in wheelchairs and walkers.

It requires you to have a central vacuum system, so if you are renovating or building, consider installing one. This system could actually make it fun to sweep dirt and dust bunnies - right into the wall.

Eds. Note: Our Dream Home also contains the Washlet, this bathroom, features from these homes, this attached to the house and this in the garage.

Forbes Magazine has a piece on a Georgia couple undertaking - no pun intended - what they call “termination renovation” of their home.

Dan and Mary Emma McConaughey, both in their 70s, want to stay in their home and know they need to equip it with grab bars, easier access to storage space and a wheelchair-accessible bath.

Click here to learn more and see their photos.

Raised wood garden beds are a boon for people with physical limitations. Yes, most of us need to find someone to build them, but their fairly simple construction won’t cost you an arm and a leg.

The Web has many sites that tell you how to build them but we like the two named below, especially the one that suggests putting leaves in a garbage can and zapping them with a string cutter to speed their rotting time.

Click here and here to read the articles. Click here to watch a video of Paul James building the bed. It’s Video No. 4 in the Gardening By The Yard series.

Eds. Note: This being a Web site for people with disabilities, I’m torn about my costing an “arm and a leg” comment. I find it utterly inappropriate and spot on at the same time.

We are agog over a water-saving toilet featuring a real fish aquarium in the toilet tank.

AquaOne’s Fish ‘n Flush is double-hulled so the fish don’t flush. The 1.6-gallon toilet tank can’t be seen behind the 2.2-gallon aquarium, nor can the two aquarium aerators and filter.

Megan Fernandez, 23, of Tampa, Fla., says her Fish ‘n Flush is popular, especially with her young niece. “She is in the bathroom all day long when she visits,” Fernandez said. “She loves that toilet.”

Eds Note: Being aquarium enthusiasts, we do caution about the limitations of the Flush ‘n Fish. The web site shows a saltwater Clown fish and a tank of freshwater fish. The tank is too small for a Clown fish or that many freshwater fish to survive.

If you get a Fish ‘n Flush, or any aquarium, please research what will live happily in your tank.