You can easily soak your scissors/pruning shears in a 50% solution of bleach too. It is as effective as rubbing/isopropyl alcohol, and probably more effective. Jim would get sterile tools by torching but wiping/soaking is really closer to disinfection than it is to sterilization.
drdawg (Dr. Kenneth Ramsey)
The reason it's so hard to lose weight when you get up in age is because your body and your fat have become good friends.