{"id":8885,"date":"2014-07-18T19:43:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T23:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/?p=8885"},"modified":"2014-07-18T19:43:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T23:43:37","slug":"wildflowers-watermelon-and-summer-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2014\/07\/wildflowers-watermelon-and-summer-negligence.html","title":{"rendered":"wildflowers, watermelon, and summer negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2014-07-18<\/a>This is part of what I did today. Certainly the better part.<\/p>\n

After an early morning — spent w\/ a lawyer, not every my favourite thing to do — my sister called and needed help. She’d been left holding the bag (actually, 6 bags) for her HS reunion gig tonight, and hoped her big sis would help out.<\/p>\n

Of course!<\/p>\n

So I picked some flowers from the garden, she picked up Thai soup, and we got to work cutting up fruit for trays, and bread for cocktail sandwiches. And I did just fine until…the watermelon <cue solemn voice of foreboding>.<\/p>\n

This next photo is NSF blood-phobes. I cut my finger w\/ our verrry sharp new cleaver. You might say… I clove it. BIG slice into the finger and its poor nail. It’s like the WORST papercut. \"cut<\/a>Stitches almost certainly won’t help, so I didn’t even bother.<\/p>\n

Sigh. My sister was horrified — it bled alot<\/em>. But it’s stopped that, and left this interesting pattern of honeycomb on the Bandaid that had nothing like that before it wrapped my finger.<\/p>\n

You’ll be seeing shorter posts for a few days, I assure you. Typing is… iffy. Make that ouch-y.<\/p>\n

I still feel like Isaac Bashevis Singer, though: if it hadn’t been this, who knows what it might have been? And it was great<\/em> to see my sis! I blame the whole thing on the watermelon, personally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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