When you cut the melon in half, especially the cantaloupe, and 'gut it' using a scoop to get the seeds and membranes from the center out, then you flip it over, so the flat part is down on the cutting board. Before you cut all the rind off, and cube it: they look sort of, similar to, some what like turtles. Kinda funny to have a half dozen of them sitting there on the cutting board at the same time. Makes me think of a a former employer who used to enjoy saying, in reference to his teenaged slow-moving, possibly lazy, one-speed only delivery drivers: '...and he's off! like a herd of turtles!'
And standing there at the sink, pulling grapes off the stem, in huge quantities. Bags and bags and bags of bunches of grapes to fill a bin for the fruit salad makers to use in decorating the top of each bowl of cut fruit. As I was going through the bin full, looking to be sure I had pulled all the stems off all the grapes,stirring and stirring: it made me think about my mom, sitting on the porch with a dish-pan full of peas in her lap. When she would get through with the shelling, she would stir and stir the peas to cull out the ones that were spotty and be sure she had none left in the bottom of the big porcelain dishpan that she had overlooked, not yet shelled.
So - did I get a little weepy standing there over the grapes, thinking about pea-shelling on the back porch? Well, yea... sorta.
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