Ever since the last watermelon that I purchased a week or so ago I realized one watermelon is just too big for me. Even if I am able to get it on the table and then cut it up it's just too much fruit for me to use as one person. I think if I work at it the right way I can probably process and use in a reasonable amount of time a half a watermelon So to that end I've been thinking why don't I ask someone to go in with a watermelon with me. It's Thursday morning and I got myself relatively presentable- - without shoes of course- - cooked myself a real breakfast and went to my coffee group at 9:30 I even managed to be there a little bit early. I've been thinking about this all week but I wanted to bring up at some time during the group, to ask if anybody wanted to go in a half on a watermelon. I of course spaced off the whole question until later on afterwards, after the group had broken up I was visiting with one of the group members and I brought up the concept of what she thought of the whole half a watermelon project. I told her I would be willing to go half on a watermelon and she totally was into the idea. So as soon as the group ended and that I was finished with my wound care nurse who came soon after the meeting was over. I went across the street and seriusly checked out the Watermelons at Macy's Market. Again, I was dumbfounded how large these beasts were. A whole cardboard box full of pretty huge watermelons. Of course the Watermelons are in the vegetable section and I have- someone who's become a relatively close friend in vegetable and fruit section. I don't know if this guy has any real power but he seems to always be there whenever I'm there at the fruit and vegetable section. He seems to know his stuff especially the whole idea of slapping the watermelon too here whether or not it's a good melon or not. He seems to know what he's doing and I leave it at that and hope that he's serious. I asked him if he would pick out a watermelon for me relatively small but firm and hopefully sweet. I endured his whole slapping and thumping of various watermelons make it all kinds of professional sounds of watermelon discernment. Eventually produced a relatively small melon which was quite large but look small compared to the other melons in the Box. I still had a few things to pick up so he took the put it on the will call desk.
What I did was tip my chair back and raise the foot pedals up high enough to cause a cradle that I can set the melon in too for the trip home. I really didn't want to lose the watermelon between here and the intersection where I cross to get to the apartments. They had to do some real finagling with my lower legs I'm sure these guys hated touching my legs but it was important that I have the melon anchored in there good which ended up being the case with them lifting up one leg it's throwing in the watermelon and put in the leg back down causing a watermelon lockdown. I went slower than usual and got home finagle the way to get the watermelon up onto the table and actually cut the watermelon in half it took some doing and using my new rocker knife and my elevator function still in my chair was able to get high enough to really do a good cut pretty close to half and half. Clarice my neighbor upstairs who went in half on the watermelon with me had given me $10 bill that I elected not to use in use my debit card for my whole purchase. The watermelon came to about $7 in a few change. It was quite a heavy watermelon at 39 cents a pound I think it was around 20 lb a little less. I had to really do some fancy moving around in my chair and tilting back but I was finally able to lift this melon from my lap onto the table. I'd spend some time actually cleaning off the table with enough room to do this operation. When I finally had enough confidence and enough height in my power chair I pulled up my big butcher knife and made the first cut then replaced it with my new rocker knife and finished cutting the beast in half. I was pleased the the watermelon halves were almost equal in size. I gave my friend the larger of the two halves it seemed only right.
I haven't heard how clarice's processing went but I spent a good hour cutting my melon in half as evenly as I could. I washed out a pretty large stainless steel container and set it aside to put in the cut up pieces of watermelon for my half and the time came. It was quite intimidating trying to cut this watermelon fairly. I finally was able to do that with the newly washed large butcher knife as well as the large rocker knife I have for cutting large vegetables and fruit. The mess I made was not too significant I dropped only two pieces of watermelon to the floor in this process. There was still cereal boxes left standing on the table of the watermelon cut. We eventually move the the bag's Goods to another place and I set my cleaned off the table top and after a while had the watermelon cut in half and the other half step set aside. I ran into Clarice who was in the process of heading out to the senior center to play bingo. Long story short was I was able to cut the watermelon into respectable halves
and I took the larger of the two halves over to my friend Clarice apartment and we got the transition finished. Clarice even ended up giving me $4 for my efforts and getting a watermelon. I made a mess on my table of course, watermelons very very messy. But I got most of the melon my half and cut up into different sizes in the silver container. I couldn't find the plastic wrap to go over the top so it's just sitting in my refrigerator and I'll probably eat it in the next day or so. I found out this is definitely, buying the watermelon with somebody else, the best way to purchase something large that you have to carry home somehow on your power chair. It took some finagling but I was finally able to get the watermelon off my lap and onto the table where I was able to first cut it in half and then cut my half into sections that will fit into a container that I can keep in the fridge and if I'm lucky stretch some kind of plastic wrap over the top. I'm looking forward now too maybe Sunday night with watermelon and cheddar cheese slices my favorite Sunday evening summer treat…
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