Left Handed Gloves
We are a family of right handed people, it is obvious from all the left handed gloves that are not nearly ready to discard as the the right handed gloves that are shredded beyond recognition.
This glut of left handed gloves do not get discarded as they are orphaned from their mates, we save them up because they become necessary during this time of the year. It is when we are feeding buckets and buckets of sliced apples to the bulls and critters in the show barn when those left handed gloves are needed to protect our palms from slices of the sharp (and sometimes not-so-sharp) knives that we use. It is also important to use the gloves to protect against bee stings. With the fruit is at high sugar content and nearly ready to rot, the bees come into the barns in droves to sip at the sweetness.
I have found that I can only slice up about a half bucket at a time before dumping the contents for the critters because the bees get too aggressive if I tarry too long. The bees don’t bother the cows at all even though they are hanging on the fruit as the critters chow down.
This week the fruit, especially the last of the pear crop that we picked up is very juicy and those left handed gloves get coated in sticky fruit goodness quickly. It is a good thing I have lots of extra gloves hanging around so they can be washed and laid out to dry while I have others to wear.
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In the hot, dry summer when I need to put a slow soak on new shrubs or trees, I tie that orphan left-hand glove to my garden hose. With the faucet on low, the glove’s fingers distribute water around the plant without running off when it isn’t needed.