cantaloupe dude

Cantaloupe dude is what happens when one fails to listen.

I should have heard the five year old’s urgent requests to try our first home-grown melon.

But I was not listening.

In the background to my own thoughts, I heard some question about cantaloupe.

I think I recall saying we’d carve it later.

Distracted as I was, preparing to turn cucumbers into pickles… while brainstorming a batch of blackberry-rhubarb jam…while considering ways to use crooked neck summer squash… while thinking that I should I be making something for dinner just as soon as the cukes begin soaking…

And then I turned around to find cantaloupe dude staring me down with his silly etched grin.

It’s hard not to laugh when the five-year-old does the things you used to do…the things you still consider doing…if only you paid more attention to the really important things in life.

PS: A bowl of melon can constitute dinner at least once a week…right?

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