Hazel had an unfortunate encounter with a prickly pear cactus today. Poor girl had two handfuls of tiny spines. She kept trying to wipe them off on her shirt and would cry at the sting. They were too small to pull with a tweezer and too many, too close together to get with my fingers. So, like a kindergartener with her own tube, I smeared her hands with Elmer's glue, let it dry, and pulled out the spines when I pulled off the dried glue. Still, it took two times of that treatment and I'm sure I missed a couple. But the "owies" are all better now.
