I know this picture doesn't do my wound justice, but just imagine a huge punture in my nail and just to the right of it. Seriously. A handsaw did that! Who knew?
A while back, Parker grabbed a little bow and arrow set from the Dollar Tree. It did amazingly well considering the quality. However, yesterday after hours of abuse, all 3 arrows were broken beyond repair. So me, being the awesome mom that I am, said "Hey, we can make some great arrows that won't break near as easily!" Can't be hard. Right?
Everything was really easy and going pretty well. I cut two dowels in half to make four arrows. Then I glued a little pom-pom on the end to prevent any debilitating eye injuries(hopefully). They looked pretty awesome!
Then all I needed to do was cut a little notch into the tip for the string to go through. I thought it seemed simple enough. The first one went like a dream. Easy-peasy.
But then on the second one, I cut my pointer finger. Not too bad, but I realized it wasn't going to be as easy. Well, because I'm such a trooper (or stupid--one of the two), I kept on truckin'. I finally got that one done. But on the third one, I had a big slip and honestly, at first, I thought I might have done worse damage because there was a lot of blood flowing. After I ran it under cold water for a while, though, I could see it wasn't really that bad. But, dang, it hurt! So, the fourth arrow has nothing. I gave up. Or got smart. Hopefully it will work. It seems to work okay when I try it out. Hopefully it's good enough for four-year-old hands.
Lesson learned: handsaws are really sharp. Yikes!
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