Why we should just BUY jelly, not make it

Life lesson #348 was learned today in the Ellison kitchen.  Due to
dramatically rising food costs, I decided that I would save money and
put up many bottles of strawberry jelly.  What I didn't factor in to
the cost was what a trip to the emergency room would add!

My son Aaron decided that it would be interesting to see what would
happen if he put his finger on the blade of the rotating electric hand
blender...while it was rotating.  The result?  His pointer finger on
his left hand became hamburger.  Ever seen what it can to do a
strawberry?  It does the same thing to a finger.  The finger was
shredded to the bone.  After Aaron passed out in the kitchen, we took
a very fast path to the emergency room where the doctor lost count of
the stitches after 25 of them.

Aaron is now resting in bed and preparing his speech to his siblings
on what happens when you are tempting to try experiments with sharp
blades.  WALK AWAY!!