All Creatures, Fat or Great
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
In which the good old redbirds are awesome again…
When Collette opened her bedroom door that morning, Puck was standing there with an entire armload of stuffed animals, including a brown bear almost as big as he was.
“I’m taking these to see Ketseh and Earnest,” he explained simply.
When they arrived at the house, Puck handed the stuffed Longhorn to Carrie…
“That’s the old grandpa bull, just like Grandpa.”
And when he brought the stuffed bunny back to see Mom…
“He’s a little bit grumpy this morning.”
“Oh, well maybe he wants a carrot,” Mom suggested.
“No. I already carrotted him.”
It was shortly later that Collette called up Francis for math…
“Math, Francis.”
“I’m busy right now.”
“I brought chicken.”
Thump, thump, thump…
Francis was in the kitchen in record-breaking time.
And Puck did ‘some cheers’ with Carrie over a bag of almonds.
As soon as Collette called Francis to the dining room table for algebra, Pumpkin, gold-striped orange ribbon tied around her fat neck, decided that she, too, had been summoned. She stomped across Collette’s laptop keyboard and plopped herself down on Collette’s notebook. However, this wasn’t good enough for the recently finally diagnosed ‘morbidly obese’ feline. Shortly later, and repeatedly, she was seen couched comfortably on the keyboard in a permanent lounge.
Meanwhile, Francis was busy performing a duel between his pen and a tiny black spider on the table, Mexican hat-dance style.
Shortly after grilled cheese and to-mah-to soup for lunch, Francis left for a merit badge council and to work with Creole, and Mom, Carrie-Bri, and Puck departed for Ketseh’s visit with Dr. Glacier. He was diagnosed with some sort of lung inflammation, and an ear infection.
The whole day was gray and cold, just the way October ought to be.
Joe returned from work for a bowl piled high in orange sherbet.
A Hallowe’en flick was turned on for Puck as Collette continued five hours of algebra and geometry with Linnea over a few stacks of Jack ‘o Lantern Joe-Joe’s shared between family members.
As Mom and Carrie prepared to leave for groceries, Carrie, attempting to aid a fallen black wasp on the porch, was stung. That pain would last for awhile. Collette still had a battle scar from her own former encounter.
And shortly after OLeif returned from work, Cecil Whittaker’s thick crust pizzas were ordered in for a celebratory kick-off of the World Series, beginning at 7:05.
After a tense three hours of frozen game, St. Louis was tingling from the adrenaline of victory.