August 5

Thursday, August 5, 2010

In the night: 2:53: thunderstorms. And nothing very lengthy in duration.

After three weeks of break, it was back to Bible study.

On the way over to the Silverspoon’s, with further essays from Pico Iyer, Puck was busy commanding the stoplights when to change color.

“I told him to turn green, not red, Daddy,” said Puck. “But he can’t talk.”

For breakfast, Gloria had scrambled eggs with mozzarella and garlic, and there were slices of juicy red tomatoes, and of course, bacon, ready for them upon arrival. As soon as Puck walked in the house, he could smell it.

“You have bacon, Nana?” was his initial greeting.

In the relatively mild morning, for August, Puck enjoyed playing in the nursery in the basement with a little girl, supervised by their pretty babysitter, ‘Miss Stacie-June’, one of Puck’s favorites. She seemed to be a favorite with all of the kids.

In the afternoon, out to the backyard for sidewalk ‘chog’ (chalk) as Puck still called it stashed in an empty biscotti box which Puck put onto his head and called himself an ‘astronaut’. Then the garden hose and a secret stash of Swiss milk chocolate for Collette from Gloria.

Meanwhile, Gloria and Izzy were busy getting Izzy dual-enrolled at Lindenwood for the autumn semester. Afterwhich… Charlie dropped in to pick up Izzy to prepare for Charlie’s Eagle Court of Honor that evening at seven o’clock.

“La situación (as the Argentines call their economic crisis –- inflation was recently projected at more than four million percent per year)…”

~ Pico Iyer, 1990