Busy Bees

Puck began his day with “The Brave Little Toaster”, asking about where the “vacoom” (vacuum cleaner) was, and watching Lila wrap Collette’s old Felicity doll’s battered red hair into dreadlocks.
At about 8:30 that morning, the water was shut off, due to construction on the road outside of the neighborhood. Carrie kept a cut crystal pitcher of water on the counter throughout the day, which ended up being hardly used until three o’clock, when the faucets began fluttering back to life with thunderous rushes of choking spasms. Carrie became slightly concerned when the bathroom tap began spouting liquid of a yellowish nature. But after awhile, the water seemed to return to its usual shade.
That afternoon, Francis was very busy in the department of negotiations, in a great attempt to convince Carrie to allow him to spend the evening with his buddies in exchange for him giving Carrie a foot massage. When this attempt was unsuccessful, Francis convinced Linnea to sweet-talk Carrie into allowing him to go, in exchange for convincing Joe to give Linnea his old “candy machine”. This was also a failure, as Carrie shook her yellow turbaned head with another emphatic “no”.
Francis resigned himself to staying at home for the rest of the afternoon, with a sigh, and resorted to blowing up the pyramids with animated tanks .
Then Rose returned from work with a bag of Olga’s food before cranking out a paper on Middle Eastern politics.
And Joe had put in a long day of school and work from eight till eight.
As the evening came on, Puck marched around the house in Linnea’s black chucks, thinking that he was very important.
Back home again, OLeif spent a few minutes before Puck’s dinner, sending him on a brief photo shoot in his borrowed chucks, before he, too, got back to all of his many papers and projects over a plate of chocolate chip cookies.
Collette spent her evening wrapped up in the new afghan and the next chapters in “Gone with the Wind”.