Color & Games
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Wednesday was a quiet day spent mostly over at the house.
The first matter of business was for Carrie-Bri to dye Collette’s hair. It had been awhile since she had dyed it – about nine months. And this time, it ended up a dark brown and European red mix. Rose also pulled out a box of color for a change of her look, also going with a dark brown. Puck studied Collette’s new hair color, still dripping from the wash, and laughed. Apparently he thought his mom looked funny.
Carrie was off to a concert that night with Elizabeth and Lucia, now only five days before catching a plane for “Down Unda”. Rose drove off later in the afternoon for a movie gathering at the West’s.
And the Cool Kaleidoscope cookies were made with Linnea in the early afternoon. Linnea added the drops of food coloring and Collette mixed it in to each lump of dough. Then the four colors were rolled into logs, cut in half, piled on top of one another, and twisted together into a larger log of bright yellow, pink, green, and blue. After sitting for an hour in the fridge, they were sliced, their edges rolled in alternating stripes of pink and white sugar, and put into the oven. Collette also remembered to bring back three of the finished warm cookies that evening.
Meanwhile, Mom had found another section of white picket fence at The Robin’s Nest and brought it back to arrange by the mailbox.
Before Collette and Puck headed back home, Lucia pulled up just in time to say hello to her little buddy. Puck, however, was too sleepy to hand out a smile.
As Collette buckled Puck into the backseat of the car, Linnea ran out to discuss Vacation Bible School.
“You know, when Holly was your age, she was a leader at Vacation Bible School. I was too; I was eleven. We led groups of kids all around Kirk of the Hills for the week.”
Linnea’s jaw dropped. “When she was nine?”
“Yup. They didn’t have enough leaders, so we had to help.”
What a week that had been, back in a day when Collette was painfully bashful and had a five-year “crush” (if you will), on Odysseus Sparrow, who was a freshman in high school and the second of nine children. He was also a leader at Vacation Bible School that week. But that was a story for another time.
Then they discussed their favorite Vacation Bible School games, including Steal the Bacon and Spud, two games of which Linnea had never heard. Collette recalled the thrilling ten-year-old triumph of having beat Mike French in Steal the Bacon during Vacation Bible School. Never before had she run so fast. He missed tagging her and ran directly into the gymnasium wall. Then there was the other day that same week where she had been smacked in the head with a ball during German dodgeball by a boy much bigger than herself and who had a striking pitch. Not only had she been terribly embarrassed, but her head throbbed as she made her way behind the lines again.
OLeif ran errands that night. Chief on his list was to shop for his belated Father’s Day present from Collette and Gus: a new camera, for which he had been pining for nearly a year.
OLeif’s hair had begun to reemerge somewhat, a dark prickly patch over his dome. Collette decided that (despite the fact that Yul Brynner was one of her favorite actors) and although the shaved head had been an interesting experiment, she still preferred it when her husband wore hair. And yet, if he felt the need to shave his head every six months in order to avoid receiving haircuts, she could live with that.