Cool Runnings
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Saturday evening there was blueberry ice cream for Collette and chocolate peanut butter for OLeif before he split for the lake and Collette settled down on the couch to watch on old black and white flick about a snake hunter and a card sharp bamboozler in South America.
Sunday saw Scott Hamilton Pie in the pulpit (even referencing the grand old cannibal-loving John Paton) and a lively old spiritual complete with Ben-Hur on tambourine – “Sweet Victory in Jesus” – followed by fried chicken, potato salad, and chocolate cake at Nicodemus’ and Ivy’s house (Feline Paradise) for three hours and talk on the Pentecostal churches and movements, etc.
There had also been rumors of plates flying at the Columns… but Collette hadn’t heard any full reports on the matter.
In world news, (apparently), NASA had lost the original tapes of the first lunar landing and Finland’s female president, Tarja Hallonen, had an 80% approval rating in her country, recently being elected into her second 6-year term in office.
Linnea was excited that day. She came running up to Collette at church, enthusiastically:
“Collette, Collette! We just bought five more Nancy Drew computer games for $19.99! You have to come play them with me today!”
The blissful afternoons of an eight year-old.
And Molly had come to the point where she could part her hair with bobby pins, as she pointed out at church.
Rose had passed her exam from Thursday, adding to her growing total of college credits. Collette wondered how receptive Rose would be to digging back into the natural sciences on Monday in preparation for her September exam, particularly as her college classes began that week. One could never tell the attitude of a student, particularly a sibling student, from day to day. Such was the unpredictable life of a tutor.
Come evening, Mom and Dad were off to take Frances and Linnea to a rock climbing wall at the junior high school up the road and to rent what was sure to be one of Dad’s embarrassing new favorites, the new SpongeBob movie:
“SpongeBob goes to Karate Island”,
Or something like that, as Mom said. SpongeBob just tickled Dad for some reason – rounds of near-uncontrollable laughter.
And it was off to another lively youth circle for OLeif and Collette where pizza was just being served. There the subject of the next mission trip was broached again. Jimmy at one point suggested an Indian reservation out west.
“I’m part Cherokee,” Augustus exclaimed. “I would fit right in.”
“Yes, yes!” Magnus sat up from his chair. “’Hello, good people! I am one of your kind!’ Dude, my brother went to one of those places one time, and all these kids were climbing all over him. And he got stabbed in the leg by these incredibly sharp arrows!”
“See my Cherokee habits!” Augustus yelled, picked up a giant black bucket and began pounding it war-drum like.
Later, OLeif duct-taped the bucket to Augustus’ back, after he claimed that he looked like a turtle.
After dollar ice creams for everyone at McDonald’s, they dropped off Samantha and Molly as they discussed the possibility of mood rings for engagement rings.