Father's Day

It was OLeif’s second Father’s Day, and Dad’s 23rd. There wasn’t much time to celebrate, however. Dad and Mom had to leave by noon in order to tack on the extra three hours needed to skirt the flood up north.
Joe picked up a DQ cake which read: “Happy Father’s Day”, embellished with a picture of a golf club and ball, which was somewhat comical, because Collette wasn’t sure if Dad had ever played golf in his life.
The usual merriment commenced after church. Dad ordered six boxes of pizzas from Cecil Whittaker’s. After a chorus of “Happy, Happy Father’s Day”, Carrie brought in the oversized musical card which began to bellow the Star Wars theme song when Dad opened the cover. The outside read:

“A long, long, long time ago…”

And on the inside:

“You were born.”

Then Carrie had added:

“Then you got married,
Then had six kids,
And are now the Big Bad Dad.”

Dad’s gifts had not yet arrived: the series of “The Roads”, starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
Then it was time for Mom and Dad to leave.
“So what are you going to be doing up there while Dad works?” Collette asked Mom.
“Oh, doing some reading, writing up Frances’ and Linnea’s school plan…”
Frances shook his head in disapproval.
“What hotel are you going to be staying at, Mom?” he asked.
“Wyatt Inn.”
“Good. I’m going to send an EMP over there, so you can’t type anything at all.”
“Frances,” said Carrie. “You forget something. Mom would never use the computer anyway.”
“Rats.”
Soon, they were ready. Dad escorted Mom out the front door as Mom was saying:
“Try to keep the house clean!…”
As soon as Mom was out the door, Carrie took over in a loud voice:
“Okay, I’m in charge now!”
She took a swipe at Rose’s bum, which was followed by Linnea. Rose swung at both, and missed.
“I’m going to have to wear a pillow on my rear end all week,” she muttered to herself, as she turned on Charlie Chaplin music on her laptop.
While the girls watched Midsomer Murders, Puck napped, OLeif worked on his laptop, Joe left for the baseball game with Luke Annie, Rose planned a trip to Shakespeare that evening, and storms rose in the west.
After a session of frisbee while Carrie helped Puck play in the hose, it was time to call it a day.
Back at the house, Puck munched on the first course of his dinner: peas. Some of these went rolling off his baby pajamas onto the floor.
“I’d say he lost about seventeen peas in action,” Collette informed OLeif.
“Oh no!” OLeif said in a tiny voice. “Seventeen peas down!”