Featuring Joe Caedmon Snicketts
Friday, May 6, 2011
In which Joe’s art is displayed at an exhibition amongst other works from around the country…
The morning began with…
Dad and Francis cutting down a dead tree in the front lawn…
Carrie dying Collette’s hair dark brown, mixed with subtle strips of blue and pink, which sounded far worse than it looked. The result was actually… nothing at all. She would have to try another method of coloring than… Kool-Aid…
And Linnea had spent the night at Eleda’s.
At ten o’clock, Mom left to be fitted for her summer dresses and then to spend the night at Grandma’s.
Puck carefully watched the glass tiers of his Sun’s chocolate cookies and cantaloupe muffins, tantalized. He was seen shortly later walking around the house with a muffin in one fist and a new blue punching balloon from his grandma in the other.
For the lunch hour, Puck helped Carrie make pigs-in-a-blanket.
And Earnest was more trouble than ever, having torn apart Carrie’s Arabic notebook, knocked the closet door off its hinge, and ripped into his bag of green hay, of which the ‘fuzzy pieces’ he enjoyed nibbling on the most, apparently.
Into the afternoon…
The UPS man delivered a Kelly green and black rabbit harness and leash, by an Italian designer, as Earnest’s first harness was too small. This one, however, appeared to be too big.
Collette checked to see if their ticket numbers had been drawn to visit the Antiques Roadshow in Oklahoma in July with the ‘possibly Confederate coin’. They were not…
Carrie-Bri turned on the Andy William’s CD imported from the UK, old tunes not heard since the good old days when Carrie and Joe would ride in the back of the 1980’s blue Toyota Camry with Dad, the car in which Collette had learned how to drive, and draw patterns on the velvety backs of the pilot seats.
Meanwhile, Joe was busy cutting up an ice cream Variety Pack box to affix to the front of the Fit with masking tape, which provided 3.9 mpg extra. After Wally had called him wanting to know the dress code for the evening at The Foundry…
Puck got his first shot at The Emperor’s New Groove.
The foreigners were busy scraping the black muck out of their pool.
Carrie groomed Joe’s eyebrows for the evening.
And Linnea returned from the English’s citing another E. coli outbreak worry after she and Eleda had once again tromped through the creek.
“But we sanitized all our cuts with hydrogen peroxide,” she said hopefully, and then promptly fell asleep on the couch.
Dinner. Little Caesar’s. The usual order from Dad to Francis…
“Two peps. Two cheese.”
And as they readied themselves to walk out the door, Joe being at dinner with Aristotle George, Collette noted that her hands and arms were still prominently dyed with Kool-Aid. No time to break out the baking soda, however. It was time to go.
Six o’clock was time for the opening of the art exhibition, Edge of Excess II, in which Joe had submitted three pieces, all of which had been accepted. This apparently ‘never happened’, according to his art teachers at Flo.
When they arrived at the spacious facility, the gallery off to the left was already being perused by OLeif, Theodore, Gloria, Grandpa and Grandma Hobcoggin, Bluebell, Wally and Lolly, Yaotl West, and Aristotle. Magnus arrived later. And, what Collette had anticipated was a local art show, turned out to be a nation-wide affair, and quite selective at that. Joe had made an impressive showing. And there were several visitors who made no hesitation in perusing the various pages of his sketchbook, after examining his stick-man canvas and endless-line canvas. It was all very impressive. The other piece of note, from Ohio, was a tower of bright yellow boxes, markedly Cheerios, splashing into a rippling ring of concentric circles in pink, red, and yellow bottle caps of various sizes onto the floor, entitled: ‘Beautiful Consumption’. Most of the work seemed to hail from California.
Out in the main hall was a reception of platters hosting primarily watermelon wedges, fixings for nachos, and cookies.
Joe had made his first statement in the world of art, and everyone seemed to be quite impressed.
And Grandma and Mom, who had already made their first visit to the Valley of Flowers, had made some purchases from Guatemala, including a beautiful brightly colored stitched bag for Collette in purples, greens, yellows, oranges, and pinks..
The evening ended later, as Williamwallace and Chet Danger were obliged to come in from the city to bring out OLeif’s twice-died motorcycle to ‘check out the electricals’, as OLeif put it.
Then they hung in the kitchen for awhile drinking ice water and talking about ‘sexy cowboys’. Collette could only presume that they had found her black and white photographs of Yul Brynner. And warning Collette not to wear her hair in a ponytail if she went motorcycling with OLeif because it would become an impossible tangle.
“Do you picture God as disappointed? Angry? Indifferent? Does his face say ‘Get your act together!’ or ‘If only you could do a little more for me!’ If you imagined God as anything but overjoyed with you, you have fallen into a performance mindset. Because the gospel truth is that in Christ, God is deeply satisfied with you.”
– The Gospel-Centered Life