French Fries & Parabolas
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
In which ideas are reviewed, life is caught up, and the usual activities of Wednesday are executed…
To begin the morning, Puck wanted to know if they were going to church for kids choir, or to sing as they did so on Sunday mornings in the ‘Aquarium’ (auditorium).
Back on the ranch…
Francis had accomplished his first evening of work at the YMCA on Monday, which included the ridicule of a ‘grumpy old man’ who was anxious to have a go at the water slide.
Mom and Carrie got busy constructing wreaths of glow-in-the-dark eyeballs and black feathers for the front door. Puck helped by tossing the highly bounce-able eyeballs around the house. Francis also joined two hands in this endeavor.
Earnest was busy munching a catalog that Francis had already shredded with his BB gun.
And the neighbors across the street were moving back to Ohio, which got Collette thinking that it would be sort of cool if the Incredibles moved in next door…
I-800A Supplements typed and printed around the endless algebra, geometry, and basic trig.
In the middle-morning, Dad brought another small sheaf of business proposal papers from his basement office for Mom, Collette, and Carrie-Bri to review. Revolutionary ideas. Sounds presentations.
And Puck had lately been interested in taking a crack at honeycomb and cucumbers again.
As the lunch hour drew in, Carrie cut up the salads and set a tray of seasoned fries in the oven as nearly everyone, including Dad, watched The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Shelley Duvall — always a good laugh.
And once the film had been concluded, Dad and Puck left to visit Grandma Snicketts while Carrie and Collette caught some sun and discussed present circumstances and Yemenis customs, including the women scenting their clothes in the smoke of roses and cedar chips, wearing basil earrings, and flowering palm oil in their hair. Also a notation of Wash-U being the second-best medical school in the country, second only to Harvard, and of Carrie’s pal at church taking two-hour lunches so that he could go rock-climbing.
The Valley called next for groceries, including Greek yogurt with black cherry or pineapple, ingredients for lasagna, and more autumn peanut-candy-corn mixes…
“Are these the Brach’s brand?” Dad asked later. “Just checking, because the off-brands are just terrible.”
Typical Snicketts.
Dinner was a quick succession of loaded-down styrofoam plates as Joe was about to leave for Old St. Charles: Matthias’ Lot with Yaotl West, Francis to work, Rose not yet returned from Tapestry after picking up Collette’s home study, Mom and Carrie to hit up some shops, and…
As Collette, Linnea-Irish, and Puck departed for church, Dad and Joe were busy flinging a ping-pong ball back and forth at each other in the front lawn.
Church itself involved the crazy-loudness of eleven kids five and under, Puck blasting out his tuneless Christmas selections (already), Noah flannel-graphs, pudding cups popping with whipped cream and candy sprinkles, and M’nM Bingo.