Gone?

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Thursday morning started with a jolt. It was set to be a terrible day in St. Louis. Classic 99 was over. Dead. Gone. Static. Nothing. There seemed little hope that arts could last in the city after such a blow…

But then, come evening… it was back again. Mysteriously. Perhaps the death blow had not yet arrived. But Collette had heard rumors that it would officially be gone by June 1^st.

Meanwhile…

1. Carrie had been busy writing a paper on the history of the Crab Nebulae.

2. Mom, Francis, and Puck spent a good part of the morning preparing the barn for another movie night while Collette tutored Linnea and wrote more books.

3. Mom and Carrie worked on discovering a solution to the dying butter-yellow roses in the front of the house.

4. Collette and Linnea-Irish took Puck on an afternoon walk, as Mom and Carrie-Bri returned from Whole Foods with penne, tomato sauce, and challah rolls for dinner through which Linnea and Puck watched I Love Lucy, because…

5. At six o’clock, OLeif and Collette participated in a mutual phone interview in the basement given by a psychologist in California to complete yet another requirement for the Colombia dossier.

Before they left, Mom, who had just returned from bringing Francis to Scouts, told them a funny anecdote from earlier in the morning.

“We were driving down the road and the wind was blowing in Puck’s face, so he said, ‘That wind is all mine! I made it!’”

The little goofball.

As they drove away for the evening for the gas station, cold pomegranate blackberry tea, and peanuts for Puck, Linnea was busy shooing the neighbor’s chickens back into their own yard.

That night OLeif and Collette caught up on work and papers while watching the inevitable continuation of Ballykissangel.