It's Getting Closer
“MmmEOW!”
Pumpkin’s protests are always fruitless. As the feline most recently dubbed “Fattest Cat in America,” there’s not much she can do to protect herself from tickling or other tortures. Irish and Puck took this opportunity to decorate her flat-on-her-back-flopped-out self with gadgets from the knick-knack drawer, a balancing act. Irish pulled out what resembled a length of antique chair fringe:
“Uh,” Carrie stopped her. “You know, that fringe is from the Spanish American War…”
Who knows. However, plastered in toy fire trucks and plastic harmonicas, Pumpkin finally had enough and waddled off the chair to retain her last shreds of dignity.
Francis walked through the front door. He had been promoted to Head Guard at the Rec-Plex. He also had a gift for Puck. Ceramics 101 had allowed Francis to express his artistic soul through the form of clay and glaze, leaving Puck with his very own chiminea stove. They experimented with the level of heat it could resist by lighting a fire inside it on the patio. It cracked. Not beyond repair, fortunately. Francis’ other accomplishment was a soup-bowl-sized mug which he had engraved with: “Francis’ Mug.”
Twenty-two tissue flower orb pew decorations hung from the rafters of Mom’s and Dad’s bed. Signs of Mom’s and Carrie’s crafting for the wedding. A large metal archway stood in the backyard; Carrie took a can of white spray paint to it. Wedding apparel arrived in the mail, dresses for Carrie (Montserrat-style: florals on black) and Rose (violet lace), while Irish made plans for prom on Thursday. Prom on a Thursday? And, yes, home schoolers have prom. Well, not back in my day they didn’t.
Puck was interested in discussing the look of the land one hundred years ago on our sunset highway drive back home. This quickly melted into another tirade against the local settlers:
“I mean, they just LITERALLY brushed them out of the land! Like brushing your teef! And they just LITERALLY killed almost all of them and didn’t even bury them! Even the feader (feather) chief! And almost all of them were gone! They are lucky some of them survived! THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO DO THAT! NO RIGHT I TELL YOU!”
This went on for some time…