Memorial Day

Monday, May 31, 2010

Holiday.

Over at the Silverspoon’s, Kitts had arrived for the day shortly after OLeif, Collette, and Puck.

“Want to help me make lemon squares, Puck?” she asked him.

“Yes,” said Puck, with a determined face. “’Scuse me, Nana. We’re gonna make food.”

So for the next half hour or so, he helped with the sugar, sliced up butter, cracked eggs, cleaned up a bit, etc.

“Put more butter in there, Puck,” Kitts instructed him. “Butter’s awesome!”

“Our family,” Izzy said, shaking his head and laughing.

Then Puck involved himself looking at the new bright blue barbecue grill on the deck, which his nana told him was ‘the big blue egg’. The term stuck.

For lunch, the Silverspoon kids took off for the Greek festival.

Sometime in the afternoon, around Bananagrams, ice cream, Little Bear, etc., Collette and Puck took some time outside to sit on the driveway together and watch the storm roll in. A small lightening display and rolling thunder somewhere in the west. Then the rain came. Light, but cool. It was good to hear thunder again.

Around three-thirty, Kitts took the lemon squares to meet Relevance at Old Blue’s and Cashmere’s barbecue.

And at four, Curly was on his way back to Nashville on a route which shortly led him into a great rainstorm.

More Bananagrams, and then Collette and Puck took off for home while OLeif joined Theodore, Gloria, and Izzy at the movies for Ironman II.

Not long later into the evening, the family dropped off Linnea to spend the night. The Silverspoon’s dropped off OLeif, and Theodore and Izzy helped load up an old chopped-up basketball post into the dump truck at the neighbor’s house. And then there were chocolate cookies and Bananagrams with Scrabble tiles, which Linnea played for the first time and greatly enjoyed.

And Classical radio played on into the night.