Monday
Monday, May 9, 2011
In which research is conducted and a film is watched…
It was a usual sort of Monday.
Most of the morning was spent in extensive research and compiling information for Dad.
More registering of library programs for Linnea, including…
Bellydancing, an introductory class given by a Middle Eastern instructor.
Mystery/Theater Dinner, to take place in ‘jolly old England’ at ‘Radley Manor’.
And… Passport to Mexico, incorporating Dia de los Muertos sugar skull decorating, competitive games of Loteria, and fiesta snacks.
This was followed by reading about the Centennial Bulb that had been burning in Ohio’s Livermore Fire Station since June 18th, 1901. It had never gone out. It’s 110th birthday was soon approaching. They checked out its webcam as suggested. It was, indeed, still burning, at a cool 4 watts.
As the rain began to lightly fall in that cool green morning, they read further into matters of deep sea creatures. Puck was interested in the diagram of DNA presented in a sketch as a side note.
“What does that ladder do?” he wanted to know.
“It’s inside your body,” Collette explained. “Very tiny ladders that you can’t see that tell your body how to grow and work.”
“When I was very tiny in your tummy, I could climb up all those ladders very fast!” Puck announced, eyes wide.
As the afternoon came on…
Puck was very busy working the clip-on ties that Francis had passed onto him, relics of the 90’s.
The mail brought the printed genealogy, which, despite the poor generic cover, had turned out very well.
And the sun came out. Things got warm. Very warm, actually.
And as the ham went into the oven, Puck, who was perspired full over from the heat of the afternoon, adjusted his clip-on tie, in gray, against his bright orange t-shirt.
“I have my bow tie on so I look all nice and fancy for dinner,” he said.
OLeif arrived in good time for the meal.
And afterwards, while OLeif finished a last conference with his presentation partner for class, Puck enjoyed a milk and honey bubble bath before bedtime.
It was a honey-on-green sun that set that night, just as Joe and Rose were arriving for movie night. Collette’s choice, Maiden Heist, starring Christoper Walken. And snacks hand-selected by Joe: chocolate chip cookies, original Cheez-Its, pepper jack Cheez-its, grape juice, and grapefruit juice.
Meanwhile, Joe was down to his last days in St. Louis until August. He would be leaving early in the morning, Thursday, the 19th of May with his buddy, Tennessee.
“Guess what? I got a fever. And the only prescription is, more cowbell.”
— Christopher Walken