On a Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Mrs. Lord-Welches and Pearl were coming into town for pageant dress shopping. In order to cut down on the level of involved activity, OLeif, Collette, and Puck opted to refrain from joining in the afternoon. Mom, Carrie, Linnea, and possibly Rose, would join the crew at Macy’s.
So following services, the little Silverspoon family instead joined the extended Silverspoon family for the afternoon. Izzy accompanied them for lunch before departing for a photo shoot in The Loop.
But first, Gloria cut her finger on the aluminum foil box, which required a second round of band-aids before the lunch hour had concluded.

As the afternoon arrived, there were chocolate bars in flat gold boxes from an insurance company. Theodore napped. OLeif worked on his sermon and sketched a dinosaur face on a piece of green foam that resembled a cartoon brontosaurus which ended up eating Puck’s goldfish crackers. Gloria read from the Norton’s Anthology of Literature, briefly falling asleep herself, before she started the coffee. A vase stuffed with red, purple, white, yellow, and pink Peruvian lilies sat on the counter. Puck lugged his red bike out onto the deck while OLeif brewed himself a glass of “sipping chocolate”. He was joined by his pipe and Theodore on the deck during which he folded a tiny pink plane for Puck from a post-it note. And Collette further researched a measure of the family lines. She was at least sixth generation St. Louis, possibly more. Then Puck lugged up the guitar case box, which he pretended was a tomb.
“Goodnight, Dracula,” Gloria said to him.
Puck just dimple-giggled.