One of Those Evenings...
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Monday evening, OLeif took Wallace, Curly, Starr, and Israel on a photo shoot up at the church property, near the silos and amongst the daisies. However, on the way to meet them (and Joe and Collette, where Joe dropped her off), OLeif managed to get himself in a bit of a hood-bender after he bumped their Honda underneath the rear of an SUV off Willott. Three cars were involved in the accident, and fortunately, no one was hurt. Although there was a nice cavity in the little green car’s hood, and, as Denae said, it rather looked as though someone had just sat on it, thus was the shape of the impression. And after a bit of an ugly run-in with an employee from the next-door nursery regarding property lines, there was dinner at the Silverspoon’s and some laughs. And Izzy once again laughed himself into tears over a particular story from Theodore, something over which they always managed to get a good kick.
Tuesday saw Francis sent to Junior Achievement with Mom and her cappuccino. He looked quite dashing in his black pants, white collared shirt, and tie with his briefcase and brown-bag lunch. As mayor of Enterprise Town for the day, he had quite the responsibility to perform. Later, Joe, Rose, and Collette came over to visit them at Junior Achievement in Chesterfield. There he was – the spiffy mayor himself at his desk preparing surveys, a census, a report at the news station, and various other interactions with the 114 kids involved in their own mini AG Edwards, hospital, Bank of America, WB 11 news station, warehouse, cell phone store, St. Louis Post Dispatch, etc. within the village, and a grand speech given by Francis at the end of the day. He made one smashing mayor.
Later, Mom explained that they all bought their lunch with Enterprise dollars at the Smokehouse restaurant.
“See, Collette. We could have bought lunch there,” Rose whined, who had been very hungry at the time.
“Only if you had Enterprise dollars,” Mom said.
“Well, I should have robbed the bank then,” Rose insisted.
Sometimes… well, Rose couldn’t let things go.
Later, while Carrie was at work and the kids at choir, Collette and Linnea juiced things until Collette felt rather sick from the overdose of carrots, apples, oranges, and grapes. And Mom returned later with Frances after having stopped by Ben & Jerry’s for “Free Ice Cream Day”.
“The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight,
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
She’d a list to the port and her sails in rags
And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags
“G~d ~~~~ them all!
I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold
We’d fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett’s Privateers.