Peach Picking

Friday morning, Puck felt it necessary to instruct his aunts on what the ‘bad bugs’ were doing outside.
“Bugs eat food and peanuts,” he said.

“Aah!” Rose cried from the bathroom.
“You ok, Onion?” Puck called, running in from the living room.
“The candle was smoking big,” Rose told him. “See the smoke, Puck?”
“I don’t think so,” he replied.

And while OLeif and Rose shipped off to work, Collette, Linnea, and Puck shipped off at 8:15 to pick up Mandarin. And out to the peach fields in more warm weather and blue skies.

The fruit trees were loaded with fuzzy rosy peaches, and they had little trouble loading up their two boxes.
Puck also helped by plucking a number of the juicy sweets off the branches.
Afterwards, they walked to the blackberry brambles, where most of the vines had been picked clean after only an hour and a half. But the girls were resourceful, as was Puck.
They managed to pick two boxes worth, shoving their way between the thorns. Linnea came away with several battle wounds on her brown arms. And Puck also helped.
“Have to pick the black ones,” he said.

After they had loaded up their spoils of the morning, they stopped by the fuel station for chocolate milk and mini chocolate donuts for the girls. And cashews for Puck.
Linnea then spent the rest of the afternoon at Mandarin’s house in Lake St. Louis.

For the rest of his afternoon, Puck drank sweet peach juice from the freshly juiced peaches, shuffled around the house in Rose’s silver shoes, and splashed in his make-shift pool on the front porch. Followed by another bubble bath.

That evening, Rose drove up with her brand new-smelling beautiful deep gray Honda Civic EX with charcoal interior. It was quite a piece of beauty.
She took OLeif for a drive to pick up Linnea from Mandarin’s, and then to probably see Magnus about the invalid squirrel that he had discovered.
Then OLeif returned for root beer on ice and a movie with Collette.

Meanwhile, OLeif had new books and was just about to head into his third semester at seminary. He hoped to complete his Masters of Educational Ministries in the next two and a half years.