Pirate Photo Shoots & Budget Horror Films
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Collette and Puck hit the road that day for another algebra session with Frances.
Puck was greeted with another photo shoot, this time with Carrie in the late summer grass of the old volleyball field on the side of the house. He received several more squeezes from almost everyone as a reward for his extra cuteness that day, bundled in his jacket which read: “MVB – Most Valuable Bear”.
Earlier that week he had been on another photo shoot with Rose, who donned him in skull and crossbones bandanna and pirate hat, also salvaged from work. After sailing the high seas for that morning, and singing several rounds of “Yo ho, yo ho”, Puck was shuttled from station to station, looking for more brightly-colored objects on which to munch and more giggles to giggle.
Carrie had also returned from work with a roll of political campaign stickers laid out in red, white, and blue. Her creative juices were running and she was bored, which meant that the stickers had to be used for something unusual. Soon, her metal piano stool was decorated in cut up bits of stickers, scissored into the British flag.
Meanwhile, Wednesday morning, Curly dropped by the house to bring Joe’s belated arrival birthday gift: Ferrari body kit. Joe’s eyes grew wide with delight as he carefully opened the case. He tried to peel the wrapping off the deodorant spray.
“Here, let me get it. I have nails,” said Curly.
“Your fingernails are longer than mine,” Rose gawked.
“Yeah, but I play better guitar than you.”
“Yeah right! I play a mean triangle.”
Joe was handling his four-piece body kit like they were four large precious rubies.
“I’m never going to use these,” he said.
“I’m going to buy a steel drum,” said Rose.
Her thoughts were still on musical instruments.
While working on his algebra lesson, Frances was distracted by an article in Popular Science which taught him how to make himself feel like he was having an “out of body” experience which required two mirrors. Apparently the trick failed, however, as Collette later heard him giggling loudly from the bathroom while he attempted to trick his mind.
That afternoon, Carrie brought out her latest purchase to show Collette – “The Carnival of Souls” on DVD in an all-new colorized version – just about the worst horror film of all-time, which made it all the more interesting. Although Collette had to admit, that maybe the 1966 “Manos: The Hand of Fate” was even worse than “The Carnival of Souls”.
For lunch, there were steak sandwiches and large glass jars of chocolate milk for Frances and Linnea.
The rest of the afternoon was spent around a very slap-happy Puck who was so tired and laughing so hysterically, that he didn’t even know at what he was laughing. He went from laughing his ears off at Frances whooshing the giant helium pirate balloon past his face, to giggling even harder at Carrie who was doing nothing more than standing in the doorway. It was too much for the Puckling to handle, and he passed out into deep slumber on the car ride home.
That night, Rose came over to learn Photoshop from OLeif. She later joined Collette over some television and a pair of fuzzy red socks to guard against the chilly evening.
“Ha ha, did you hear that?” She laughed at the television. “The news guy just said, ‘And tonight, on CW11, we will remember a very big ape.’”
“IM is like a chocolate cake; when you’ve had your fill, you still keep eating, resulting in a bad stomachache.”
– Joe Caedmon Snicketts