Razzing Francis
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
In which fish are saved and Rose returns to the hunt…
Shortly after breakfast…
“Mama?”
“Yes, Puck.”
“I just ate a Popsicle on ax-dent.”
“Why did you do that, Puck?”
“To keep the fridge from creaking like dat.”
What followed was an explanation of the exact definition of ‘accident’.
Not long later, after OLeif read a new library book to him about monkey sailors, Puck donned his batter’s helmet and got into his car seat.
Activity levels were at their usual ‘moderate’ over at the house…
Brown sugar cookies under glass.
Dad and Francis were busy snapping rubber bands at each other.
They had some fun teasing Francis about being Dad’s twin…
“After I cut his hair and charged him five dollars,” said Carrie, “he said, ‘well, I may not have to pay you to cut my hair much longer if I go bald’. And then I caught him looking in the mirror pushing back his hair to see what he’d look like without it.”
Dad got a good laugh out of that one too.
Joe returned from work to dig at the window wells again.
Carrie was scheduled to see a color specialist for her hair.
And Mom was busy in Old St. Charles with Mrs. English and Mrs. Blots, who was visiting to see the fall color with Mr. Blots and the younger kids. Mom returned with chocolate-peanut-butter-swirl fudge from Riverside Sweets.
Out to the super-store that shall remain nameless…
When they got to the pet section and the shelves of Betas in containers, filled with an inch or so of water apiece… two were already dead… Carrie got just a little mad. She pulled a bottle of special fish-appropriate water off the shelf, and began to disperse it amongst the dying creatures.
“Despicable,” was her final pronouncement.
Upon return, she got busy concocting spicy chili and corn muffins from scratch.
And Earnest cuddled in the dryer in a bundle of freshly-dried clothes.
Some more of giving Francis a hard time…
“So, have you fallen asleep life-guarding yet?”
“Nope.”
“Just make sure you’re never scheduled to work on a Sunday afternoon during your nap time, and you’ll be find.”
“Ha. Ha.”
“Make sure you don’t eat a meal before you work, or you’ll get drowsy.”
“Or that you don’t have anything to eat. That makes you sleepy too.”
“And definitely don’t have a cat with you. That would make you fall asleep right away.”
Francis just grinned.
As usual.
“Mama!” Puck cried from the living room around Johnny Quest, “I just ate the paper on my muffin on ax-dent!!”
Children’s Choir was wild.
And sad news came shortly after seven. Steve Jobs had passed away.
Good news came not long after 7:30. The Cards had won another game. Now on to October 7th…
And word from Rose that, due to an unexpected change in circumstances, the new roommate had to remain at her current apartment. So Rose was back on the search…