September 22

Collette and Puck were over at the house again to get in an extra day of tutoring with the kids, as Mom, Dad, Francis, and Linnea were leaving for Atlanta on Friday morning.

Collette, Carrie-Bri, and Linnea dropped off Francis at choir before running some necessary errands of the day: pick up a medical letter for Puck for the adoption file, Pier 1 to purchase two champagne glasses for the cousins, Barnes & Noble for Carrie to meet Grewe for awhile (always a dangerous place for any Snicketts girl to enter: too many alluring books, journals, etc.), drop off Linnea, grocery store to finish putting together a basket for the birthday party that weekend which included Ghirardelli chocolate squares filled with caramel and raspberry…
Back at home where Mom was fixing a pan of caramel apples, Carrie was working on convincing Collette to name the baby ‘Galileo’ (which was Hebrew for ‘from Galilee’) when he arrived from Colombia while she mixed up a pot of apple cider with various spices, Joe had attached his old camera to a trash bag and was launching it with video recording from the roof… Puck watched this in awe, walking around in Joe’s ‘flip-pops’ (flip-flops), Carrie was making arrangements to get Grandma Snicketts to the dentist on Thursday to see about a broken tooth…
And OLeif, unfortunately, had lost his bid on securing an old piano.

Puck, on the ride home, was asking for, ‘Band-day? Band-day, Mama?’ (band-aid) because he thought he had hurt his foot, but had not, really.

Back home, Rose arrived to continue painting the basement and OLeif left for class.
So while North by Northwest played on the television, Rose attacked the basement stairs with a can of robin’s egg blue paint.

On Collette’s jog that evening, the sky was a sea of violet. Glowing brushed orange cotton.