September 22
First day of fall.
The rain was spritzing.
Joe was attending to his morning coffee after having doodled a mustached man in purple dry erase marker on the kitchen window. (He had also been rear-ended by a teenage girl pulling out of the choir church the previous afternoon…)
Carrie had been busy researching further into the matter as to whether Paul and Seneca had been friends back in the day…
Francis was playing Cowboys and Indians with Puck.
And Linnea was attempting to rescue her withering pineapple plant in the hallway…
“Uh oh,” she said. “Dominic isn’t doing so well…”
Later, Francis was begging grilled sandwiches for lunch, at the hands of Collette… one item she had never left too long on the stove. It was just far too easy to become distracted with books and papers…
And the candy corn had come out again.
While Collette worked with Linnea-Irish on her math, who was also busy eating caramel, Collette French-braided Linnea’s hair in a snaking ring around her head and into the center of it.
When Linnea looked in the mirror to see the finished product, she grinned, looking at her silver lightening bolt earrings.
“I kind of look like Zeus’s wife,” she said.
At 2:45, Carrie-Bri left to pick up her friend from the airport, after which she would drive him out to Augusta for dinner at The Ashley Rose, inside which a small airplane was housed. There were plans for a bonfire and s’mores — a cultural experience — if the weather was fine.
2:55 — the Atletico Madrid-Valencia match. A goal for Atletico in the first half. For Forlán: four matches, three goals. De Gea seemed to be the star of the game. Great keeper. The game ended in a draw.
Meanwhile, Francis and Creole, who were finished working for the afternoon, were busy tossing an inside-out umbrella back and forth in the street.
After a quiet evening at church, the harvest moon rose in the violet expanse. Collette watched it through the dark windows of the sanctuary. There was something ancient and far away about that particular sky…
Mom and Francis showed up at 7:30 to pick them up, and Linnea and Mandarin. In the mini van, Rose had sent over a treat for Puck: a collection of heavy-duty hand-sized animals: a brown bear, black cow, white and gray ox, sapphire parrot, and a knight’s horse. Also, a package of scratch-and-sniff stickers. Puck was very happy.
In other news, Rose was researching the purchase of a rescued Egyptian cat.
And Dad had returned Grandma from the hospital.
Over at the house…
The rain was spritzing.
Joe was attending to his morning coffee after having doodled a mustached man in purple dry erase marker on the kitchen window. (He had also been rear-ended by a teenage girl pulling out of the choir church the previous afternoon…)
Carrie had been busy researching further into the matter as to whether Paul and Seneca had been friends back in the day…
Francis was playing Cowboys and Indians with Puck.
And Linnea was attempting to rescue her withering pineapple plant in the hallway…
“Uh oh,” she said. “Dominic isn’t doing so well…”
Later, Francis was begging grilled sandwiches for lunch, at the hands of Collette… one item she had never left too long on the stove. It was just far too easy to become distracted with books and papers…
And the candy corn had come out again.
While Collette worked with Linnea-Irish on her math, who was also busy eating caramel, Collette French-braided Linnea’s hair in a snaking ring around her head and into the center of it.
When Linnea looked in the mirror to see the finished product, she grinned, looking at her silver lightening bolt earrings.
“I kind of look like Zeus’s wife,” she said.
At 2:45, Carrie-Bri left to pick up her friend from the airport, after which she would drive him out to Augusta for dinner at The Ashley Rose, inside which a small airplane was housed. There were plans for a bonfire and s’mores — a cultural experience — if the weather was fine.
2:55 — the Atletico Madrid-Valencia match. A goal for Atletico in the first half. For Forlán: four matches, three goals. De Gea seemed to be the star of the game. Great keeper. The game ended in a draw.
Meanwhile, Francis and Creole, who were finished working for the afternoon, were busy tossing an inside-out umbrella back and forth in the street.
After a quiet evening at church, the harvest moon rose in the violet expanse. Collette watched it through the dark windows of the sanctuary. There was something ancient and far away about that particular sky…
Mom and Francis showed up at 7:30 to pick them up, and Linnea and Mandarin. In the mini van, Rose had sent over a treat for Puck: a collection of heavy-duty hand-sized animals: a brown bear, black cow, white and gray ox, sapphire parrot, and a knight’s horse. Also, a package of scratch-and-sniff stickers. Puck was very happy.
In other news, Rose was researching the purchase of a rescued Egyptian cat.
And Dad had returned Grandma from the hospital.