The Final Hurrah
Saturday, March 5, 2011
In which Linnea plays her last basketball game…
Early risers.
6:30.
Bacon and eggs.
Out by 7:30.
Drop off OLeif with his guys’ church group at the St. Charles Coffee House at 8:00.
Bank.
Target, where Puck had a fifteen dollar gift card to spend. He chose a ten-pack of Matchbox cars, a box of Chickadees (Market Pantry’s version of Goldfish), and a can of cashews (mostly for Collette, who felt a drop in protein).
Library to drop off a small stack and to wash hands.
Back to pick up OLeif at 9:30 under rain-waiting skies and zippy biting winds.
And to the Silverspoon’s, where more bacon was at the ready.
Izzy was leaving for another shift at The Columns, but not before a quick tickle-fest with Puck, which sent him off giggling. The session ended with Puck bundled like a giant potato on the leather couch. Or a cannoli, as Gloria suggested.
“But more squishy,” she said.
Linnea had her very last game of the season, and possibly, unfortunately, her career, at noon. Same place. To be followed by a team party for the afternoon and evening at her coach’s, Susannah’s father’s, house.
Grandma, Mom, Collette, Puck, Joe, and Francis were in attendance for the final hurrah. And it was a good game.
Another win.
The girls had made a wonderful season. A couple of hard falls for Susannah, who had made up the bulk of the points of the game, just for fun. And they wrapped it up with choosing their own stars of color while eating cuties and bananas. Puck was also given a banana by the girl with the strawberry blonde hair. Not to mention the animal crackers, cheese crackers, and quarters that Grandma Combs had already given him.
And off into the sunset… unless Linnea made the Patriots team, to continue in high school…
Meanwhile…
After five days of nothing but protein, cheese, and fruit, Collette was already tired of the diet. She discovered that her original idea of not very much liking meat had not been unfounded.
But in more interesting matters…
Gloria and Puck made a brightly colored clay worm to stick out of the small hole in the wall in the living room.
OLeif worked on Christ OPC’s website.
And home for an Italian-language film: Bread and Tulips.