The Goings-On of Saturday
Saturday, April 9, 2011
In which there is a wave of undesired heat in the very early part of the spring…
Thunderstorms rolled in at four o’clock. After one particularly amazing crash, Puck was finally woken by it just before six.
The day commenced with a short breakfast and out to the house by 8:35, just in time to prepare eggs for all those who would, where…
Carrie was justly tired.
Joe was to take Puck on a hike along the Katy Trail.
Rose was just arriving to help out with the morning.
Francis was working on projects for two hours already.
And Collette was to take Linnea-Irish first to glaze her rose at Crossroads Pottery and then to her choir competition at the community college.
While there, Linnea quickly ran out of time to finish the rose. She shyly asked Mr. Adams to finish it for her.
“Sure… You wanted it glazed black, right?” he teased.
When Collette returned, Grandma Combs had arrived to help cheer up the old Troops. The effect seemed to be good. And Grandma had brought with her a small house with little people and furniture for Puck, and soft chocolate frosted cookies, dark chocolate eggs, and Easter M&M’s, none of which Collette could have for the present, of course.
Grandma had also written down some of her family history on a sheet of note paper, which Collette reserved for later research… including the notation that, as a child, when Grandma Combs lived in the city above a confectionary, that she was told, upon occasion, to bring butter back to her mother, and that she would have eaten out the middle of it like a corn-on-the-cob by the time she had returned.
No sooner had this been done, while Carrie prepared batter for blueberry pancakes and then crispy bacon for lunch, that Collette returned to pick up Linnea from the college and then, upon sudden inspiration, to the Home Depot parking lot for free Chick-fil-A sandwiches that were being handed out for three hours in promotion of the new restaurant opening in five days. And then to Walgreen’s for a loaf of sandwich bread and a 99-cent Chinese back scratcher for Linnea.
Back at the house, further endeavors were afoot.
Grandma Combs watched Puck do his sword dance, which was more a matter of him running in circles around the swords after he had crossed them, or stomping on them in full force, which sent Grandma into an uproar of laughter.
Not long later… back home for Puck’s extended bath, supper, and catechism, followed by Collette’s nightly writings while listening to the audiobook version of Jane Eyre.
“I live in calm, looking to the end.”
– Jane Eyre, Chapter 6