The Quiet Saturday
Saturday, March 26, 2011
In which the day is spent on snow and meat…
Eggs, bacon, music from Belarus.
Gray skies. 40’s.
At breakfast…
“Would you ever change your name?” Collette asked Puck.
“Yup.”
“What would it be?”
“Guh.”
Ocean breeze bubble bath for Puck.
Scuba diving rubber ducks.
OLeif slept in from the concert till after nine and then got down to organizing his week in the library. Puck followed in for the spoils. He returned with a lens cap in a ziplock bag.
“This is from Daddy,” he said. “It’s too small for his camera. Do you want to know what it says? Dear Mama. Blessing for Daddy. And love! Dear Daddy. And bless Puck!”
Into the morning…
Theodore and Gloria were in Nashville with Curly. And Izzy was out with buddies, helping at the St. Louis Home School Expo. So, per request, they arrived after noon for OLeif to cook meat for Izzy. And not to not partake themselves, in the bounty.
First…
Library.
McDonald’s, for Puck to exchange his coupon given to him at children’s choir for a free box of apple juice. And chicken nuggets.
It was an odd sort of conflagration: smoking grill, white apple blossoms, lightly falling snow, Orient Lifescapes… while Puck watched Up and OLeif flipped through Gloria’s Don A. Asbett catalog, tantalized with the selection of cleaning products before returning to the pork chops, which were equally tantalizing, accompanied by cans of cold fizzy Le Croix, lime.
The snow continued to softly fall, inch upon inch, a slow meander. It was beautiful, even with all of the white and pink blossoms laced in it.
A long traffic jam on the way back home.
Cashews and Gumby to keep Puck awake.
Mail…
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shiny dark sea blue credit cards to replace the old black ones
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a letter in a tiny pink envelope from Lulu Kennedy to Puck: a drawing of ‘a rocket’: his eyes lit up like torches.
Pepperidge Farm soft-baked chocolate chip cookies, all but one and a half for OLeif (as Collette had been given permission to have ‘a small something’ from time to time), and Colin Firth.
And in other news…
Janek Raven, old family friend down in Louisville, was engaged to be married.