The Ridiculous-ness
Sunday, February 25, 2007
It was an all-dayer for the youth and leaders at church. OLeif would likely be there from eight in the morning until eight at night, or later. Collette would attend the dinner and talent show later in the evening. She wondered if Joe had successfully removed his name from the list of talent show participants for the evening. Rose had originally signed him up for a belly-dancing routine, for which he had no time to prepare.
The day was full of wind and Collette was nearly blown across the sidewalk after church.
For the afternoon, she headed back with Dad, Mom, and Linnea where Mom fixed potato casserole and three dishes of macaroni and cheese for the dinner that night.
Meanwhile, Loraine Saint had been taken to the hospital that morning due to dehydration and the flu. So until Jimmy could rejoin the youth, OLeif and Scott Pie stayed to supervise the mess of junior and senior high students. Rose and Francis helped the rest of the kids set up the sanctuary with dinner tables. And Joe took off for lunch with Wallace. Carrie was at Columns again, saving dollar by dollar to pay for the years’ events.
Five o’clock soon rolled around, and they headed back up to the church where all the students were dressed in black and white to be servers for the dinner. With all of them dressed in pretty much the same uniform, there suddenly seemed to be much more of them than she had originally thought.
Grandma Combs had also come for the event. And Carrie also showed up, walking in after just having come from work, tired and still in work uniform and a black jacket.
Grandma was telling them about her experience at pottery lessons, and how much she loved them, despite the fact that she had lost her temper a week or so before during her Thursday night class.
“It was such a beautiful pot,” she was telling Collette and Carrie. “It was going so nicely. And then I put my thumb there on the side, and it went right through.” Grandma paused, still frustrated with the recollection. “I was so mad, I smashed it!”
But despite Grandma’s outburst towards the ruined piece of pottery, she did apologize to her instructors (Mr. and Mrs. Adams, from Grace) for her temper, and eventually made another piece on which she was currently waiting to get out of the kiln at her next class. And then she was to have the fun of glazing it.
Soon, the dinner began, which was mostly ham. This was followed with iced cakes with rosebuds on top each slice. And the festivities soon began – a talent show of mostly acts which would not be considered “talent” – but that was usually the result of amateur thrown-together talent shows. And despite everything, they did bring some good laughs.
The run-down included a brief skit where Judah and OLeif transformed themselves into midgets and managed to be slathered in shaving cream and bananas before the evening had ended. Dad was laughing so hard during the particular act, that the tears started coming. He and Joe – it always happened that way when they laughed too hard.
“Joe should have done his belly-dancing,” Carrie whispered to Collette during the show.
Collette had to admit, it would have been hilarious.
And after the silent auction had ended, the Snicketts family came away with one item – several hours of volunteer work from Rose to do yard work. She was, of course, thrilled.