Upsets
Saturday, July 23, 2011
In which some troubles brew, but do not end altogether badly…
A day at home.
Puck came in early for a jump-about.
“It’s a circus,” OLeif mumbled after awhile.
A couple of games of shrieking-laughter tag before breakfast…
OLeif doctored up Puck’s oatmeal with vanilla and red and blue food coloring.
Puck could be seen shortly later walking around with blue robot underwear on his head, giggling. Collette caught him trying to fill his little glass jar with water not long after that…
“Please? I want to have a little aquarium in it.”
And OLeif started to read his 160 pages of assignment for the day with a cup of Irish breakfast tea.
Magic School Bus about the stars for Puck. Two boy legs covered in bruises, scabs, and pen marks doing headstands on the couch…
It was the sort of day Collette thought about visiting Iceland again…
Meanwhile, word came in that…
Dad was called on the way to his softball game — Grandpa was back in the hospital with another round of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. So Dad went to the hospital in the afternoon instead. Reports were better in the mid-afternoon. Grandpa was more alert and doing much better.
Linnea had experienced her own mini emergency in the night, awake from one o’clock to three o’clock: trouble breathing, whole-body rash, etc. Apparently the allergic reaction to the Pepto-Bismol had been rather severe. Not to mention the buttered popcorn, soda, cake, and ice cream of the night before…
But things seemed once again back in order.
And there was some discussion of Communications degrees, radio, and cycling scholarships with Joe…
Library: Doctor Who comic book.
At the Silverspoon’s…
The boys left with Theodore for the movies: Captain America.
Puck was drinking black cherry juice and had just been gifted a fat book of brightly colored photograph-stickers. He inspected the office where Gloria was looking over some requests for donations or something of similar effect…
“I don’t want to give them money,” Gloria said aloud.
“Well,” Puck had replied, “I’ll keep it for you instead.”
Off to Target: melamine plates in bright colors, bedding for Izzy in the dorm (including white sheets so that he would be forced to do laundry more often, said Gloria), Legos for Michael’s late birthday, and split a Kit-Kat. Puck’s choice for 79 cents. They also saw Jims Mormon briefly on the way out…
Home Depot: new Art Deco air vent.
Drop-off some papers at the Ernie’s house.
Back for beef fajitas before Theodore and Gloria left for a 60th birthday party.
Dark green hedge-and-grove of the early night. Cicada-firefly.
And there was hope of storms again.
Finally.