Wednesday Dates
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
In which July is relentlessly August…
The heat was no better. 100 as a high for Wednesday, Thursday, (heat indices up to 115) and the following Tuesday. Nothing of much relief in between, either. For July, even in St. Louis, this was ridiculous.
Shortly before one o’clock, Joe arrived with a pack of yellow clay bars and car wax (in what looked like a Scottish shortbread tin) to wax and rub out the pine sap from Rose’s car, before her 4:30 appraisal at the dealership. The garage was the only place out of the sun where the revision could be performed.
Joe also encouraged Puck in the matters of lunch. Puck was not feeling the fish that afternoon.
“Fish is for bosses,” Joe explained. “Jumping around fighting the water in the tundra of Alaska. They’re just waiting for someone to come and eat them.”
The end-result of the car — silk.
The end-result of the fish — one hour and fifty-one minutes.
Puck was busy reading from his dad’s Bible that afternoon…
“Once God was baptized, He went out into the desert. And that was the oddest place of all. That is all for today… Chapter One. When Jesus was dead, then He came alive again, and saw Mary…”
He had also already drawn blue dry erase marker all over his limbs earlier in the day. The artist was emerging after all…
Arthur books.
Wrong number: Alabama.
In other news…
The Pies were in Michigan: picking raspberries and Sleeping Bear Dunes. Memories…
And Laurel Peach and family had been rear-ended by a semi in Nashville on the way home: rental Honda Odyssey, Laurel’s Lexus, and another car. No injuries…
OLeif sold off his old Mac to a Craigslister.
He returned after eight with eggs, peaches, plums, and a mega-feast of Reeses cups, Hershey’s, Stax potato chips, Little Debbie’s: strawberry shortcake rolls and cosmic brownies. Plus library rental: Megamind; hilarious. Some best date nights were on Wednesdays.
The night ended with a call from Joe, at the English’s, wanting the link to A Communist Christmas — the old Snicketts-English productions, staring: Carrie-Bri, Eve, Annamaria, Rose, Linnea, and Bing on sound.