glorious known triads

May 18, 2008 | Filed Under ordinary 

ernie finally finished laying the floor in his studio. the boys were busy all day yesterday, helping out with all manner of woody floor laying. last week, during a totally unrelated and quite impromptu hammering project, jude had his thumb smashed with the claw end of a hammer (!) and still he wants to fool around with all manner of blade and tool.

i’m relatively camera-less the last couple of weeks so i’m scrounging up pictures that have nothing to do with anything i’m writing about. if i had a camera on hand i would be posting pictures of baked beans. instead, lola, who is prettier than any baked bean, and quite a bit more delicious.

my brother and his wife and their lovelies are in town for two, three tiny days. i’ve not seen them for two and a half years, which is quite wrong and should not be so. last night i was up late making sinful baked beans that use a frightening amount of bacon and brown sugar. i say that i baked them for clayton and stacie but they really are my favorite thing to eat, except for maybe chocolate something or other. we spent the afternoon with lots of family around, eight children and two more coming along, my brothers and i all adult now, fat in the face, old and parental. we ate the baked beans, anyway, and too much of everything else. our kids, all muscle and stretched long, thin, ran around like we used to run, fast and tireless. it wasn’t that long ago, even though it seems like a dream.

it rained today, puddles on the plates that were left in a hurry as we ran into the house. “it sounds like popcorn out there,” samuel said, his ear at the door. everything green and growing, the leaves on the trees drooping, soggy, holding gallons divided, water in droplets cold, sweet.

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