04 OCT 25
“And remember Yali... you need to get your fishing equipment prepared for your Scout outing Tuesday evening...” // **dramatically throws his head backwards** “Oh gosh...” // “What... is your social life just too demanding for you?” // **grins** “No...” // “What are your plans for today anyway?” // **bigger grin** “SCIENCE!”
While I leave Yali to sort out this science business for the morning... Oxbear is returning from an early business meeting while I bus Patience to the studio for two hours...
Back home Yali is in church clothes and a maroon bow tie dumping Boo buckets of cold water over his head on the trampoline...
Inside... between dive bombings of copious flies and occasionally stink bugs from Puck's room... now it's hundreds of ants... invasion in the living room for some reason we can't entirely tell...
As Yali runs back inside with a large empty water cooler jug which I didn't even know we had...
...hit the housework... there was an attempt to assist Mama the previous evening by loading the dishwasher... the loading symmetry is entirely off and there's inexplicably a large crystal candle goblet in there but... it's the thought of course...
Yali runs by again to dig a fresh skein of violet yarn from my basement desk...
Oxbear is busy soldering something into the water cooler jug... which ends up becoming a giant “Thor's hammer” with hefty honeysuckle walking stick handle...
Puck walks out to observe the fully completed product... smiles with mischief at Yali... “You should fill that thing with sand”...
Meanwhile Patience has been grabbed from dance for a little train ride through the woods with cousins before joining Oxbear and Yali later in the afternoon for a couple hours at the arcade in Chesterfield...
Patience later submits all her arcade tickets for a boxed glitter lamp like a lava lamp but no lava... back home Yali is busy trying to convince her that the contents are an energy drink... “You should open it and drink that Patience...” he coaxes her evilly...
A few minutes later he's running around the yard in an elvish cape... dish glove on one hand ski glove on the other... waving the enormous water cooler Thor's hammer through the air... “AVENGE THE NORTHEAST!! AAAAAAAAAGH!!”