07 AUG 25

Patience is back again as paid companion to young master R that morning... pull up to their new location aged 111 years in a beautiful old neighborhood for B to lead us in a house tour through master woodwork and all new “innards” as Patience and R get busy playing with colored wood blocks on the floor...

At home Yali is on a call with cousin Ja as they game together online – constant shout-laughing – “BRO! BRO! BRO! SKIBIDI! HAHAHAHAHA!”... some time later Yali switches off the call for a plate of hot chimichanga and apple wedges... “Okay Mom... my meeting's done...”

Patience gets a one o'clock pick-up where foil-wrapped shawarmas and other Middle Eastern foods have been bussed in by B... Patience chooses half the giant falafel wrap which she consumes before we've left the neighborhood... dark clouds stacking in the west...

Light tapping rain at home...

Patience is deep into K-drama again before we pack up for the studio once more...

Puck walks out for another shift at work as the rain increases some... “You're going to the studio again, Patience?” // “Yup!” // “You know...” **adopting his old seasoned grandpa voice** “...one day you'll realize that all the time and money you wasted on this hobby wasn't worth it...” // **oblivious to the core of this comment** “Well I'm going to be doing it for another EIGHT YEARS!” // to which Puck rolls his eyes at her juvenile “wastefulness” and consults with me on the required water gun purchase for his first Army drill...

And so Patience hits a one-hour private lesson with Miss E...

Gap time to Target for fun essentials like ibuprofen and dental floss... then waiting on the parking lot while Patience engorges on more K-drama and honey mustard pretzels while I spend a little too much time examining satellite images of rural North Korea...

And back to the studio for a ninety minute class while Mama works from her laptop on a slightly less baking parking lot under an occasional splatter of rain drops from a dark blue chalky sky...