09 AUG 25
Wake to a loud announcement from Patience that the cat has once again defiled the quilts on the couch in the night... we live in a lawless zoo apparently...
But Oxbear has already cleaned up the mess and left for his weekly meeting with AJ before joining Theodore at the H's house down the road to shovel gravel and dirt out of their basement...
After Patience stomps out two hours of endurance dance training at the studio...
Load her and Yali into my car – where the middle seatbelt has now also rusted out... graduating Yali to his first-ever ride in the front seat of a vehicle – and bus them over to Aquaport...
Find a cement block wall in the shade and sit on it with my notebooks for about two hours... something about me must have indicated “staff” though because halfway through our visit a woman with an Eastern European accent walks over to me and inquires... “Excuse me? Do you work here?”... maybe because I'm the only individual in the park not wearing a bathing suit...
Back home after that 103 heat index sauna experience...
...Oxbear and Yali hit the movies for “Sketch” which seems like it should be a walk through Yali's spectacular imagination... after he demonstrates for me a spontaneously-crafted magic trick with potato chips and quarters...
...Puck is gabbing online gaming with friends...
...and Mama stretches out with her laptop on the couch next to Patience who has just finished baking a tray of Jiffy raspberry muffins to begin another K-drama... never enough...
Several hours later Yali powers home after loving the film...
...as everyone gathers for Puck to goof around with the young'uns... threatens to explode one of the raspberry muffins at Yali's head... “You're gonna need the dog in here for clean up...” he declares as Yali shrieks in an enormous toothy smile... “You'd better cover your orifices Yali... this is gonna hurt!”... Yali throws up a pillow shield as the muffin blasts towards him and falls to the couch unharmed... “HAHAHAHA!”... as both kids take turns jumping on Puck's back to test his muscle power...