15 AUG 25

Patience is back with more cousin-tots that morning... young master R comes running up in a matching set of firetruck prints with a great smile to meet his playmate...

Then I get back to the boys who need things like tea and lunch and laundry...

...before scooting Yali down to Fenton to meet a friend and his two brothers and grandpa for three hours of swimming in a heat index that will push to at least 106 before they leave...

Patience is ready for pick-up at one o'clock with a plate of freshly baked orange muffins...

...and Puck is back home ready for a drop-off at work because the heat is too hot for walking even a few blocks... but not before annoying Patience a little... because that is also his job... “Patience... turn that off... you are not watching that stupid show again...” // “But it's K-Pop Demon Hunters!” ...while she runs into the other room for something... he swipes the remote and hides it in his jacket sleeve... Patience returns a minute later... “Wha?... Where is it?... Where is the remote, Puck? You STOLE it!”... he grins... after allowing the annoyance to marinate for awhile... he commands the big reveal by slinging the remote out of his sleeve like a magic trick... it subsequently explodes into the floor and flies under the couch... “PUCK! YOU BROKE IT!!” // **grins** “Oops... huh... yeah I guess it really did explode...” as if it's some big surprise // “Probably because you sent it out of your shirt sleeve at a hundred miles an hour...” I suggest...

So while the big man gets to hauling veg at work...

...Yali is ready in Fenton... “They spent all three hours in the lazy river...” their grandpa announces when we arrive...

Hours later orange glow into night... everyone home... C.S. Lewis space trilogy for the kids tucked into bed...