18 AUG 25

By early afternoon Yali is outside in a 111 heat index cinched up in a long-sleeved collared shirt, pants, Converse sneakers, completely soaked under the spray nozzle on the garden hose... recreating dinosaur carnage scenes with action figures as a river of fake – very red – blood courses down the front walk towards the driveway to the garbled yells of agony from the puppet master... pretty sure the mailman pauses to get a second look before moving down to the next house...

After dropping Oxbear at his United flight to Denver...

...Mr. Dinosaur plugs in the hot glue gun back home for modifications on his Desert Eagle holster belts for newly imagined superhero costume... burning his fingers twice...

...while Patience switches on “Napoleon Dynamite” and a pan of chicken tenders slides into the oven for dinner-and-a-movie...