Collette

Open the bedroom door that morning to Yali wearing a laundry basket over his head dancing in the hallway… Patience walks out of the bathroom in her church dress with her hair brushed long and dark over her face… “Hello?” she says in her creepiest voice… and Oxbear is busy making “nerdy things” (as Yali refers to them) on the 3D printer…

Church… fourth Sunday in Advent…

Tony’s amazing steak, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich on an English muffin, and a chocolate long john, with a Pepsi… sin…

Various arguments and sulking and fighting and complaining at home before things calm and settle… dying ocean rage-waves… instead…

Patience decides to help clean the kitchen…

Yali constructs Lord Voldemort minifgs (from various points in his sinister timeline)…

and Puck prepares to leave for five hours in Produce…

Drive south…

Oxbear, Yali, and Patience explore Mastodon State Park hiking in a sinking red honey light settling over old bones buried in the tangle of ancient wood… Mama didn’t bring a coat… waits in the Toyota, researching pencil pouches online

A&W… cheeseburgers, curds, root beer

All home together…

Youngest ones asleep…

Puck shopping for cargos online, telling his cat he would make a nice garment…

Watching “Elementary” with Oxbear…