24 JUL 25

Patience plunks herself into the orthodontist's chair that morning for another bracket-gluing now that her eye tooth is in... and two shades of blue bands to match her solo dress for the weekend feises...

After that we're at the Science Center... visitors squeezing into all the empty pockets escaping deadly sun rays on the other side of the walls... Yali and Patience slurp blue raspberry slushies waiting for the film to begin... forty-five minutes of critter rescue in California... a script printed for Yali...

When we return... before leaving for work Puck has stretched a newly arrived cover over the shiny car-beast... he's kept the name her previous owner provided... “Presley”...

At the studio for another ninety-minute class... wait on a baking parking lot finally cooling in the shade despite still clocking in a 105 heat index... York peppermint patties and a stack of books... residue of an overly hot week slowly shaking off hoping for a little rain...