29 AUG 25

Patience is already wailing... and wailing and wailing... K-Pop around the house early morning... in those sassy braided pigtails... slurping Kool-Aid out of an aluminum straw from a glass mug...

Yali walks out in a full panda suit to counteract the K-Pop with a little lip-syncing to O-Zone and 'N Sync... he sips some of the Kool-Aid while Patience isn't looking...

Meanwhile Mama has found the giant wolf spider formerly living under the couch – which Oxbear has named “Harold” – now inside one of the empty laundry baskets... not in the mood for squishing that morning... set the laundry basket outside... if Harold feels like figuring it out... he can figure it out...

Puck returns from J's just before the mobile mechanic arrives to tinker on the steering column and busted door handle...

But the kids and I are already traveling east towards the Science Center... some fossil examining and maze-building before grabbing a couple of ICEES at the snack bar and one more viewing of “T-Rex”... Yali's request...

Sling out some hot lunches back home... Puck walks up for his plate of hot fries topped in chopped chicken and Mexican blend cheese... pleased that the door handle is finally repaired on the Lincoln but not as pleased about the need to replace the entire steering column...

The heat is increasing some... Yali throws himself back out onto the trampoline in battle-sliced Spiderman costume... imagining an entire epic of himself hanging off the edge of a spaceship in deep space...

Evening already... down south at the B's place for pizzas and “Engineering Disasters”... followed by Scattergories till nearly eleven... where questions must be asked such as... “Can an exorcism be considered 'sticky'?”... and “Why is the Catholic church selling emergency chocolate bars?”...