31 JUL 25
Last day of assistant-teaching Irish dance camp sends Patience wailing Bruno Mars lyrics over and over and over again around the house before and after breakfast...
...while Puck packs for his weekend camping trip with friends in some place four hours away but he's not really sure what direction yet...
City in a great cool gray wrap... Yali is busy carting away fallen honeysuckle now molding in patches around the hedge in exchange for another costume purchase...
...before returning indoors – the tortured artist – feverishly mixing paints for minifig alterations while bellowing about missing pieces as I walk out the door to grab Patience...
The successful conclusion of dance camp leaves Patience recovering at home by fighting with her brothers slinging rude names at each other from room to room...
...as Yali realizes he's left a frozen chimichanga in the microwave for 14:00 minutes instead of 1:40 minutes...
...and Puck walks out of his room to bark about the smoke and the smell of burning tortilla flesh before another shift at work...
A short time later Oxbear emerges from another meeting to hang out with the kids... noting a half-finished burger left on a plate from lunch... he goes in for a bite... “DON'T EAT THAT DAD! IT HAS SPRAYPAINT ON IT!” Patience yells at him // What? Why?” // Yali stares at his sister... “Patience you need to get a therapist” // “I HAVE a therapist!”...
Some time later that evening under a slice of smokey moon... after everyone is home again... Puck slips into the driver's seat of the minivan packed with everything he'll need and probably not enough of it for the next few days somewhere he still isn't quite sure where yet... with hugs and goodbyes and waving hands from everyone as he zips out under a sifting shoal of Canadian wildfire smoke...
For grins : partial Googling record of July...
- Lifespan of garter snake in captivity
- Why did so many people stop using the Oxford comma?
- Meaning of the name “Maris”
- Is it illegal to leave pennies on railroad tracks?
- Time from Frankfurt to Ashbagat in a plane
- Orange snakes without stripes in Missouri
- Does garlic repel mosquitoes?
- What kinds of crops are grown in Alaska?
- What is Agartha?
- What to do if you accidentally drink hydrogen peroxide
- What to do if you accidentally drink rubbing alcohol
- List of historical heat waves
- Nate Bargatze net worth
- Does Afghanistan have a railway system?
- Does Iceland have a railway system?
- What is “bubble and squeak”?
- History of the term “zizzy”