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It was cold, cold and gray on that first day in June. Nearer early April. Puck had prepared himself for the game that night by coating himself in too many layers before we left the house that morning.

“Mom! Can I wear double everything?”

“Double everything?”

“Yes! Double shirts, double pants, double socks … DOUBLE UNDERWEAR!”

“But … why?”

“So I won’t be cold for the game!”

He wasn’t cold for anything. Turns out he shed all twenty pounds of extra clothes before we had even arrived at the Big House. Except for the double underwear.

With the summer schedule rolling in fast, Carrie-Bri and I were also back on the podcast trail. While we talked out Episode #41, Mom and Puck read stories together in the living room. There might have also been a viewing of “Mr. Peabody” while I edited the whole thing later before lunch.

Puck and I stopped by Trader Joe’s for game snacks early that evening: salt and pepper pistachios for Oxbear, banana chips for Puck, and yogurt stars for myself. A decent spread.

As we arrived in the parking garage, the three of us, Puck learned about Rose’s future goal in life: upon her death to be pressed into a diamond for safe-keeping.

“Can I have her?” Puck asked.

“You want to keep Onion if she becomes a diamond? Why?”

“Because I could sell her for Legos.”

“Remind me to add an addendum to my will,” Rose texted us later, “that I cannot be sold.”

“Could I make a diamond out of roadkill?” Puck asked shortly later. “Because I could do that and have a diamond because I wouldn’t have any affection for roadkill.”

It was more of a yawn of a game. Any game is a good game to watch. But with a shut-out by the Brewers, it wasn’t the most fantastic presentation I’d ever witnessed.

After awhile, Oxbear and Puck took their traditional walk around the park, ending up outside at Ballpark Village in the grassy lawn area where Puck ran around playing hide-and-seek with a couple of little girls.

Eventually some drunk guy came up to Oxbear for a chat, “You look just like Jason Motte! I’m talkin’ to Jason Motte right now!”