13 JAN 26

Patience is explaining her most recent dream to me as she usually does in the first moments of the morning... “And the penguin was wearing a name tag!”...

...as Yali sleepily joins the table for a cream cheese bagel sandwich as he zip-ties a 3D-printed knife wrapped in metallic tape to a honeysuckle staff already wrapped in straps and plastic syringes for an upcoming film prop... “Yali? Are those cobwebs in your hair?”...

Big bro is pounding down the hall looking for the toothpaste... “Where is it?” he bellows... “I know one of those kids took it for something that wasn't for brushing teeth! Nothing in this house is ever used for its intended purpose!” he roars...

The bear is calmed several minutes later with a hot plate of bacon and breakfast sausage...

After plotting points on a graph and beard trimming and Irish heritage research and feeding the dog mountains of peanut butter... because Patience just can't handle the “cuteness” of that dumb mutt... “I WUV YOU SO MU-UU-UU-UU-CH!”...

...Patience is back clacking around on the studio floor again a few hours later... before a cooling rain in a low wind pushes in after dark...