29 OCT 25

Drive Oxbear out to O'Fallon for more all-day team meeting...

Drive back home to plate breakfast...

Drive to the old school for another volunteer shift where it's Book Character Day and Patience is geared up as Laura Ingalls Wilder in her sun bonnet printed in roses... and Yali gets fist bumps and greetings from old classmates and Puck's former Second Grade teacher dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh in a gold cape...

Drive home to plate lunch for oldest son leaving for Wentzville to break down the Renaissance fair in his new rain gear...

Drive Yali to the orthodontist for a bracket repair... tags himself in some orange bands this time...

Drive Yali and Patience to McD's for a tall paper bag of hot food...

Drive home to schedule hotels and feis payments and softshoe fittings for Arkansas...

Drive Patience to the studio just in time for four cop cars to respond to another crash on the street out front... it's a popular crash site... as constellations of rain whisper against the windshield...

Drive back out to O'Fallon in a mash of lavender cloud split with gold... to pick up Oxbear and one of his co-workers from England to drop her off at her hotel... driving in America especially at night isn't probably super fun for them...

Drive home in a quiet night while Puck is out at a Mexican restaurant with friends after grubbing through the cold mud all day...

And with all that running up and down and backwards and forwards... there was no time for Yali to spread peanut butter on his math sheets and feed them to the dog... not this time anyway...