17 NOV 25

After a morning of cold sunshine... and some running and gathering..,

...Patience and I hit a Theraplay session in south county where we stencil gold panda tattoos on each other's hands...

...before slinging through Target for gifts and a pair of Stranger Things pajama pants for Yali...

At home two cartons of eggs fall out of the fridge where one of the kids has balanced them on a mostly empty box of canned Waterloo... fourteen eggs are saved...

...as all the boys return from the hardware store...

Puck sets up the card table where he and Oxbear begin filling in all the cracked glass of the Lincoln's sunroof...

...and Mandarin orange chicken wraps are served for early dinner...

...before Oxbear and Yali leave for fencing class driving into an enormous lightning storm...

Crackling static of thunder in a cold stillness... moths still fluttering at the porch lights...

While I deal with emails and archives...

...Patience randomly spins around from the couch... “Did you know that you once had a BUTT in your stomach?”...

“What... I mean... yeah I guess you're right but... Patience where do you get this stuff from?”...

**with satisfaction** “Nowhere... I just thought of it myself”...