Fourth

Morning in the kitchen boiling and peeling eggs...

Oxbear and the boys are at the Big House for Puck to consult with Francis on the Jag... prognosis not good... Francis recommends it's time to move on to a new set of wheels...

...while I introduce Patience to “Freaky Friday” between more boiling and peeling and slicing in the kitchen...

Afternoon... Puck is slumped on the couch browsing for alternative vehicle options online and discussing the possibility of bank loans...

Then while he hits another shift at work...

...the rest of us are in Florissant with a passel of family and pans of fried chicken and deviled eggs and strawberry pretzel salad and all those picnic food things...

Walk Yali and Patience and T down to the old school yard past vegetable gardens spilling over in green tomatoes and peppers and basil – the boys wearing firecracker red 3D-printed superhero masks – in a 92 degree heat index... we don't stay long...

Then home again briefly to grab Puck after work and the pack of us returns to Florissant for the electric pop and earth-shaking bang of a light garden in the sky... probably their best one so far...

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