07 FEB 26

Yali's voice has dropped into the basement and a little lower by the morning... though the cough has been rescinded and he's already cooking new ideas for later in the day...

But first... freestyle skiing during breakfast while Oxbear is gone shooting with pals... before we scoot Patience to the studio listening to the traditional music of West Africa on the radio...

Back home where my white orchid from Puck last Mother's Day is in a winter bloom in the window... to boil eggs while Yali watches ski jump with his feet warming over the floor vent... it's heating up in the Great Outdoors but it's taking awhile for the Lesser Indoors to catch up...

When Patience returns from three hours of rehearsals at the studio to crash on the couch with a large book of paint-by-sticker for hours of ice dancing and figure skating...

Oxbear returns from his day out with a large BLK MKT sushi burrito which I can't finish myself so Patience hoovers up all the scraps of pickle kimchi slaw arugula shallots and southern fried chicken with the added fire sauce that's too hot para mí...

...while Yali's in the kitchen pouring and carefully mixing a load of varied ingredients into a washed out half gallon milk jug to create purple alien blood... he can be seen some time later wearing both purple and the original red blood goo locked in intense battle with a large gold plastic skull where the skull is making amazing headway...