10 JAN 26

Waking to a six-thirty alarm following dreams of an angry mallard the size of an elephant...

Plate a hot breakfast for Puck already in his APFU for a morning drill down in Forest Park...

He is delivered in a cold cold rain that turns a little slushy as I arrive home later to the rest of the house that has woken to a little classic jazz for taking down the tree...

Grab a few library reserves for Patience including a book of more than 100,000 names which she begins ravenously reading aloud alphabetically... before scooting her under clearing skies to the studio for three hours...

Back home to help box up the big grumpy gray thing for a vet appointment... she slides almost comfortably onto the fuzzy cushion Patience saved for her transport as Oxbear and Yali drive her off to what becomes about an hour and a half of waiting for a room...

Meanwhile Puck is done two hours early and waiting on a bench outside the recruitment office for me... he was faster than half the group and spent some time watching old footage of the St. Louis Zoo at the History Museum during the optional scavenger hunt post work-out... he's also hungry...

So we're sailing down the road arguing about things like tater tots and the return of Jesus while he sucks down a cherry limeade and a Sonic burger...

And just enough time to dump him at home before back to the studio for Patience...

Pulling back into the driveway two seconds before the boys return with the old granny cat with a broken tooth apparently who has Stockholm Syndrome'd herself into her carrying case and doesn't want to leave it...

It's evening and the kids are chaos-ing together as they will do... Puck stapling staples into the air as they shower over the floor while researching rare aviators online unwrapping another Tootsie Pop... while Yali wails out more cardboard electric guitar from the basement... and Patience is just happily participating in whatever act the show throws up next...