08 JUN 26

Slow growl of thunder on the other side of the window that morning...

The kids are scrounging breakfast in the kitchen... but since Yali claims that the Frosted Flakes smell of “metal and static” they're more interested in the boiled eggs I've got ready on the stove...

By the time I'm rolling them to their summer camp exploring Ancient Greece... the rain is heavy and driving...

But between the several scheduled appointments of the day... one of them being canceled when Patience's speech therapist texts me that she broke her neck while hiking... the splashing rain dulls and is gone by the early afternoon in a hazy warmish green...

Hours later Yali and Patience burst back home for popsicles and “Little House on the Prairie” after a full day of learning and socializing...

...before Yali attempts more brickwork in Dutchtown but the mud is too muddy and with him rescuing every bug and slug he finds amongst the blocks it would take too many hours so they wait for another day...

And Patience BEGS me to video Puck after his teeth-pulling the next morning... "PLEASE! PLEASE! I want to see what he DOES!!"...

Then somehow it's nearly eleven-thirty at night and I'm still researching that mystery 19th-century Chinese ancestor while most man and beast sleep...