Day #008
“Quarantine” Day #008
- Help Yali and Patience cut out gingerbread man godfamily to put in the mail later for the V Family
- Puck does about eighty pull-ups in his room (quarantine comes with benefits); also decides he wants to raise chickens
- Discover that Yali and Patience have flooded the guinea pig cage with about three days’ supply of green Timothy hay; the small pigs were not complaining
- Take Yali and Patience on three-plus mile walk on a cold, gray afternoon, Yali jingling the whole way with an entire collection of chess pieces in his coat pockets
- Pass two very dead, and very soggy possums, on said walk, and answer lots of questions, all from Yali
- Steaks for dinner, Oxbear style
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Yali and Patience playing Architect that morning…
Yali : “NO! I SAID FIVE CHIMNEYS!… WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!… OKAY! WE NEED A FIVE EIGHT TWO! WE NEED A FIVE-EIGHTY-TWO!”
Patience : “DO IT!”
Yali, examining the paper plans in his hands : “OKAY! KEEP BUILDING!… GET BACK TO WORK!”
Later that day…
Yali handed a Lego-crafted sword to his sister, and brandished his own in the other hand. “Mom, we’re going to battle. Patience, you want to sword fight?”
Patience : “Uh huh!”
Yali, full Imagination mode : “You have to DIE for your SINS!”
Patience : cries.
Yali : “It’s okay, it’s okay. Don’t cry. Don’t cry, sweetie… Here, lay down. Drop your sword… Time to die for your sins! Say NO! NEVER!”
Patience : “NO! NEVER!”
Yali : “Patience, you have to shove me down to the ground. Patience say… (evil laugh).”
Patience : laughed evilly.