February 12th, 2025

Waking... no precipitation yet... all the schools are closed though...

Patience still in a nest of blankets on the couch... cranking up another “Little House” marathon because it's going to be that kind of day...

Yali seems a little improved... gets to giggling over his feature of the day – Over the Hedge – from my laptop propped on the bookshelf in his room...

Freezing rain by ten o'clock...

Feeling a little “under that weather” myself... sit with a soft-boiled egg and an article interview with Melissa Sue Anderson... but not bad enough to stop washing dishes or stitching on Patience's solo dress for the weekend...

Big fluffy flakes of snow by ten-thirty...

After lunch, Puck sits at the table working on a project with sand paper and disco ball mirrors...

Oxbear is also busy with projects, between endless meetings, printing things on the 3D-printer... including a heart-shaped “chocolate box” for Patience...

In the mid-afternoon Patience helps clean the kitchen, then asks for a game of LIFE so I sit with her sneezing and such while she moves all the pieces for me in case I've also had the influenza the past two days and just haven't acknowledged it, or as Puck scoffs at me whenever I remind him how little I get sick... “You get sick all the time... you just don't stop for it”...

Out in the slush to the studio through more sifting snowflakes...

While Patience dances for an hour, I sit in a warm car with a pile of tissues...

Home for bacon-and-cheese lamb-burgers prepared by Oxbear... so good... Yali has a few bites too...

Crash in my room for awhile with needle and thread and Jeopardy...