February 22nd, 2025
Oxbear and Yali wrestling around for fun that morning before Oxbear audibly cracks his nose in the enthusiasm of roughhousing... he leaves by seven-thirty with G.L. and A.M. for a day of shooting down south...
Yali joins cousin Ja online to game for a couple of hours...
Then bus the kids towards the studio in a crackling bright sunlight listening to music of Algeria... Patience will dance for three hours...
Home with Yali to prepare three pans of bacon for later in the day...
While I work on that, Yali dishes himself a bowl of Bluebell chocolate peanut butter overload, turns on SpongeBob... Yali shortly later offers his analysis of the ice cream : “It tastes like Home Depot wood”...
Pick up Patience at one-thirty... chats at length about one of the girls clubs she helps run as Vice President in the studio bathroom... they admitted a new member that afternoon...
Oxbear back from J's chastising his cat for sitting on the clean laundry...
Yali and Patience dump themselves back out into the last of the snow – no doubt – of the season... also spend some time quality-fighting because of course they have personal daily quotas to meet...
Evening comes in quick... Oxbear returns from his day out to drive Yali and Patience to Nana's and Papa's for an overnight...
Then at Rev. K and his wife's invitation we join their table for trivia night at church to raise funds for the school... bring a plate of pinwheel sandwiches to add to the Mexican dip and chips, smashed potatoes with parmesan, hot sausages, and other items shared by the table...
Some three hours later our table arrives a few points behind the leader in 3rd place... with all those random answers you'd expect from a trivia night like... farfalle pasta, archipelago, the Book of Job, etc., etc... and texts from Puck requesting “food” on our drive home...