January 2nd, 2025

Patience has developed a head cold in the night… we drive out to pick up the kids from J’s office at noon and I prescribe the “sick test” for Patience… “I was thinking of going to Target this afternoon…” …sick eyes suddenly look perky… “Really? Can I come? Can we go?”

Puck is preparing to leave for work, excited about work-out possibilities for the new year as he adjusts his approach while I find him a used weight set for $250 on FB Marketplace… he leaves cheerfully and enthusiastically for four hours in Produce

Yali spends two hours down the street at his cousins’, stuffing down pigs-in-a-blanket… R also teaches him how to do “the splits”

Puck texts from work in the late afternoon… “It’s a… nightmare up here… You guys did all your grocery shopping right”… forgot about the pre-storm shopping panic… people hear a foot of snow is being dumped on Sunday and the alarm screams

Glen Carbon for the weight set

listening to a podcast discussing Rainn Wilson’s thoughts on the Baháʼí faith

pork loin, chicken, and eggs from the Costco business center

Oxbear and Patience coughing amongst themselves

A little rain in the evening as Puck has me follow him around for a few show-and-tell items : the magnificence of his torchlight in the yard after dark, his new TikTok shop leather jacket, his new weight set arrangement in the storage room… after he returns from the store with two jugs of white vinegar to de-rust the sledgehammers… begins researching rubber mats for his new arrangement, pleased with progress