June 12th 2025

There's a loud swishing sound of plastic from down the hall before seven o'clock that morning... followed by sound effects and loud laughter... Yali has found the retractable 3D-printed samurai swords Oxbear created for him overnight and he loves them... a large portion of his day is spent whirling and stabbing and battling air-monsters...

Meanwhile Patience is awake in dance camp t-shirt and braided ponytail writing a journal entry at the table with quill and ink...

With Patience at camp all day and all the boys occupied...

...I get busy weeding... scaring up armies of bewildered pillbugs under cloud-molded sky...

Oxbear then leaves to meet a young guy from church for lunch to help him find a job... returns with chocolate peanut butter cups for Mama...

Puck walks through the living room before leaving for work holding one of the good bath towels in both hands... “This is my towel now...” he smiles... “you're never gonna see it again” // “As long as it's not for some crazy cat thing...” // “Oh, it is...”

With Patience briefly back from the studio... drive the two young'uns over to the park where they hit the swings hard... come running back all sweaty smelling like a gerbil cage...

The fun continues at home running around screaming and laughing and whacking each other with the couch cushions which ends up with the butter dish upside-down on the floor (at least this one is made of metal)...

…until it's time to get back up to the studio again...