June 2nd 2025
Kids sitting with SpongeBob... bowls of blueberry yogurt with cinnamon granola for Patience...
Before nine o'clock Yali is bellowing about a “virus” on his tablet... Patience fixing her hair in the bathroom pouting about something... dog decides to sit beside me in her full wafting stink while I try to eat a plate of breakfast...
Spend a longer period of time than expected that morning trying to determine whether the old cat has died up in the storage room ceiling... she hasn't... but she also won't come down...
Kids snag half an hour at the park before lunch – daily sunshine dose – as we prepare to leave Yali is writing something on the ground under the monkey bars... “Yali... do you think it's a good idea to leave the words HELP ME in the dirt?” **giggles**
Back home Puck is upstairs after a mile-run on the treadmill... experimenting with the blowtorch....
Patience chalks in two therapy sessions that afternoon...
...as Puck hits Schnucks for a four-hour shift after chastising me for not following a professional career as a violinist... “Waste of talent” he chides me after I play a quick flick from “Orpheus and Eurydice”... (aw)
Yali meanwhile asks for several tattoo designs on his forearms with colored markers... waffling between the Death Eaters of “Harry Potter” and “Jesus bless me”... he chooses Jesus...
We also have more errands... Yali's snake needs more “red wigglers”... so we stop for 45 of them before dinner...
Kids bouncing on the trampoline before burritos and a long video call with Oxbear...
Pick up Puck from work at seven... he's been dumpster diving again just like back in 2nd grade at the old school... hands me two heavy glass vases purged from the florist... then pulls out an eight-dollar bug zapper racquet he purchased... “This was a great deal” he congratulates himself...
Kids in bed... Oxbear calls from the mountains... and a little “Frasier” to wrap the evening...