Last of the heat

The heat index is already 99 when we arrive at B's aunt's and uncle's pool that morning... a pack of cousins splashing around in cold shaded water for a few hours with swimming goggles and lemonades...

Pause for paper sacks of cheeseburgers and fries from the Courtesy Diner around one o'clock...

And they would have kept going past two... but by the time Mama is more sweat than water... time to go...

Home before three and Patience is busy creating a list of names for Sally's 17 chickens and 2 roosters including suggestions like... “Peanut Butter” and “Gumball” and “Richard”...

The heat don't stop for several hours more...

...as Puck is at work for another five hours...

...and Patience gets bussed back up to the studio...

...while Oxbear and Yali work on VR quests in the cool of home slipping into another sun-soaked evening...