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Patience has lost her voice as the morning opens… she gets it back with a cup of tea

Big House…

Oxbear and Puck stoke a bonfire with Amazon packaging and invasive plants bordering the back yard, with B

Yali helps T with the ongoing penny hunt, digging with forks and spoons, collecting results from the quarter-century burial in a small coffee cup… Yali also rips a seam in his jeans, gets it fixed with aluminum duct tape

Patience mingles with the little lady cousins, drawing pictures with A in the basement

I discuss things like local archaeology hunts in the living room with fun food spread

A viewing of one of H’s and Kat’s old home plays from the camcorder, leaving laughter-tears for the whole viewing mass

Pick up a quick Dominos pizza for Puck, who gets busy browsing for military boots online stretched out on the king-sized bed wrapped up in blankets with his fat cat

Oxbear and I drive Yali and Patience back out to Nana’s and Papa’s for an overnight where they enjoy cheeseburgers and fries in the air fryer before bedtime

Back home Puck is feeling kind of nauseous… ingestion of produce seems to help… he wants more

“Elementary”… practice dismantling fake bombs, pet roosters, a proper Sherlock Holmes fire in a library hearth…