Summer Break Day #20

  • Early that morning, Patience raids the pack of Hershey’s bars on the counter that I forgot to hide the night before…
  • Yali visits the nephrologist for his annual single-kidney inspection
  • Take Yali and Patience to Castlewood to browse for fossils and stone tools (find a few); they wade around in their swimsuits and meet a tree frog a passing boy caught in a QT cup
  • Hit the road home and pick up Culver’s vanilla custard studded with M&Ms for the kids; it’s summertime
  • Puck experiments with the wood burning kit from his birthday, including an attempt at making toast with it (his favorite snack)

 

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Later that evening, when Puck wanted to test his strength on the old storage room wall, he punched right through the drywall. The hole that remained from his half-Texan fist, he covered up with a typed sheet that read :

“This is a wall”

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