22 APR 26

It’s a patch in the day between obligations...

Dog is aggressively sunbathing by the old stump early that afternoon... panting against the dazzling fireball and increasing heat but refusing a water break... she just wants to be with her kids...

Puck has dragged the trampoline up to the top of the yard through that overgrown salad of Missouri delicacies such as henbit and ground ivy and wild violets... laced with too much rain and a slow mowing schedule...

Yali joined the party awhile ago... his clothes are already fully soaked... sprinkles of garden hose ambrosia resting throughout his hair... so black it almost bears a sheen of violet in the bright sun...

The weather is slow this afternoon... only blue-brushed dome and not much else... but with Oxbear and Patience driving to Oklahoma for the weekend and a potential tornado outbreak... I spend a little time working on that timeline... though we won’t see any of it up and over here...

Yali and Patience are now playing a new game on the trampoline... circling each other in a large bouncing dance of daring... each holding a Mason jar filled with agua screech-laughing at each other as they continue to bounce up and down and around and around... this can end only well...