I found this odd little installation in the powder room.
If I thought about it longer, maybe I could decipher the message.
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Hellacious heifers heartily hurled hapless hyenas into hordes of heathen hydrangeas.
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The asphalt canyon was bounded by a green edged 7 ELEVEN sign to the east and a red WELLS FARGO sign to the east.
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In negotiations, an impasse may be circumvented via expanding the field of deliberation, or just demand more.
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Massive mushrooms moshed mercilessly making mango mahi-mahi mustard.
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I lost a life every time he hit me; he gained a life every time he swatted one away.
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The conversation became unnecessarily lively around the cherry stained lunch table.
Just a momenthe tried to interrupt her
I told him to waitOK you can talk now
he started crying
“I don’t want you to talk when daddy is done talking!”You can’t say that!
between gasps
he tried to tickle her
You really can’t do that!
wept some more and stopped
“I want you to talk!”
What do you want me to say?
䷰pot
fire
boil
big
boom -
He started a cookie shop on the faux marble coffee table with chips that Grandma won twenty-five years ago at a test launch for the casino’s grand opening.
Dollar Cookie (DEALER chip)
Veggie Cookie (green chip)
Red Flag Cookie (Abe Lincoln Chip)Original Cookie (red chip with gold filigree)
Red Bean Cookie (red chip)
Money Cookie (light blue chip)Popcorn Cookie (white chip)
Water Cookie (blue chip)
Flag Cookie (FDR Chip)Snow Flake Cookie (purple and cyan chip)
Rock Chip (Harry Truman Chip)
Lock Chip (black chip)䷧
south west / lucky storms
doing nothing / head home
got work / hop to it -
Stray notes from July 4, waiting for the neighbors’ fireworks.
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A splash of colour
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Lumbering llamas laboriously labeled lubricated lizards locating loathsome laudanum.
In May, we came out of our hyper-cautious shell and started doing indoor activities like shopping with the kids. On my birthday, they insisted on getting a stuffie at IKEA even though my wife isn’t fond of these dust bunnies. She also insisted on having this little gal cool off for a few weeks. We finally brought her in in June.
At first the boy wanted to call her “Claire Elephant” because he’s obsessed naming everything after his imaginary little sister Claire. He then proposed “Smalley”. Mama countered with “Mini”. After some debate, Mini won.
That evening they misplaced her in the messy playroom and we spent half an hour looking for her. When she woke up the next day, my daughter was not amused when she couldn’t find Mini in her safe place (because I borrowed her for the sketch).
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This moment of magic was inspired by recent newsletter, where Emily Charlotte Powell shares her in-progress drawing of a mermaid-yet-to-be-named.
Old scribbles by the boy. I enjoy these weird serendipities. 
The boy has been burning through paints — I borrowed a little for a change.
