Hiding from feral neighbor children. With hot chocolate. (Me, that is, not them.)

• Some days really are mac 'n cheese from a box and green beans from a can days--and that's okay!
• --The pack of feral neighborhood children is beating bees to death with sticks. In our yard/on the outside of their house. Sting, bees!
• + Drinking the first hot chocolate of Fall, creating a photo order record for Tuesday's photo gig.
• I drink hot tea even during the summer--I'd forgotten how cooler weather makes a hot drink extra-nice. Warming for the hands and the throat.

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