Kalib's parents snatch him away from the lawn mower so he can learn how to go to Kindergarten

The boys' mom and dad showed up tonight to pick up Kalib and take him back to Anchorage with them. They are leaving Lynxston with us, because he is still too much for his mom to handle. She is much improved since I last saw her, but still she is very sore and on medication and Lynx is a rowdy guy. Kalib did not want to go. He wanted to stay here. He loves it here - I think in part because of our big, wild, yard which tonight he got to mow a bit of, but maybe he likes his grandma and grandpa, too. He had to go home, though, because tomorrow he starts a "Kindergarten Readiness" program.

He will learn how not to take a nap (I don't think that will be much of a challenge for Kalib. If he took any naps during this longer-than average stay with us, I was not aware of them), how to use a back pack and how to ride a school bus.

That ought to be pretty damned exciting.

They bought pizza for us all and I took a little break to help eat it. They just left. I need to get back to work. I don't want to, but if I work until midnight I can get in two more hours and 20 minutes - if I go until 1:00, three more hours and 20 minutes.

I feel lazy, though. I don't want to do anything, but visit Margie, Lynxton and Jim. But I've got to get this done, so back to work I go. Well, maybe I'll be lazy for a few minutes, anyway, go back into the house and say "hi" to Margie and Lynx. Jimmy can stay here to watch things. Or, he can follow me into the house, if he chooses.

The boys in the backyard who were somewhere else, part one

The first boy I found in the backyard who was not there was the one in Anchorage: Jobe.

For the moment, I give up on the "real camera" post I have been working on for over an hour and put up this quick and dirty Instagram instead

Earlier this evening, I stated I would make a "real camera" post tonight, as a comparison of some of the same subjects I had shot with my iPhone and then Instagramed. The fact is, I have now been working on that post for well over an hour and it'll probably take me close to another hour to finish it! So I'm going to save it for later and just put this up from earlier in the day. It is Kalib and Jobe, playing with the airplanes in the swimming pool they had made in the old green canoe. It has taken me almost no time at all to make this post. And that's the big difference. I think I am on Instagram to stay. You will see though, when I finally put the other one up… oh hell I don't know what you will see… 

Reunion not with just one, but all three, posted on the move

Lavina's reunion with her sons also included Kalib and Lynxton, not just Jobe. So I decided I would try to get up another post before I left Anchorage and I would do it at stoplights. I might have succeeded too, but I was at only one stoplight for any length of time and there was some kind of police incident there, and since I photograph slices of life as I see from my car, I shot that with my "real" camera. Now I am in line at Taco Bell to get a snack before I go home so I am making my post from right here in this line.

Reunited

Reunited with his mom. The boys' parents showed up at our house, just before I left for Anchorage to see my friend. It was the first time they had seen their mother since her surgery on Wednesday. I prepared this post as I was walking from the hospital elevator to the parking lot. I am just about to my car. Before I open the door, I will post it.