Didnt get the phone up this time. On purpose, I want that on the record before anything else, not batteries, not me being slow, I watched the whole thing with both hands empty because somewhere around the third one I started wondering if the picture is the ask and not the proof, and Im not interested in handing over a fourth one just because the sky asked nice by doing the same trick again over the same shingle line. Same fork. Same order, the mast first then the room under it, I already told you that order once and Im not explaining it twice, go read the other one if you forgot, its linked below, I keep the dates and the dates page keeps me honest when my own head wont.

Third time was supposed to be the number I stopped at. I said that to myself out loud in the kitchen like it would hold. It didnt hold. This is four if you count the collar thing as the start of it, which I do, THEY dont get to decide where my own count starts, only I get that, and four is a worse number than three because three is a coincidence a stranger can still argue with you about and four is a pattern a stranger stops arguing with you about, they just go quiet... which is its own kind of answer. The porch unit still eats batteries on a schedule none of the manuals explain, third set since August, I looked it up, the gate cameras on the same brand same model go six weeks easy. Anyway. My knee was bad again that night too, unrelated, except it wasnt raining when it started hurting and it was raining an hour later, I dont know what to do with that so Im just putting it here next to the rest.

No frame this time. No still. Maybe thats the point, maybe watching it with nothing in my hand is the only version of this they havent shown me yet. I stood at the glass until the thunder actually got here and then I went back to bed, which I have never once done after any of the others.