And so many things, gosh.

"Yup! Thousands and thousands of things!"

- ooh, maybe she should look at it to get ideas of stuff she can make cartoons of, sometime. There's probably lots of things that would work fine that she just doesn't know about.

"That's a great idea! Ooh, you know what might be a good place to start -" Julie opens a new tab and finds her the wiki page on simple machines.

Ooh. Yeah, that's useful. Aaaand yep now she's lost in wikipedia again.

Julie laughs and goes off to do a little gardening.

The room has acquired a collection of variously complex machines by the time she gets back, some just instantiations of simple things the wiki talks about, others combinations of a few, to see how they work together, or models of more complex inventions copied from diagrams.

Julie spins a wheel with her finger. "You're having fun, I can tell."

Yep!

Uh - she can clear this out if it's in the way, sorry.

"Nope, you're fine. You might wanna do any really big projects in the yard though."

She can do that, yeah.

Julie weaves through the room, tipping levers and turning gears as she goes, and gets started on dinner, which is burgers.

Denice clears some of it out, once Julie is through, and begins replacing it with an elaborate rube goldberg machine.

Winona comes home while Julie is out back grilling the burgers. "Oh goodness!" she says of the Rube Goldberg machine.

She's been figuring out what she can do with her magic! Turns out there's some pretty cool stuff.

She manifests a marble to start the machine going; it pushes levers and pulls pulleys and eventually opens a box to release a star-shaped balloon.

Winona applauds. "That's so clever! How long did this take?"

Just that, not very long, but she's been reading and trying stuff most of the afternoon.

"That's so cool! Where's Julie?"

Out back!

"Cool." Winona goes around the machine to find Julie, and comes back with a plate of burgers. "Do you care what's on your burger or should I just put all the vegetables on it so I feel responsible?"

Vegetables are fine.

Denice receives a burger on a toasted bun with ketchup and pickles and lettuce and tomato.

And she eats. And mostly doesn't... well, tries not to, anyway... play with gearboxes too much at the table.

Neither Glory suggests that it might be an inappropriate dinner activity. They eat their burgers (cheese, mayo, ketchup, mustard, and pickles for Julie, lettuce and tomato and mayo for Winona).

It's really nice.

Sometimes there is after-dinner conversation but if today isn't one of those days she's going to go see if she can make a perpetual motion machine.