My Abaya is Cooler Than Your Abaya

Meet Abaya Esymbasele, our other night guard. Abaya Bagajo, of family photo fame, works the first two weeks of the month, and then Abaya Esymbasele takes over. He's a good man; stays up late to watch over us, removes the acacia branches from my running path in the yard, makes the odd dry joke, and is just generally a kind and assuring presence at our house.



But I've learned not to let his gentle nature fool me into thinking he's got no sassafras. Abaya Esymbasele wears a ball cap with 1980s polarized sunglasses built into it and he owns two pink and purple patterned kikois. He's furthermore got an affinity for all things comfortable and has currently dragged Jamie's old bed frame out into the middle of the yard, placed his mattress on it, and is sleeping out under the stars... 3 feet above the dirt.