Sheep Guarding Llama

Dominica is still out in Utica, the girls are still visiting with her parents.  Dominica is at her sorority reunion weekend.  So it is still just dad and I down on the farm.  I worked most of the day, but we got a bit of time to visit.

This evening we went up to Batavia and had dinner at the Town and Country Diner, which is really good.

Dominica won a beer pong match at her reunion, which is totally not the kind of thing you would expect her to be good at.

Dad broke a tooth this evening while eating peanut butter.

My friend Phil, from Atlanta, got into town today, but I had no car so we could not hang out.  He’s heading up to Toronto to enjoy a weekend up there ahead of MangoCon back down here in Rochester this coming week.

This morning Dominica got up and took the girls out to Utica to see her parents.

Dad and I just hung out today, I was asleep for nearly all of the day yesterday so today was our first chance to actually catch up.

 

 

I slept all afternoon and most of the night last night.  Was so tired.  Driving straight through from Dallas is so exhausting.  I did get up a little in the middle of the night, but it wasn’t for very long.  A couple of hours.  I did some posting and stuff, and then went back to sleep.

I slept so much today, it triggered getting behind on SGL again.

This afternoon turned into a big New York summer downpour.

Our Peekskill house had a showing today, we were hopeful, but nothing came of it.

Olivia came over this afternoon to play with Liesl and Luciana.  She was pretty shy, but they are very excited to have a little cousin to play with.

Weather was so extreme today that there were two tornadoes just over in Erie County, one county away!

We needed some new video recording gear for MangoCon, so we ordered a new Panasonic Lumix camera as recommended by Maggie from B+H in NYC.

The kids are leaving to go to Utica tomorrow to stay with their grandparents while we are here in Rochester for MangoCon 2017.  So this was our only day with there here at my dad’s place.

Got to bed at eleven thirty tonight.  I tried to take a late shower and everyone woke up and needed to use the bathroom, so I spent about an hour just trying to get to the shower!

 

We did a super long drive yesterday and pushed through the night arriving at dad’s place this morning.  Boy were we tired.  But Dominica had helped with some of the driving and it saves a load of time and money to not have to stop at a hotel, especially when we have so many kids.

Altogether we did the drive in just 24.5 hours.  Not too bad.  We did the Oklahoma and Missouri route.  It was mid day when we arrived today.  We visited for just a little bit, then I was off to bed to sleep for a very long time.

Today is the day, we are driving to New York.  We got up early as there are a lot of kids to get ready.  And, just as we were about to go out the door, we had Luciana lose a tooth!

We took out the trash before getting on the road and discovered that some of the boxes that we had been storing in the garage have disappeared.  We have no idea where they have gone.  Maybe they are in the attic.  Maybe they are buried.  Maybe someone took them.  We have no idea.  We aren’t sure what was there which makes it extra hard.

We grabbed Taco Bell as we were heading out to get onto the road.

It was a long day of driving and we ended up doing pretty well and decided to just push ahead.  We were planning to stop tonight if we got tired, but I did well enough that we decided that we would just keep going.  So we drove through the night.