Sheep Guarding Llama

Saturday.  Today was working on the Borntrager US website and binge watching the third season of The Ranch that had released last night.  We only barely managed to get started on the show yesterday so had nearly nine episodes to watch today.  The entire season is only ten episodes.

Liesl spent the whole day with Hyde, the dog that has moved in with us.  She made him a blanketed space in the living room and spent the whole day sharing the blanket with him on the floor.  She loved it.  They had a great time snuggling together and playing her Nintendo 3DS.  She is still addicted to Tomodachi Life or whatever that is.  She has been playing it nearly all week, although it is really Luciana’s game.

Dominica made egg sandwiches for lunch today.  Then in the afternoon she whipped up home made cinnamon rolls.  Not a huge batch like last time, just a smaller one this time so that we could eat it all in one day and not try to save any for tomorrow because they are so much better on the first day.  Not a kind of food that you want to save.

Rachel and Shawn were in and out today, but mostly out.  They both had Father’s Day activities elsewhere and Shawn had to work tonight.

I am on day nine of my streak with DuoLingo.  I’m working really hard on my Spanish.  I completed the Italian course over the winter.  The Spanish one is much larger; it is the most popular course on DuoLingo.  So getting through this is so much more effort.

I played some Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing with the girls.  We have nearly “beaten” the game for the second time after the game got totally reset on us.  We are just a few races away from earning back every track, driver and song that is available.

Tonight Dominica and I watched Tina Fey’s movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot from a few years ago that is now available on Netflix.  It is a biographical story of a reporter that went to Afghanistan in 2003.

It was one when we finally headed off to bed.

I got up and worked all morning.  It is Friday.  The week of heat is continuing.  We’ve had nearly a full week of three digit heat index.

This afternoon the girls and I went out to the playground again.  This time we went to Taco Bell first so that I would have food to eat while they were there.  A better use of my time.

It was super hot again, but once they acclimated to the heat, both girls had a great time.  They recognized friends from yesterday and were playing with them straight away.  And they already knew about the water fountain, so we used that for the entire time.

It was not as busy today as it was yesterday.  Must be because it is Friday.  Towards the end, we were the only ones there.  But we got sun and air and exercise.  The girls were worn out and ready to head home when we were done.

Shawn and Rachel moved back in today.  Technically Rachel never left, but she basically left.  But now she’s back.  Or at least, technically back.  And Hyde, Shawn’s dog, has moved in as well.  So we saw them some today, but Rachel had band practice in Grapevine so was gone pretty much all evening and Shawn had to work.  The girls are very excited that there is a dog in the house.

Netflix’s original sitcom The Ranch‘s third season released today so we sat down and between all of the interruptions that we normally get around here, we managed to make it through one and a half episodes of it before it was time to go to bed.  Maybe we will get to watch some of it tomorrow.

Dominica made pancakes for breakfast today.  Then late in the morning I took the girls to the big playground down the street where they played for an hour or two.  We discovered that it is loads of fun to get them all wet in the water fountain, then play for ten minutes, the repeat.  The heat index was 105 today, so loads of water is needed.  But we had a good time.

I had a quiet night to myself with some rum and telenovels.

Worked this morning.  Fed myself with steam in bag veggies.

This evening the kids and I hung out together.  Then I watched La Hipocondriaca.

After working all day, Dominica took her turn going to quiz night tonight with the crew.  I stayed home with my girls.  No way I was leaving to go to Quiz Night and not be with Liesl and Luciana after they have been away for so long.  We had a fun evening hanging out together.

The girls and I played Overcooked together tonight.

I had long discussions today about how awesome Taco Bell is.  I think that I converted a number of people.  Taco Bell should elect me as some kind of good will burrito ambassador.