Sheep Guarding Llama

Tuesday.  Had a slow morning and then at lunch time Brian Watson came up and we met at Chilie’s right down the street for some lunch.  He is working right down the street these days so it is easy for us to meet up for lunch as most of the restaurants are between my place and his office and it is only about five minutes between us, anyway.

Today is Monday and we had a very shocking day.  This morning Francesca called to tell us that Albus, the dog that Joe had had for the last year or two and that has been with the Grices since the baby was born passed away in his sleep last night!  We have no idea how old he was, but he was such a sweet dog and we did not know if he was two or eight years ago.  But apparently he had a heart attack in his sleep and went more or less peacefully and no one knew it until the kids tried to wake him up this morning.

Albus was a rescued boxer and just the sweetest dog.  We are so surprised and so upset that he is gone.  What a terrible loss.  Everyone is devastated.  No one had any idea that anything was wrong with him.  All of the kids are having a really rough time with this.

This evening Rachel watched the kids and Dominica and I finally got to go out on a real “just us” date.  It’s still the week of our anniversary so I guess that this counts.

Dominica and I went up to a place in Plano that had been recommended but we walked in and it was just that awful suburban sprawling crap that I cannot stand.  We turned around and left right away.  Not to self, never ever go to Plano for anything.  There will never be something in Plano that will make us happy.

We did some quick research and found a decent cocktail bar not far from where we were so we walked down and did a light dinner and drinks at a place called Pepper Smash.

We were not out very late.

Four years ago today Dominica and I were at SpiceWorld Austin and the girls were staying in League City with their Aunt Francesca.  I found the old picture on my Facebook feed today.

Today is Sunday.  We took it easy today, Dominica and I spent the afternoon hanging out together.

 

Beautiful day today.

This morning Rachel got up and made breakfast, which was nice.  It’s a lazy Saturday around here.

Had a quiet afternoon, did some posting.  Then Dominica and Rachel went out dancing tonight and I stayed home with the girls and played video games.  It was nice to have an evening in.

Had a busy morning today.  Got up and was in a meeting all morning and was tied up until the middle of the afternoon.  So my day went by pretty quickly and by afternoon I had loads of writing and posting to catch up on.

Did some work on some Zoho stuff today.  I’m liking their products and free for up to twenty five users for email is pretty nifty.

Watson said today that because of his new job that he is not going to be able to go to SpiceWorld this year.  He has not missed it in a while.  But he just started with the new job and has to be there.  It’s only been a week or so.

We took the girls to go get frozen yoghurt today.  They love outings to get froyo.

We have a party at the house this evening, so a lot of the day was spent cleaning and getting things ready.

Good sized party at the house tonight.  Maybe fifteen or twenty people and went all night.