Sheep Guarding Llama

A quiet Sunday morning at dad’s.  We were pretty relaxed and took it easy.   Our plan was to to down to Aunt Sharon and Uncle Leo’s this afternoon so that the girls could play with the cats.  I ended up having a very busy day of working on the phone for several hours today that were unexpected, which interrupted our schedules quite a bit.

Around six we went to Sharon and Leo’s and got about an hour there before we all went to the Charcoal Corral for dinner and met up with dad who had been at church.  Dominica and I both got salmon burgers for dinner and they were delicious.

After dinner it was just the four of us, Dominica, Liesl, Luciana and me, watching the movies at the drive in.  We saw The Secret Life of Pets first which was pretty boring and not at all worth sitting through.  The first five minutes were cute and funny, but that five minutes is what was shown in previews months ago and I had already seen it more than once.  Literally the preview was just the beginning of the actual movie, as shown.  And once that was over, the cute and funny movie was done and the boring crap was all that was left.

After that we saw the live action “Legend of Tarzan” which at the very least was not the old story retold but a bit of a different take on it, but still totally uninteresting and banal.  I really wanted to sleep through both movies, but was unable to fall asleep.  Luciana did climb into my lap and fall asleep during the second movie, though.  She slept so thoroughly that the next day she did not even remember that there had been a second movie!

Saturday at dad’s place.  The weather was not so hot today, but still no rain.  It is very dry this summer in New York.  I slept in a lot today, according to my Apple Watch, getting just over nine hours of restful sleep!  I must have been really exhausted.

We had an early breakfast or late lunch at eleven, veggie burgers on the grill.  Then it was just a little relaxing at the house until at a quarter till three we needed to be on our way to Rochester to meet up with the family for a big dinner at Red Lobster.

The girls have been asking to go to Red Lobster with grandpa for months.  And every day since getting back to New York they have been mentioning it.  Dinner was at four with Aunt Sharon and Uncle Leo, my cousin Sara and her fiancee Jen and, of course, Dominica, Liesl, Luciana, dad and me.

After dinner we drove to a park in Chili with a great playground and the girls played for about two hours.  They had an awesome time and played with all kinds of kids.  It was a really good time to go to the playground.

After the playground we all felt like Abbott’s frozen custard, which is actually what we had been hunting for when we found the playground in the first place, so we drove all over until we found one, ate and then were off to home.

It is Friday in Peoria out on dad’s farm.  I’ve been very, very far behind on SGL updates and today is just one of those lost days.  We know that we drove out last night and that I spent the day working out of dad’s office to get writing and posting done.

Our last morning in Frankfort, again.  Dominica made a big breakfast this morning.  We have a lot to do today.

The first task of the morning is Dominica taking Liesl back to Herkimer to see the dentist again. She needed to get her last cavity filled while we were still in town.

This afternoon we were back in the car after Liesl’s dentist appointment and drove out to dad’s house where we will be for a while until we head down to Texas.

We got up around five this morning to see the Grices off as they loaded up into the Ford Explorer and set off of their drive to Texas. Even Luciana got up to see them off.  Liesl slept through it all.  Francesca and the crew were underway by ten minutes to six in the morning.

Since we were already awake we just got up even though it was a short night for us.

I did a lot of work getting the platform for MangoLassi updated today.  It was handy being up so early in the morning.

I did a ton of email clean up today.  This year has gotten me pretty far behind.

Luciana and I played some Minecraft together today.  We rarely get time to do that.