Sheep Guarding Llama

Today is our last day to do the big item moves and to get things out of the house and into the roll off dumpster before it gets taken away.  So a busy day ahead of us.

Before getting started Emily and I went to the bakery and got food for everyone.  We got donuts and half moons.  Then it was time to get to work.

Today we cleaned out the basement.  That was the last major part of the house that needed to be emptied out.  It was disgusting but went alright.  There were only a few really heavy items down there which is good because we had to bring them up some serious rickety stairs and the landing was on the verge of collapse.

The second big thing today was bringing down all of the large furniture from the upstairs.  There was a lot, an awkwardly large amount of pointless furniture stored upstairs.

It was an exhausting day.  This evening, Dominica, her dad, Madeline and I went out to the movies to see Transformers 4 which was completely awful.  No plot, horrible directing.  Really one of the worst movie franchises ever which is so sad because the cartoon was so iconic.  But nothing unexpected.

I meant to get up early this morning and get on the road but I must have been exhausted or fighting off something because I did not wake up until eleven o’clock!  So much later than I had anticipated or even thought possible.  Even when I woke up I did not feel like it could possibly be that late at all and imagined that it was actually much, much earlier.  Not good, and email was not working this morning.  So I never got any messages from Dominica saying that they had left.  I checked email and thought that they must have been running late too.

I scrambled to get ready and was out the door very quickly.  Once I was on the road I started getting emails and realized that they had left before eight this morning and were nearly to Waverly already!

I stopped at the Dunkin Donuts and gas station on the circle heading out of town towards the Bear Mountain Bridge and got “breakfast” to eat while I drove.

Almost immediately after crossing the bridge I got stuck in horrific traffic.  I sat nearly at a stand still for a full hour!  So much for ever getting out to Waverly.

Later on the weather got bad and I was caught in bad rain that slowed me down a lot too.

So the drive took a really long time.  I was very proud of myself for managing to get to the family farm without needing any directions.  It is not in an easy to find spot and I have never driven there without Dominica before.  It was late afternoon when I finally arrived.  It turns out that the Tocco clan had decided that they were not spending the night tonight like I had been informed previously, because there was so much work to be done on the house tomorrow, so they were planning on leaving around six!  I had no idea about this until I arrived.  I thought that I was running late but that it was no big deal as we were spending the night.  Nope.  Instead I got there and only had about two hours before turning around to drive up to Frankfort.

So my day ended up being one with a lot more driving than I had intended.  An hour or more extra getting to Waverly and then about four more hours getting up to Frankfort.  Almost a ten hour driving day.

Dominica rode with me in the Spark and the girls went with Francesca and their cousins.  So Dominica and I got some time to hang out on the long drive.

It was fairly late when we got out to Frankfort so nothing in the plans for us this evening.

Got into the office and it turned into an extremely short day for me. Worked until about one thirty when we got let to go home. I had a meeting at two so I stayed for a little bit to do that and then went home around two thirty. That was a lot earlier than I had expected and it was very nice.

I just spent the afternoon relaxing. No plans since I was out much earlier than I had expected. Tomorrow morning I am driving up to Waverly to celebrate the Fourth of July with the family. They are heading down there at eight in the morning.

My second day of training at the office. Spent the whole day in class again, had a good time and learned quite a bit, I think. A good use of my time.

Like yesterday I worked for several hours after being done with class and heading back home.

Today the family is at Howe Caverns near Herkimer, New York. I have not been there since I was really little and this is the first time for Liesl and Luciana. They had fun today but it wasn’t their favourite field trip ever.

What everyone that was big enough to do so (so not Luciana) loved today was the zip lining that they did at Howe Caverns. They had so much fun that Dominica is now convinced that we should go to Costa Rica and take a zip lining vacation.