Sheep Guarding Llama

Wednesday. This morning Dominica and Madeline landed in Dublin. Madeline has now, for the first time, seen another country.

It was a quiet morning on MangoLassi. I had conference calls much of the morning, so that tied me up. The conference was a single call that went on close to four hours.

Once lunch time rolled around, Paul and I made a trip up to The Colony to go to Rockfish. It was Paul’s first time going there. But he liked it. The food, as always, was excellent.

Tuesday. Today is the big day for Dominica and Madeline, they leave Frankfort to drive down to Newburg to catch their Norwegian flight to Dublin to begin their month long Ireland and United Kingdom adventure.

Lots of work again today. Then for lunch it was crackers with tuna salad.

I was so tired from all of the work that I have been doing that I ended up power napping from mid-afternoon until after ten.

Around five, Dominica and Madeline headed out to the airport. They will be in Ireland in the morning.

Tonight I tried to get Chinese take out, but they closed before I could place the order. One of the problems in Texas is that everything closes so early. It is such a sleepy place.

Since my schedule is all messed up, I grabbed some wine and started some PBX engineering work at midnight.

The girls made their flight. We will hear from them in the morning.

Monday. This was a busy morning, I was head down putting out fires at work until nearly noon. No other news today. The girls got to Frankfort. Dominica and Madeline head off to Europe tomorrow.

Sunday. Today I am working on site for a customer and put in a ten hour day there! I had scheduled this for when the family was away because it was a perfect use of the time. With the family not at home, I might as well do all of the “out of the house” work that I can. It was a tiring day, though.

I was home around ten in the evening, and worked from home till late. Lots to be done.

Saturday. Now that I am home alone, it is time for me to start eating all of the food in the fridge that Dominica has abandoned that I was not allowed to eat while she was here because it was hers, but now is going to go bad quickly because she has been hoarding it for so long.

Being alone, my writing for much of June is going to be even more sparse than before. I tried very hard for the next several weeks to just focus on work and get a lot done to make use of the valuable quiet and alone time.

It’s always good for me the first few days of the family being gone. But this is a seriously extended period of time with everyone gone. I’m going to be really missing them very soon.