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Saying goodbye to the dogs
Oct. 6th, 2025 16:26Our travel is a total of four days, three nights. We have to board the dogs for a week. Not fair to us or them but we're leaving at such an early hour and coming back too late and then there's Sunday. So we have to take them tomorrow and can't pick them up until Monday.
Not at all happy about that. It will sharpen our minds about getting ready to leave but still.
Matt, number two son, is all packed up and has his stuff at the office. I think he's leaving early tomorrow morning from Des Moines to head to Providence. The bachelor party is in Providence. I am not (NOT!!!) invited. There's ax throwing and such stuff. I told him not to throw an ax at his big brother. There has to be some boundaries. He said he'd try not to.
We are hopefully on the 7AM out of Austin and will be in Hartford early afternoon. Then driving north through the back roads of Massachusetts. We have nothing on the schedule Wednesday and no one will be there yet so just downtown Northampton and us. And, yeah, it is going to be chilly.
Thursday morning we have two massages scheduled in the morning. And then late afternoon everyone arrives. The hotel is really a wedding destination kind of place so it should be good for meeting up with the others.
I've not met the bride and haven't seen my granddaughters since they were both very young. Weirdness will be the name of the day.
Rehearsal and the dinner and then next day wedding. And reception.
And the next day we leave fairly early in the morning.
I'd love to stay another day but it was going to cost in excess of $600 to do that. We're stressing a bit over the money as it is and will need to buckle down and budget for six or so months to recoup.
I just connected with the inlaws so we're going to meet them Wednesday afternoon. Train's on the track now.
Not at all happy about that. It will sharpen our minds about getting ready to leave but still.
Matt, number two son, is all packed up and has his stuff at the office. I think he's leaving early tomorrow morning from Des Moines to head to Providence. The bachelor party is in Providence. I am not (NOT!!!) invited. There's ax throwing and such stuff. I told him not to throw an ax at his big brother. There has to be some boundaries. He said he'd try not to.
We are hopefully on the 7AM out of Austin and will be in Hartford early afternoon. Then driving north through the back roads of Massachusetts. We have nothing on the schedule Wednesday and no one will be there yet so just downtown Northampton and us. And, yeah, it is going to be chilly.
Thursday morning we have two massages scheduled in the morning. And then late afternoon everyone arrives. The hotel is really a wedding destination kind of place so it should be good for meeting up with the others.
I've not met the bride and haven't seen my granddaughters since they were both very young. Weirdness will be the name of the day.
Rehearsal and the dinner and then next day wedding. And reception.
And the next day we leave fairly early in the morning.
I'd love to stay another day but it was going to cost in excess of $600 to do that. We're stressing a bit over the money as it is and will need to buckle down and budget for six or so months to recoup.
I just connected with the inlaws so we're going to meet them Wednesday afternoon. Train's on the track now.