Boy oh boy, when things change, they change fast.

Last week I got the incredible offer for a 36 month rotational stint in Iwakuni, Japan.  I took it.  Which means, in short, that I have to find homes for all the animals, sell the house, CLEAN OUT the house, get my surgery, recoup in the alloted time, and hop on a plane to Japan.  We plan to leave late November, early December.

So basically, everything else in my life is on hold.  We are still going out to Colorado early Sept., hope to sell some more books and see the property, but other than that, I am gung-ho on finding places for the horses and getting the house fixed up as best as I can before the surgery on the 23rd of September.  So any more book-writing, oil painting, what-have-you, is going to have to wait.

I'm scared and excited, but mostly excited.  It's a great opportunity.  We wanted to sell our house anyway and buy something else, and I kept saying I had no earthly right to have five horses when I barely rode even one, so now we have a chance to simplify our lives.  When we get to Japan, we plan to travel to as many countries as we have time for, and I plan to write a lot and paint.  It's gonna be cool.

Will write more later--right now I have some walls to paint!!