Saying bye-bye to my little Stewie today!!  He, his mom, brother, and our old Arabian Jake, are moving to Mesa Vista Therapeutic Riding Center near Richmond.  Trooper is heading off to Richmond too, but my sister-in-law will keep him until we come back to the states.

Just found out there is a riding stable 20 minutes from the base at Iwakuni so I guess I won't go horse crazy after all when we move over there!!  That's a good thing.  But seeing all my horses go, especially Jake, who I've had for 13 years, and Sassy, who I've had for 10, is hard.  But they're going to a good home.

The dogs go next, down to my sister-in-laws, after we get Shatzi spayed.  They'll leave in a couple of weeks, right before my surgery.  Then, all we have left to do is finish packing and sell the house!! (or rent, if we decide to do that.)

Anyway, onto funner notes: we had an AWESOME time at OTR with all our caving buddies.  The weather was beautiful, the creek nice and cool, and we all got horribly sunburned, had hardly any sleep, and are all now sick with colds and flus, but it was well worth it!!  Woohoo!!  I guess it felt extra-special because we knew it might be our last for a couple of years.