An Announcement . . .Then Puppies

I'm not sure if I've mentioned yet that my mom is from New Orleans. Do you maybe recall a passing reference to that once or twice? Or, like, a dozen times. Whatever. And my grandmother, Duchess, still lives in New Orleans. But only for five more days. She's moving to Tucson to be nearer to my family. My mom is going to fly to Tucson with her, and my dad is going to drive the truck with all her stuff from New Orleans to Tucson. However, my dad did not particularly want to drive a U-Haul for three days cross-country by himself. Now who does he know who has no job, a strong back, and a week's free time to help him move furniture and drive? Hmmm, whowhowhowho . . . Oh, right. Me.

So, Going Country is going on a road trip! Wheee! I will be flying to New Orleans on Thursday to meet up with my parents. And because I am going to be in New Orleans with my parents (and my grandmother), I will not be getting sloppy drunk in the French Quarter, which is the traditional past time for tourists in New Orleans. No, instead I'll be hanging with the old folks (hi, Dad!) and moving furniture. Do I know how to have a good time or WHAT? My dad and I will split town on Saturday morning and drive for the next three days, arriving in Tucson on Monday. Then we'll move Duchess into her new place, I'll spend a few days having some Forced Family Fun with my parents, my sister, my brother, and my niece, and THEN . . . A. arrives! YAY! This just gets better and better.

Yes, due to some kind of alignment of the stars or divine intervention or something, A. managed to take an entire week off of work. So he'll be joining me in Tucson. We'll make my parents' house our homebase and from there take a bunch of little trips all over Arizona.

So, in sum, I will be leaving Blackrock for two whole weeks. I KNOW. And there are puppies here! And I'm planting seeds this week! And the lambs are coming soon! And I'm just LEAVING IT ALL BEHIND. Luckily, the MiL will be here to take care of everything.

Lest you worry about not having your daily dose of Kristin's Wild and Krazy Antics, I would like to reassure you that my dad has promised to bring his laptop, so wherever I can get online, I'll send an update into the ether. It may not be every day, especially during the whole furniture-moving and driving-cross-country stage, but be not afraid, duckies--I won't be abandoning you entirely for the whole two weeks. Perish the thought. AND, if the MiL can figure out the digital camera and how to e-mail me photos, I'll even post pictures of the puppies as they morph from guinea pigs into unbelievably cute balls o' fluff.

Now that we've got that news out of the way, and speaking of puppies . . .

That's just a tiny pile of ADORABLE, right there.