I promise we are not dead. Sorry about the lack of communication on our part lately (always). Rick is currently training in California (Mohave desert, it's no vacation) for a month...of course neither of us are very thrilled about that since the Army assured us his company wasn't going but they so wonderfully changed their minds a week before.
I finally left the knife store due to some disagreements with business practices on the owner's part... like not getting out paychecks on time, shorting us hours because 'he didn't feel we really needed those hours'.
The new job is really nice, working in a bookstore in the historical part of town with a nice pay raise and an hour lunch. Joy.
We added a couple new members to our family (besides the cats, Phoebe and Sam) and we now have a pair of gerbils named Mariwhen and Gwen. It was Rik's idea to buy them... I think he wanted another Caligula. Of course there is no replacing that crazy animal but they are rather nice, as far as gerbils go.
I started riding horses again ...which I have to get to my lesson a lot sooner than I thought so I better go. Hope everyone is well.
-Kass
