The Last Piece of the Puzzle

This afternoon I put the last piece of the puzzle in place for my trip to France. Whew...what a good feeling that is! I had yet to arrange pet and lawn care for the month I'll be gone. I asked one neighbor thinking her college-age son might be interested in house-sitting; he goes to school in Missouri, so that didn't work. I left a message for another young man that I heard might be available for the month; he never called me back. I checked at my vet, and they would take Lucie for the month; very expensive plus I was afraid she'd come back to me a psychotic mess! Today I asked my neighbor, Laurie Jones; she and the kids said "Sure, no problem!" So Lucie will stay with them, and they'll come down a couple times a week to feed Sissy and scoop her litter box. They will also mow for me a couple of times while I'm gone. It's a paying gig, of course, even though she said they'd do it for nothing. I'm happy to pay them. So, now all I have to do is pack my suitcase...which, BTW, is already out, open and partly filled with the necessities for my month in France. I am totally psyched!