For those of you who have read this blog before, you may have been wondering why a) I haven't been writing, and b) why there was a blog in July entitled " Following Directions, part 1 ," and there has been no part two. In reference to question a) the grade schoolers are sucking the very life from my veins, and in reference to question 2) here you go. HA! Caught you! Pay attention! That was supposed to be b), not 2). Now, being Foreign, my family has always had a strange relationship with our pets, such as eating them in a stew, for example, as was the case with our pet bunnies when I was a wee lass back in the old country. Needless to say, it was quite devastating and I have spent years trying to make up for this by being a Friend to Rabbits. You may remember the epic beginning of my relationship with Ernesto . I'm sad to say things did not improve from there on out. After our hot date to a hospital in a cornfield, we decided to stick to a hee-haw theme b