Rain, sleet and snow keep pummeling Northeast Wisconsin. Kept inside, I worked on research for the next book.
When I began working on Jake Dog and the Four Cats yesterday, I realized there were going to be gaps in the story if I didn't do some research. I am helped with my habit of keeping records. First of all, I keep a daily journal. Though for some years the records were spotty, in 1984, the year we moved to this house, I became a regular journal keeper.
Today, I went inside my office closet and dug out the journals.
Then I went to the scrapbooks with pictures, newspaper articles and so on that go back to my birth.
There I found a newspaper column by Susan Manzke who helped in the move to this address in June 1984.
I still had a question. Did we get Mean Ol' Ms Baby Doll when we were in the old house or in this one? I was going to ask Chris if he remembered but it came to me this morning when I took a shower. I remembered that she arrived with a nice case of fleas. When she arrived I took her directly to the tub and gave her a bath before her fleas could escape into the living room carpet. It was painful for both of us.
I don't think she ever forgave me.
With all my records, I should have the book written by the end of summer.
When I began working on Jake Dog and the Four Cats yesterday, I realized there were going to be gaps in the story if I didn't do some research. I am helped with my habit of keeping records. First of all, I keep a daily journal. Though for some years the records were spotty, in 1984, the year we moved to this house, I became a regular journal keeper.
Today, I went inside my office closet and dug out the journals.
Then I went to the scrapbooks with pictures, newspaper articles and so on that go back to my birth.
I still had a question. Did we get Mean Ol' Ms Baby Doll when we were in the old house or in this one? I was going to ask Chris if he remembered but it came to me this morning when I took a shower. I remembered that she arrived with a nice case of fleas. When she arrived I took her directly to the tub and gave her a bath before her fleas could escape into the living room carpet. It was painful for both of us.
I don't think she ever forgave me.
With all my records, I should have the book written by the end of summer.
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