Further Travels with Dusty and Sandy

Moving right along....

You may remember that I had the first sleeve finished except for the cuff when I discovered that I was supposed to switch to the border pattern at the bottom of the sleeves. Oops! Well, I'm back on track.

Our visit with our daughter's family went well. We were sleeping in the house. The Pod was parked in front the whole time. It was a busy week, between band camp for Daphne and dance sessions for both kids. Whenever anyone left the house, the dogs would run to the front window to watch the car pull out of the drive or the person walk off down the street.

We had lots of fun throwing the ball for the dogs in the backyard. Daphne and Zachary learned how to pick up dog poops.

We played games in the evening, including Clue and Screw Your Neighbor (a card game similar to Uno).

A big event had to wait until we left, but we got a head start while we were there. Since the passing of Fluffy a few months ago, the family has planned on giving another kitty a home. The Humane Society had an adopt-a-thon while we were there. On Friday we went to look at what was available and put in a request for a kitten with our choices for first through third.

They had a nice selection of very cute kittens. The organization takes a couple of days to check out the information on the form we filled out, to make sure this would be a permanent home.

The adoption fee was reduced. It includes shots and spaying or neutering, so it's a good deal.

We're still waiting to hear which kitty the family will get. The timing is working out well. We all thought it might be better for the kitty to come into a home without dogs he/she won't be living with.

I wonder who it will be....

Saturday was the Holmen Kornfest Parade. Daphne was performing with her school's marching band and Zachary was marching with their dance academy as a group. (Look for the first dark-haired person in the middle.)

It was fun, but a challenge getting a parking place to leave Zachary off and pick him up. Daphne rode the bus with the band.

Now we're headed to our older son's home in Indianapolis.

During our visit, David and I went over the first draft of the manuscript for my new book. I'm hoping to have it ready to submit for publication soon.

The travels continue.

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If you have a few minutes and are willing, please go to Amazon and B&N and search for "Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook by Peggy Stuart". Every click on the page for the book makes it more likely they will keep a good supply in their warehouse and stores. If you are outside the US, you may have a separate website for these retailers. If you have a copy of any of our books, including Emil, Mariah or Classic Tales Retold, please leave an honest review on the websites, especially if you bought from them.

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What's on my needles: Still working on the Oregon Cardigan.

What's on my loom: Still in its corner under the windows.

What's on my sewing machine: Still its dust cover.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: In Sharing a Cookie, the dolls need to figure out fractions. 

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Still listening to On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci for my personal listening. Still listening to All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr while traveling.

What's in my wine glass: Yellowtail Shiraz 2021, sharing with the family, so a big bottle.

What's my tip of the week: Easy breakfast: Equal parts rolled oats and milk (dairy or non) 1/4 apple, chopped, 1/2 t cinnamon mixed together in a jar and left in the fridge overnight. Eat chilled or heated up in the microwave the next morning.

Where are my books: The stories in each book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with a few changes. 

Our Favorite Verses: Poems from The Doll's Storybook is available from the BookBabyBookshop and other booksellers worldwide. Poems included are Valentine's Day, Keeping Pets, Back to School, Victor the Vulture, The Week Before Christmas, Insomnia and Veronika's Vocabulary Verses.

The stories in Classic Tales Retold: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are Little Green Greatcoat, The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf and Lost in the Woods.

Emil: Stories from The Doll's Storybook and Mariah: Stories from The Doll's Storybook are also still available from booksellers. The link for Book Baby is here. The three stories in Emil are Best Buds, Getting What You Want, and The Boys Cook Dinner.

The three stories in Mariah are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy from the BookBabyBookshop, because 50% of the price goes to St. Jude. Other booksellers pay much less. 

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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