Hello friends and relatives, known and yet to be met,

We are in Solon, Ohio at Aunt Susie's and Uncle Dick Hildebrand's house where they have the most wonderful playtoy!! I am having a wonderful time and I would like to stay here for a lonnnnngggg time, because I'm not sure they have these things in Vermont and they are such fun to play with. Don't get me wrong, I'm still very fond of my bones and cookie ball, but this toy runs when you speak to it, and its hair all stands up on end, and it spits!! YES! Can you dig it? It SPITS! It's orange in color and a little bony, but Mom says that's because it's kinda old. I don't care, I love it! ( It's called a cat, and if any of you have one, please let me know because I'll come visit as often as I can.) I keep going upstairs to try and find it, but it hides in places I'm not familiar with yet. Give me time.....I'll uncover all of its hiding spots before we leave.

Mom and Aunt Susie have known each other for 55 years. They met in Junior High in Lyndhurst, Ohio. We're going to go see it, along with the elementary and high schools, and Mom's old house where she grew up, sometime this weekend. BORING....... but she wants Daddy to see her roots. Geesh, all she has to do is lean over and I can see those....

We've had a really nice trip so far and I've been a good girl..........mostly. Mom doesn't walk fast enough when we go out but I'em trying to speed her up. A girl's gotta pee when a girl's gotta pee, ya know!! We drove to Niagra Falls the first day and found a campground to stay in. It was OK, although M&P......Mom and Pop when things are going smoothly, P&M....Piss and Moan when they're not......wouldn't let me chase the chipmunks. Damn things climb trees, so weren't all that much fun anyhow. We just slept there and then went to find the falls the next morning. Once there, M&P eft me in the truck to go see the falls. They said it was really impressive, but all those seagulls would have driven me crazy, and I know one of them would have bombed me with that white junk. YUCK!

Once the falls thing was done, we drove to Solon. Mom hadn't been able to get this computer thing going, so Aunt Susie's son, Jason, helped her. He's a pretty smart dude, and nice, too......except it's his cat that I want to play with and he has some issues around that. I'll win him over. No sweat.

Aunt Susie's house is really neat. And BIG! Sooooooo much room to run! It's wonderful, really. Stairs to the upper part, a great circle around the living, dining, den, and kitchen rooms! All I have at home is this long hall, but here? Wow, you can't imagine the possibilities. And Aunt Susie and Uncle Dick don't seem to mind at all! They used to have dogs, and they miss them so I can even slobber all over them and they don't care. They're gonna make great friends. We even went out for ice cream last night after supper.......I had a little......yummy!

Mom has to go get a card for the computer today.....Jason says she really will be better off with one, so she can use it wherever she is and not worry about trying to hook onto someone else's. So, I'll sign off, until the next time.