I did spend most of the morning watching the situation in Ottawa unfold. Worked on some bowling stuff. Sorted through a bunch of old papers, burnt some, recycled the rest. Phoned the cc companies re travel plans. Added a few pages to Forks in the Trail. I'll get it done some day!watched a Netflix movie and to bed at 10.

CHAPTER 7

 

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o once again we packed up and just to be sure I dragged my bed out of the corner and over to the door. This time the move was done over several days, as Senior took some things on his boat and the rest was made ready to pile into the truck we would be using.

  Colonel had been half staying with us for a few days as Grandma was away on a trip. He didn’t know anything about moving so we guessed that when she got back they would just stay where they were. This time we were wrong, Grandma came back the day before we loaded the truck and the word was that she and Colonel were moving to “The Island”.  I figured that it must be very close to Irvine’s Landing as did Colonel. We couldn’t have been more wrong.  I never did figure out where “The Island” was but a few days after we moved Grandma and Colonel stayed over night with us then got on the big steel boat. I never saw either of them again.

  It didn’t take long to get the lay of the land, John already knew other kids in the area. One, his name was Billy, was his best friend after me. I liked him too, a dog lived at his house but she was quite old and slept almost all the time. She used to grumble a bit when I cleaned up the leftovers in her supper dish but I don’t think she really meant anything and I did understand that I was sort of trespassing.  There were some other kids just a little further than Billy’s house and they all used to play together. One game I liked was called ‘hide n seek’; I was really good at the seeking part and would often help find John. For some reason this annoyed him and sometimes he would take me home and leave me with Mom.

  I quickly found out that I could now go to school when John went, the first couple of times I managed to get right into the school but the lady who was the boss there took exception to my visits. I ended up being tied for a little while in the mornings, but no problem, once I was loose I just went up the hill and hung around outside. I stopped trying to get inside though.

  Maybe because during the day I was a bit lonely I took to doing a bit of exploring and once again I found deer living nearby. Oh what fun I had, I knew I could never catch one, but they were bigger than me and they were obviously afraid. Once I got on the trail of one I just couldn’t quit. I would chase them for hours, if I got too tired, I would have a little snooze and go at it again. Once I kept at it for two days, by then I was hungry and worn out. I had to backtrack myself in order to find my way home.