New Book - A Vist to Dad's

Just thought I'd give you another sample from the third book. I hope you like it. I've got two more chapters or sections to write then I'll go back through it and flesh it up a bit. As I'm doing it I may rearrange it a little bit as some of the sections are a little too tame.

The bear reared up on its hind legs and growled at them. Curtis told Connie not to move. The bear would chase them if they ran. The bear continued to stand on his hind legs and growled. Connie and Curtis stood where they were and watched the bear. They didn’t know what to do.
“Connie, hand me the string of fish. Do it slowly,” Curtis whispered.
“Here,” Connie said as she placed the string in Curtis left hand he had stretched back to her. When he got the string of fish, he slowly pulled it up where he could hold the string just a little ways above the fish with his right hand.
“If this works we’re going to turn around and climb up on top of one of these big rocks. Be ready when I say go,” Curtis said.
Curtis, without making too quick of a motion, flung the fish at the bear. The bear caught them in his mouth. At the very same moment, that the bear caught the fish, Cosmic Cat leapt off a tall rock beside the bear and landed on the bear’s head. The bear let out a tremendous roar, lowered his front paws to the ground and ran forward over Curtis and Connie with Cosmic Cat still on his head.

A Visit to Dad's

I thought that I'd start giving some short blups from the new book, "A Visit to Dad's, The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat." As those of you that are following my work you know that this is the third book in the adventures. It may end up being called, "The Logging Camp." I'm not sure yet.

“Lunch will be in an hour or so,” Mom said. “Our clothes are together and washing. You all need to go outside and check the place over. Look around and make certain everything is in good shape—if you find something needs to be fixed or repaired do whatever needs to be done to correct it. Don’t leave anything to do later. While you’re at it make certain that all of the animals are in good condition, and ride Speckles. You’ve all been ignoring the horse for too long.”
They spent the rest of the day scurrying around and trying to decide what they could bring, staying out of Mom’s way when they could, and doing things Mom wanted done when they couldn’t. The kids each started to accumulate a pile of stuff that would prevent the other kids from taking anything. It took most of the day for them to decide what they absolutely had to have. This followed a lot of input from Mom, not always welcome, before they managed to reduce their piles to a reasonable size. When they had winnowed it down to what each of them thought was the bare minimum, Mom stepped in and pulled some things out to make room for their clothes. Only Connie and, with her help, Curtis had added more than the bare minimum of clothes to their pile.