Today I got a Christmas card from my Michigan friends, Annie and Frannie, and it had their picture on it and I was glad they looked just the same as before. They wrote inside that my dad paid them one dollar EACH to walk his dog that used to be our dog and has the name of Ellie May. I used to walk her for free and I wish I still could but I am a little glad that we left her in Ann Arbor because my dad needs the company, I think. I am bugging my mom for a new dog for here and I told her I would take care of him every minute but she said I have to go to school and she has to go to work and it wouldn't be fair to leave a puppy alone all day. I say no guinea pig and no dog is no fair.