Dec. 16

We got our Christmas tree today and put the lights on. I was sick for 7 days before with flu.

I've finished Part 2 of my Staru books and will soon be done with Part 3. I need more notebooks.

I'm going to buy a buckskin Mustang as soon as I get some money. His name is Wildfire. He is going to be the fighter of the Swinging B ranch.

I've forgotten what Lori looks like, or her horses. Soon I'll forget her altogether! Oh, I hope I don't! Then I would have no best friend except Kari. I like Kari, but I refuse to let her take Lori's place. Lori is my only friend who understands me and my falcons. I have not yet revealed my hawks to Kari or anybody. It might be 8 months before I see Lori again.

If wishes were lightnings, mortals would ride.

That's a saying I made up. It's true because only Dinar and I can ride lightnings because we're immortal and have magic.

On the opposite page are my father and mother and my dog, Pure-Heart. So far I've found 2 big photos like these and I hope to find one more to send to Robin.

Pure-Heart is a Samoyed, but while we were living at Falcon Hall he had to have his neck hair slicked down, which made him look like a wolfhound and feel very miserable.

My mother's name was KB, while my father's name was CWA. Princess C is my mother's sister.

My father and mother look like Russians. We all do. I don't know why (except my sister looks Italian), because none of us even came from Earth.

Tomorrow Mom and I are going to put the ornaments and tinsel on the tree.