Episode 4 Bonus Content

Doesn't she look thrilled to be spending time with me? This is the only photo of me with my mother as a baby.

This is my step-grandfather, Bob. The back of the photo is dated 11/84 and his birthday was in October so I'm guessing that's the occasion. Those mushroom curtains!

I think the box says "kabob set" but I can't tell. On the back of this photo my grandmother wrote "Bob and his Conway hairdo", I guess because he was getting his hair permed back in those days.

This was Lady, the dog my grandmother had in the front seat one afternoon when she picked me up from kindergarten. I loved that dog so much! She would let me put her in my baby stroller and push her around.

One of my favorite photos of Lady. It's kinda blurry but I like that she's in front of the vines that grew on the fence in the back yard.

This was the first orange cat we had - Charlie. I can't even remember now where he came from but he was a good cat. He was only outside and sadly passed away from being in the engine of my grandmother's car.

This is second Charlie, the orange cat we got from a cat hoarder situation. He was more fleas than cat when he came home with us. He was indoor some but outside too.

This was sometime in 1991/1992 on the trip with my mother and her step-brother-in-law, BJ. I was chaperoning, I guess you could call it, not that I was able to stop much of this trainwreck when I was 11.

If memory serves, BJ climbed over or around to take this photo at Chimney Rock.

This was Jake shortly after we got him back from the vet. In the podcast I talked about how this was the dog we stole from one of my grandmother's student's yard. He was such a good dog.

He might have been a bag of bones when we got him, but he grew to be a pretty intimidating-looking doberman.

These three were something else! Maybe a year or so after we got Jake, my grandmother brought home this pug mix. I named her Marsupilami after a cartoon, but we mostly called her Marcy.