Marianne Mueller lives with "the Pets" in a small town in northern Wisconsin just south of Lake Superior. She loves telling stories when she is not teaching Language Arts to Middle Schoolers or writing her monthly gardening articles for two local newspapers. The Pets she writes about are real personalities and belong to her family, either currently or in the past. The stories that Grandpa Thor tells are embellishments of actual events in the lives of her family. We all know how much old souls like to stretch the truth, don't we?