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I decided we were gonna have to dip into the other bag of gummy worms to make the scene work. But when I opened the door to the laundry room, I got a nasty surprise. I was trying to figure out what to do with the pig when I heard Rowley screaming in the kitchen. So I ran out to see what was wrong.

A bunch of geese were going to TOWN on our gummy worms, so I opened the door to try to scare them off. But they wouldn't budge. Once the geese finished off the gummy worms, they wanted MORE. I closed the door, and me and Rowley hid under the kitchen table to try to figure out our next move.

I told Rowley the only thing geese are scared of are other ANIMALS. But before I could say another word, Rowley was at the window with Manny's See-and-Talk. PULL PULL PULL PULL DOG DOG DOG DOG Now the geese were pecking at the windows, and I was scared that if we didn't do something, they might actually break IN. That's when I remembered that the last time Rodrick went trick-or-treating, he wore this awful wolf mask, which was still down in the basement.

I figured if ANYTHING was gonna scare these geese off, it was THAT. Me and Rowley ran down to the furnace room to find the mask. The old Halloween costumes were in a box on the fourth shelf, so it was a two-man job to get it down. I got up on Rowley's shoulders and reached for the box, but when I DID I knocked a snow globe off the shelf. And when THAT happened, the WITCH went off. CACKLE CACKLE CACKLE CACKLE CACKLE

I grabbed on to the shelf, and the whole storage unit came crashing down. When the dust settled, we were both lucky to be ALIVE. Once Rowley got free, he shot out of the basement so fast, I think he might've actually taken the stairs FOUR at a time. And once he got out of the house, Rowley didn't STOP. He climbed halfway up the big tree on the side of the house, and that's where I found him, babbling nonsense. I tried to talk him into coming down, but he wouldn't budge. So I got a tennis racket and some balls and tried to KNOCK him down, but that only made him climb HIGHER.

Unfortunately for me, that's the moment Dad came home. Wednesday It's been a pretty crazy couple of weeks since me and Rowley made our movie. I've been too busy to keep up with my journal, because Dad has had me working in the furnace room every night sorting through all the stuff that fell off the shelves.