Doing Research For A Book Is Probably As Much Fun As The Book!

I find myself looking forward to seeing what I find out next about the time and place of the story I've got in the works! 

Loving history in general, it's no hardship for me at ALL to dig into what was going on where at a given time. 

And the stuff I find out ... !  Details that you would never expect to be able to know - not about my story's characters specifically of course, as they're totally fictional, but about what their lives were probably like, and the general area of the story, how it's changed in the interim between the story and now (LOTS); the foods they would have been eating, the clothes they would have been wearing, the things they would have spent their days doing ... it's just plain FUN!