ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Anita sends me a link to this story about the odyssey of Tadpole Pete and Sassy, a toddler and pug duo who disappeared from home north of El Dorado Arkansas and wandered around for about 20 hours before being found by police. Picture this scene:

Deputies got a break Tuesday morning when a truck driver told them he had seen a dog and child cross U.S. 167 in front of his truck the afternoon before.

"I blew my horn at this little, curly tailed dog. He ran across," driver Kenny Hamilton said. "Then this little boy ran across the road after him, right there in front of me."

The next day he told deputies about the boy-and-dog pair when he realized they were the objects of a massive air-and-ground search that had so far turned up nothing.

"We refocused the search and got the tracking dogs going the other way," Jones said, and the boy was found about two hours later.