Jessie and I went for a short walk the other day, just to get out of the house. We hadn’t gone too far, though, when a jogger past us… then came back, looking over his shoulder and saying “I just saw a big black bear crossing the road!”

We turned around.

On our way back, we ran into three of our friends, all named Tom. Then we saw a car pulling into our driveway, and it turned out to be some friends of ours who live a half hour away and were in the area as part of a search team for a missing man from their church (who was later found). It just goes to show that you don’t have to go far from home for things to get interesting…