Pilot Art's Dog

This is the lovable golden retriever that belongs to Art, who flew us in a light plane from Beaver to Fairbanks, Alaska.

Highlights of a Branson Trip

We spent 2 nights at Big Cedar Lodge this week, a gift from our adopted kids, Tim and Robin Gardiner. We combined it with a press pass to Silver Dollar City and the Showboat Branson Belle. These last two are owned by the Herschends, some wonderful Christian people about whom I wrote one of my favorite stories. Read the TPE Silver Dollar City article. Here is my first TPE Blog entry about it.

Green-backed heron at Big Cedar. We saw lots of these, more than we've ever seen in close proximity.
The tall guy at Silver Dollar City (he's on the left).
A Big Cedar restaurant at which we ate.
Peg with Todd Oliver, and Irving (right) and Lucy, the talking dogs, aboard the Showboat Branson Belle.

Unleashed Pit Bull

Just returned from my evening walk and had an unwelcome encounter. Passed a lady going the other way who was trailed by an unleashed pit bull. He was massive; he looked like the hound of the Baskervilles. I once wrote a column for TPE about inconsiderate people who don't leash their dogs. (I'll try to find it to post.) But those were good-natured golden retrievers that just got me muddy when they jumped on me. This pit bull could've done serious damage. I'm sure she thinks he's a puppy dog, but it's just wrong for people to be so callous. And it's breaking the law.