So Bennie, Eric and the kids insisted on making a Belgian dish tonight for dinner, so we went out this morning and got groceries from the local Wal-Mart (I also made sure that Bennie and crew leave town with a bottle of Short Sugar’s barbecue sauce). Dinner was stuffed peppers, some kind of neatly cooked stuffed tomato which defies easy description, and potatoes and it was all awesomely delicious!!

But around 3:30 this afternoon, Eric went for a walk. And didn’t come back.

Long story short, we had to call 911 and have Rockingham County Sheriff’s Department look for him. A short while later a deputy that I’ve known for many years pulled into my driveway and said that he’d found Eric walking further up the road…

Turned out that the dude went for a walk awright. He walked more than five miles east through the woods, then hiked down ...