Dear Friends, I don't know if this made the national news or not, but two 12-year-old Pike County, Missouri boys lit out for the woods this week one day after school. They were Amish lads who live in the country near Curryville and Bowling Green. They never came home from their little country school house Tuesday. It was big news -- amber alert material and everyone was scared to death. Of course a giant search was organized, including a helicopter. Which is a pretty big deal in these parts. The boys were found late Wednesday afternoon. They were in a copse of woods -- cold, wet, and happy as a pointer in a covey of quail. The reason they had lit out? They had been reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn and decided they wanted some adventure of their own! True story. Hope everyone is with someone they love this week. Terrell Dempsey in Hannibal