Sadie was found!

Dear Neighbor,

At 5:05 pm,Sadie, our friend Pam's little five pound Yorkie mix, was finally found! To be more accurate, Sadie found us. She had worked her way up to Avenida Vista Grande and wandered onto Rt 285 (3+miles). Traffic stopped, Sadie ran under a car, and it took six motorists to coax her out. After going missing for eight hours, she was frightened, hungry, and dehydrated, but is now happily reunited with her mom.

Now, here's the part of this saga I find especially touching. Throughout the day, as we looked for Sadie, Carole and Pam and I kept finding community members out looking for her also. People we'd never met were on foot, on horseback, driving slowly with their emergency flashers on, combing the streets, knocking on doors, all searching for a tiny lost dog they'd never met, who belonged to a women they'd never met. I think that kind of community spirit and involvement is a special part of living here, and I am enormously grateful for everybody who pitched in. And, of course, so is Sadie. Thank you all very, very much.

Jim