And speaking of dogs (trust me, non-registered users, I was just speaking of dogs), here’s a shot of me, my mom, my brother, and our first dog, Zipper, taken sometime around…oh boy…uh, ’77?
Zipper got her name from being really fast. She’d zip all over our back yard and hop the short fence between our property and the creekside behind our house. Even in this picture it appears we’re trying to restrain her from taking off, as if she’d blast away from us if we were to loosen our grip even for a second.