A northern California family’s pet donkey ran off five years ago and never came back.  Now they’ve found him living with a herd of elk.  And he seems happy, so they decided to let him live out the rest of his days with the elk.  They say it’s just nice to know he’s okay, and that he’s “living his best life.”…………. A kite surfer recently got stranded on a cliffside beach near San Jose, California, and got rescued after using rocks to spell out the word “HELP” in the sand.  Someone in a helicopter spotted him and called it in……. 

105-year-old Virginia Hislop just got her master’s from Stanford 83 years late.  She finished all her classes back in 1941, but never finished her senior thesis because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.  She married her husband before he went off to war, then focused on her family.  Some of them were there on Sunday to see her walk across the stage with her cane.  She has two kids, four grandkids, and nine great-grandkids. Stanford doesn’t have a thesis requirement for a Master of Arts degree anymore, so they decided she deserved her diploma.