Newby CODADave/Atmospheric Ruminations takes us in his Wayback Machine to the Portal Inn (above), the old Templin's restaurant in Coeur d'Alene and the Shady Rest restaurant here.

Put your hands together for Bubblehead, a Friends of Huckleberries blogger from Boise, who hit the big time with a mention in Michelle Malkin's blog here. Hat Tip: Bearable Bob.

*Katrina/Notes on a Napkin is still trying to lose the 10 pounds that she's lugged around for as long as she can remember here. I'd guess she's not the only one with a few extra pounds that refuse to go.

*Begins JBelle/The 'Kan EWA: "I'm sad. I'm sad, sad, sad. I've got friends with a marriage in trouble and I have to come to grips with how it is when you can't fix what somehow has jumped the tracks. I can't fix it; I'd give just about anything to do just that. I've cried, I' ve paced, I've remembered, recalled; connected the dots on so many things that were innocently random before." Click here.

*Mommy Dearest admits that she and The Otis are "Christmas Ruiners" -- you know, the type of individuals who can't wait until Christmas, so they keep opening gifts from each other until there's nothing left under the tree here.

*Kristin Hoppe/Not So Fast announced Nov. 10 that there's 10 shopping days until her birthday. Could it be that Krisin and I share the same birthday, Nov. 20, albeit a few years apart?

*Marianne Love/Slight Detour is wondering what happened to fairness and good reporting as she reads her local newspapers here, and she's wondering if her new home might be haunted here.

Meanwhile, Mari's wondering who knocked down her fence here, Trish offers a link to the new issue of The River Journal here, Sue offers the haunting poem, "Once In November" here, Bearable Bob sez Bush 43 discovered that Bush 41 really was his daddy here, Idawa's been in such a funk that he hasn't notice he posted the same thing three times here, and Toad has negative reinforcement on his mind here.

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