Thirtysomething skater Brent Andrews/Chronic Discontent is a regular and welcome commenter at Huckleberries Online -- and a former Coeur d'Alene Press reporter. Here, you see him doing his thing at a skateboard park in Franklin, Tenn.

*Put yer hands together for Dr. Jim Winter, the newest member of the North Idaho blogosphere, who writes the CastMD blog re "mostly health news related, but contains the magical, mystical, and provides commentary on challenges like "grass field burning," photoeditorials from my collection including the recent "anti-Bush, anti-gov 24 hour rally" in SF, and other fascinating concepts of the region." Today, Dr. Jim opines on the need to fire college basketball coach Bobby Knight here.

*Mari/Dogwalk Musings has an interesting post about the interlopers who are guilty of driveby posting on a single subject (think Tinfoilers of the Amara-Mitchell days) and then disappear here.

*Sue Turner/Tumblewords is halfway through her 50,000-word novel challenge here and sez goodbye to a friend who was collaborating with her on a murder mystery here.

*Kale/Un-Muted Mumblings applauds the Republicans for returning to their base by selecting minority leaders who have a pro-life voting record, with this post here.

*As he waits for his little house in Coeur d'Alene to sell, so he can chase a dream elsewhere, CODADave/Atmospheric Ruminations pens "The Real Estate Blues" here.

Meanwhile, Bayview Herb enjoys the infighting among congressional Demos here, Mommy Dearest finally has a home where she can hang curtains here, Councilman Mike posts for the first time in 18 days -- about leaves here, Costco and the Schwanns man help the Loves prepare for Thanksgiving here, and Toad leaves us hanging as he prepares to visit family in Texas here.

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