I finished what I consider to be the end of the beginning of my annual garden routine today: I dumped all the pruned limbs, weeds and other yard discards into the back of a pickup for a trip to the dump tomorrow. My gardening and back yard season officially begins when the first round of yard waste is hauled off and things begin to shape up. I received my first compliments of the year for the yard from friends who dropped by tonight to share a barbecue and to watch Wallace and Gromit’s “Curse of the Were Rabbit” with us tonight. I’ll make the dump run and then hit the sack early Sunday b/c I’ve got a long day planned Monday. I’ll fly to Portland Monday morning to help Amy Dearest pack and then drive with her back to Coeur d’Alene in the afternoon. So, I won’t be doing much more than posting a Wild Card for Monday. But we’ll catch up with each other again Tuesday. Now, for your Sunday Wild Card …
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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