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Wild Card/Sunday — 2/22/09

Feb. 21, 2009 11:40 p.m. • 21 comments

Basketball lovers in the HBO blogosphere had to love Saturday. The Coeur d’Alene High girls’ basketball team defended its 5A state championship by beating the state’s only other unbeaten team, Centennial, 54-50 in overtime. Washington State won for only the second time in UCLA’s Pauley Pavillion, 82-81. For good measure, Gonzaga clinched another undisputed league championship by crushing Pepperdine and Idaho even its record at 13-13 overall with its 3rd win in a row. You can see all the game summaries below. Meanwhile, an arrest is near in the Chandra Levy case here. The NAACP is calling for the firing of the New York Post cartoonist who drew the chimp cartoon here. Obama is attempting to cut the deficit in half in four years by raising taxes on the rich and cutting military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan here. And, as I play this Wild Card, you can add me to the growing number of fans who want “Slumdog Millionaire” to win the Oscar for best motion picture tonight. My wife and I saw “Slumdog” Saturday night. Two big thumbs up …

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Bent on February 22 at 11:25 a.m.
Sheesh, this blog has been slow this weekend. I keep checking in …hoping I’ll stumble in on a conversation, but nothing doing I see.

Just as well, I guess. I need to get a few things done today, anyway…

/cue the crickets…
Bent on February 22 at 12:01 p.m.
BTW, Joan, my wife is considering a booth at the Farmers Market this year. I know you do that, so could you suggest a contact person to check and see if there are any booths available? If anyone else has a contact, please let me know…
JohnA on February 22 at 12:57 p.m.
Here’s a conversation for you, Bent. Is there a more beautiful place than north Idaho on a sunny Saturday? I’ve been in 45 states and I’d have to say it would be hard to beat.

We went boating on a windless, sunsplashed day yesterday, the earliest I’ve been out in many years. With only five other boats out there, it was like we all of Lake Coeur d’Alene to ourselves. One of the five was actually our houseboating friends from CDA that we chanced upon off Tubbs Hill. We had a great float together in the middle of the lake, catching up on life since last fall.

The azure-blue skies highlighting the snowcapped peaks beyond was ever reflective on the calm waters. Equally beyond description were the huge new mansions springing up on the north end. Recession? What recession?

Not to be outdone by Hagadone’s newest creation on Casco Bay, a large addition to the house on the old Honeysuckle Beach near Moscow Bay was stunning. It makes Duane’s place look small by comparison, but of course his isn’t finished yet. I guess we’ll have to check back later in the spring.

Coeur d’Alene Lake. Abosolutely the finest place to be in the greatest place to live.
Cindy_H on February 22 at 1:30 p.m.
I’ve been sequestered in my basement office on deadline all weekend. Thanks for letting me know what I’m missing :-(
*Sob*
florined on February 22 at 1:31 p.m.
Bent, WHICH market? The one up on 95 and Prairie? Of Liberty Lake? or Spokane?
Bent on February 22 at 4:11 p.m.
Yes John, I bet it was nice. I spent most of today walking on the rocks along the Spokane River with my two bird dogs. It was a nice windless day and fairly warm despite the clouds.

I spent my sunny Saturday with my wife and her father putting the finishing touches on her new greenhouse. It was a pleasant 70+ degrees in there all day. Wait until you get a load of my carrpots this year ;-)

That’s why we are looking for the farmers market info. Florine, I think we are just looking at the Hayden market on 95 & Prairie, but if they don’t have space, we would consider Liberty Lake…
Stickman on February 22 at 4:12 p.m.
John is right, no place better. I had over 40 visitors today, I was in heaven in a sense.
Stickman on February 22 at 5:43 p.m.
Plus, a very special visit from Jesse Tingsley and his family, I hadn’t seen him in over a year. The people on this blog make it what it is, and he is one of those very special ones. Thanks Jesse, for coming by and letting me meet your family. Made my day. ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’.
JamesBond on February 22 at 6:27 p.m.
For most of the weekend, I’ve been haunted by my childhood memories of Sleestacks. These foul creatures move slow, but they keep moving, they hold their arms out towards you, and they have big, shiny eyeballs. When I saw the preview for the new Land of the Lost movie by Will Ferrel, it caused this repressed childhood fear to rear its ugly head. Last night, I was afraid because I thought Sleestacks might be hiding in our bathroom or closet. Damn things!!!!
florined on February 23 at 10:17 a.m.
Bent, call 772-2290. I think that’s the market’s manager’s number. They have a planning meeting coming up pretty soon, so I’d suggest calling right away.
Bent on February 23 at 3:12 p.m.
Thanks Florine…

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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.