"In the latest installment of why I love my husband," posts Councilwoman KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho, "Bert and I spent the morning in the Ronald D. Rankin Veterans Memorial Plaza at the Kootenai County Adminstration building. It had to be over 90 degrees before we finished cleaning and then painting the pedestal that the eagle statue rests upon. In 2005 when the plaza was re-named in my late father's honor, our family gifted the eagle to the citizens of Kootenai County." More here.

• Hot, hot, hot/Accidental Rabbit Trails
• Athol Daze/Bay Views
• A president behaving stupidly/Dogwalk Musings
• Seeing and being seen/It's Just Me
• August Orofino sky/Kellogg Bloggin'
• Giving vs. taking, Transplant 101/Nuts & Nonsense
• Hotrodding on the St. Joe/Skookum Photography
• Restless/Tumblewords
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• Purple haze/A Family Runs Through It
• As different as night and day/Atmospheric Ruminations
• What's up, Doc?/Bent's Beer Garden
• How old do you want to be?/Simple Mind
• Cute critter Thursday/JeanC's Cat House & Shooting Gallery
• Life/Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• A fresh coat of paint/Main Street
• 10 last movies I watched/books I read/Midnight Marauder
• 10 home projects we still haven't got around to/Notes On A Napkin
• Defining apetizing/Rants, Raves & Random Thoughts
• We need summer speed bumps/Slight Detour
• A case of mistaken identity/Synaptic Disunion
• Bellefest, Part I/Notes From The 'Kan EWA
• Ignoring the rising cost of health care/Wayward Episcopalian

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