The long weekend started out in Bayview with the imminent closure of the Captain's Wheel hanging over our heads. Starting with a packed house for New Years Eve, and lasting all the way through to about 7:30 pm Sunday, a full 3 1/2 hours past the scheduled close. Then it was over. The key turned in the lock, perhaps for the last time, at least with present ownership/Herb Huseland, Bay Views. More here

• Cure for spring fever/Bent's Beer Garden
• The empty container/From A Simple Mind
• 9 Easy Questions: Tracey Vaughn/Get Out! North Idaho
• Resolution revision No. 1/Nuts & Nonsense
• My 2010 predictions/Rants, Raves, & Random Thoughts
• Red Rob, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho/Skookum Photography
• More coming
  

• Is this the kind of new year it's going to be?/Atmospheric Ruminations
• Our foreign policy: Scold then withhold/Dogwalk Musings
• Best flower in winter: Amaryllis/Gathering Around The Table
• Idaho wolf tags -- buy early and buy often/KEA Blog
• 3BT: Home, Wallace Stevens, The Car/Kellogg Bloggin'
• Busy times/Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• Oh, what a beautiful day/Slight Detour
• Y is for yurt and yearn/Tumblewords

HBO Numbers (for Tuesday, Jan. 5): 10983/5891