Idaho Dad/A Family Runs Through It wasn't joking when he said he was going to walk across England. At the end of June, he traveled to that far and distant land to take part in a gathering of parents, and other assorted characters, who were determined to follow the 84-mile Hadrian’s Wall Path from one coast to the other. All in the name of charity. More here.

• Becoming a man/Crazy Homeschool Mama
• I should have voted for McCain/Dogwalk Musings
• W.A.S.P. celebration at Bird Museum/From A Simple Mind
• Back roads tour/Gathering Around the Table
• Kind of a busy weekend/JeanC's Cat House & Shooting Gallery
• Panhandle Forest promises monitoring reports/KEA Blog
• Finding solitude in holiest of all places/Keith Erickson
  
• Let's fight/Nuts & Nonsense
• Chanel fall 2010 makeup collection/Prime Beauty
• An interesting fishing hole/Rants, Raves, & Random Thoughts
• Sweet and sunny thoughts/Slight Detour
• Smoke and Ruins/Tumblewords
• HBO Numbers (for week of July 11-17): 49,073/30,309