Although home-school is winding down and there's plenty left to do before summer break starts, Idaho Dad/A Family Runs Through It found some time to allow his kids to dig in the dirt along the north shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene.

• Farmer's Market fun in the sun/Bent's Beer Garden
• I do, he/she said mechanically/Community Comment
• To be or not to be gay/Dogwalk Musings
• To scream or not to scream/Otis G Experience
• Cream is betta/Prime Beauty
• On the road to Hickeyville/Slight Detour
• More below

• Don't cry for me/A Butterfly Moment
• Who would Kathleen Parker want for an ordinary American?/Arch Druid
• The little lion who absolutely roared/Atmospheric Ruminations
• New seasons/Bay Views
• The weather/From A Simple Mind
• Personification in finest form/Gathering Around the Table
• 30 years?! Whoa/JeanC's Cat House & Shooting Gallery
• 3BT: Liberty of ideas, Pedro Paramo's suffering, Episcopalians and the Bible/Kellogg Bloggin'
• My daughter's logic/Rants, Raves, & Random Thoughts
• Rain for ABC Wednesday/Tumblewords

HBO Numbers (for Monday, May 17): 11,211/6845