Dennis Mansfield spotted this post and marker during a walk along the Boise green belt. Dennis explains its impact on Facebook:
Is it the hidden 14-year-old Jr. High kid that lives in all of us or am I just “odd man out”? Today I'm walking on Boise's Green Belt adjacent to the beautiful Boise River. Autumn leaves are STARTING to turn shades. It is very beautiful. And I stumble across this lone post and plaque. I stare at them. There is no context to it -no other posts that I've passed. Nothing. Just this. Then, I read it. And I start chuckling. I mean I really start laughing. Somebody chose this particular planet. And somebody put up a wooden post for it. Not Mars. Not Jupiter. This one. And the 14-year-old made his appearance! Ha!
Question: Is it just Dennis, or do you chuckle at mentions of the planet Uranus?
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.
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