Pictures grouped on a wall that hang crooked despite your constant egging them back to the square.Motorists who always drive in the passing lane on the highway ... and at a slower speed than a turtle crawls.Parents who perceive the local Wal-Mart as the best…
Once Aunt Beryl taught me how to capture chickens, it was a short run from there to the beheading pen, surrounded top and all four sides with chicken wire, adjacent to the chicken house and thus convenient for those moments when you wanted to part…
Well, about 3 weeks ago we had another MOUSE incident. ... this time it was Ambrose that came galloping in through the catflap carrying a squeeling wriggling little dormouse. ... I shouted at me cat at the top of me voice, and it scared her…
(You have come a long way, baby) was the saying when I was in my 30's. It was part cigarette saying and the by word of women. The call, so to speak, that we could do anything. That men were nice, but we did not…
There is an air of entitlement in our society, and it stinks. This is a two-headed monster threatening to devour those of us in the middle. The “haves” and the “have-nots” are very different kinds of people, but both groups feel that they deserve privileges…
North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough, left, shoots around the reach of Gonzaga guard Micah Downs (22) in the first half of a men's NCAA tournament regional semifinal college basketball game in Memphis, Tenn., tonight. North Carolina led by double digits throughout the second half and…
I'm taking the day off today, but I left plenty of fodder below for you to peruse and to discuss. It's Sweet 16 day, of course. So there's an HBO Poll re: favorite current Zag player and some links to pre-game stories by Jim Meehan.…
Matt Bouldin of Gonzaga is framed by the logo and bright lights in Memphis, Tenn. Thursday as the Zags prepare for their Sweet Sixteen game against North Carolina today. Jim Meehan's pre-game story here and notebook here. Christopher Anderson/Spokesman-Review. More photos of Zags practice Thursday.Question:…
Cis Gors/From A Simple Mind offers this "easter egg" for those who think they know something re: geography. You'd better know something re: northern Africa and the Middle East before proceeding here.
So long to one of President Barack Obama's picks for the Final Four. The president's NCAA tournament bracket took a hit Thursday night when Memphis lost to Missouri 102-91. Obama also missed with Duke's loss to Villanova, and slipped to the bottom half of the…
Wednesday, legislation resolving a number of wilderness issues in the country, and incorporating the collaborative compromise over Idaho's Owyhee Canyonlands, was endorsed by every House member from the Northwest with only two exceptions: eastern Washington's Cathy McMorris Rodgers (pictured) and Doc Hastings. It tells you…
Memphis' Chance McGrady, left, and Roburt Sallie sit dejectedly in the locker room after their team's loss to Missouri in a men's NCAA college basketball tournament regional semifinal in Glendale, Ariz., Thursday. Missouri won 102-91. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
I have literally lost count of how many weddings I've participated in during the course of my 25-year-old life. While I never made it as a flower girl, around age 10, my younger sister and I solemnly watched over the guest book at a family…
<a href ="http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1492372/" >Which 2008-09 Gonzaga Bulldog regular is your favorite Zag?</a> <br/> <span style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;" mce_style="font-size:9px;"> (<a href ="http://www.polldaddy.com"> polls</a>)</span>
RE: HBO Poll: Wolf Lodge Inn steaks/Huckleberries OnlineEscapee: How many Real Men out there will confess to ordering the “Cowgirl”…that's where Wolf Lodge Inn is smart…because a Real He-Man would probably opt for the more expensive “Cowboy” or “Rancher”? Or, in these complicated times, a…
JeanieS: I could get lost in a paper bag. Worse - I have to be **on time** if not 15 minutes early for dinner dates. I have been known to wander and wander and not be able to find the “quaint little bistro behind the…
RE: LaSarte finally gets hero's welcome/Ralph Bartholdt, St. Maries Gazette-RecordStickman: I tell the story sometimes of a young man who on his last day in country, was killed in an ambush. One of the tears of my life, even to this day. I cry everytime…
Before I get into the evening headlines, I'd like to point out that Huckleberries Online has a new blogroll -- devoted to Spokane area bloggers (in the right rail). Next week, I'll explore possible ways to highlight bloggers on the blogroll. Mebbe some sort of…
Atlas Elementary third grader Derrick Collins reads a biography about Harriet Tubman at the school in Coeur d'Alene on Wednesday. Reading scores for Kootenai County's youngest students, the kindergarten through third graders, have improved quite a bit since the beginning of the school year, as…
A civilized political process could finally be taking root. Back room deals may be replacing roadside bombs as a means of getting things done in the land of the Tigris and Euphrates. It is not impossible to imagine that, 10 years from now, Iraq will…
I discover new things that add to my fear of heights – besides changing light bulbs and cleaning ceiling fans. Fire escape stairs. I cannot go down fire escape stairs. I can go up just fine. I went to see a friend in an apartment…
"I was OnLocation for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Post Falls Dam this week," posts Councilwoman KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho. "If you want proof that spring is on the way, eight of nine gates are wide open, flowing 10,000 cubic feet per second. This is a…
Inspired by a famous 50-year-old Life magazine photograph, Saint Mary's College students attempt to break the campus' 24 bodies in a phone booth record Wednesday on their Moraga, Calif. campus. The phone booth competition comes 50 years after Life magazine published a now-famous photograph of…
5:22 p.m. R/P reports a dog in a red SUV in front of a local day care hasn't been given food or water since 2 p.m.4:56 p.m. Hazmat unit is checking out an oil slick behind Cricket's/Coeur d'Alene.4:50 p.m. Vehicles are racing in and out…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
