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OTV looks for waterfalls but dines with Cabbage Patch dolls instead: http://getoutnorthidaho.blogspot.com/2009/05/panhandle-cafe.html
Jeanie fondly remembers Oscar— the oven mitt: http://www.jeaniespokane.blogspot.com/
Silver Valley Girl shares about her close encounters of the family kind: http://silvervalleystories.blogspot.com/2009/05/close-encounters.html
Mrs. Mac shares a wonderful Nathan story: http://scentedgeranium.blogspot.com/2009/05/all-in-good-time.html
And Marianne Love writes of Man and Birds: http://slightdetour.blogspot.com/2009/05/of-man-and-birds.html
Having somehow misplaced DFO’s secret super-special blog roll formula I’m endeavoring to invent one of my own. Here we go:
Jen and family have seen the light and adopted some new family memembers: http://abutterflymoment.blogspot.com/
Bent has unearthed an important new beer study: http://bentsbeergarden.blogspot.com/
Raymond Pert shares 3 beautiful things, including awkward family photos: http://kelloggbloggin.blogspot.com/
Liz tells us more about dog tampons than you’ll ever want to know: http://mylifesafreakshow.blogspot.com/
Marmie’s boy flies the coop: http://marmitetoasty.blogspot.com/
And that’s all I have time for. Maybe more later :-)
A family of sparrows found a puddle of melted snow on East Lakeshore Dr. the perfect place to take a bath on this sunny February day in North Idaho/Kerri Thoreson, OnLocation North Idaho.
Boobie Squishing Time: So I had my annual mammogram first thing this morning. Not really something I like to have to get up early for, but it is over and done with for this year and now I just have to await the results. Fingers crossed I don’t get that stupid letter again saying they need to do further examinations. Ultrasounds are freakin’ cold!/JeanC’s Cat House & Shooting Gallery. More here.
Question: How often do you visit your doctor for a complete physical examination?
Granati/OrangeFrog76 gets up close and personal with the brushes at a local car wash.
The Disparities: My friend Oliver Lemke and his brothers Julian and Harrison (all from Coeur d’Alene) are the three members of the indie pop band “The Disparities.” I was a groomsman in Oliver’s wedding and played with Oliver and Julian at a high school talent show back home in Idaho so maybe I’m a bit biased when I say this, but they’re pretty good. Give ‘em a listen, rate their music at ourstage.com, friend them on MySpace, and maybe buy the album/Wayward Episcopalian. You can listen to “The Wreck” by The Disparities here.
HBO Numbers (for Wednesday, Feb. 18): 8972 page-views/4704 unique views
Congratulations are in order for Gathering Around The Table — one of the 3 blogs compiled by our favorite current and former Silver Valley siblings. Gathering Around The Table recently celebrated its second blogiversary.
HBO Numbers (for Tuesday, Feb. 17): 8073 pageviews/4328 unique views
Spirit Lake, about 25 miles northwest of Coeur d’Alene, is still frozen over despite temperatures in the high 30s for the past few weeks. Snowmobilers took advantage of the wide open frozen surface to ride over the weekend/Kerri Thoreson, OnLocation North Idaho.
HBO Numbers (for Monday, Feb. 16): 6222 page-views/3382 unique views
Schoolchildren and dignitaries pulled on the brightly colored, star-covered drape, and Idaho’s newly restored and relocated Abraham Lincoln monument was unveiled in its new spot, near the corner of Capitol Boulevard and Bannock Street, just south of the state Capitol. Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise (you took this photo) tells you all about it here.
“You can find them in every town. Everywhere in the United States, at least. They’re called ‘sky shoes.’ We’ve encountered them in every place we’ve lived,” begins Toadman/Synaptic Disunion. If you want to know more about “Sky Shoes,” click here.
Neo-Note Passing: Princess’s father has little or no tolerance for the ongoing beeping or the phone that has become a permanent extension of my child’s body. I tried explain that texting replaces the hours of note writing and passing that I participated in as a youth. This must be a girl thing. Mr. Man, (my husband) said he only passed notes to ask a girl out or to get a homework assignment. He became a little docile about texting until he found out that boys were texting Princess. It esculated into a big tadoo when he found out she was replying to boys that she vaguely knew/Sparky’s Notes. More here.
HBO Numbers (for Wednesday, Feb. 11): 7020 page-views/3930 unique views
Question: Does your kid(s)’ texting bug you?
Former state Rep. Wayne Meyer, R-Rathdrum, who died this week at age 59 of colon cancer. In this photo, Meyer, one of the last grass seed farmers on the Rathdrum Prairie and a former state legislator, jokes with family members while clambering into a tractor on May 4, 2007, near Rathdrum. Betsy Russell/Eye On Boise discusses Meyer here.
HBO Numbers (for Tuesday, Feb. 10): 7401 page-views/3865 unique views
At As The Lake Churns, blogmistress Pecky Cox calls this shot “gone south.”
In Priest Lake over the weekend, Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns was on hand for the 40th annual running of the U.S. Pacific Coast Championship Races. She has an interview with seventysomething musher Joe Hawley, who returned to the races after a 25-year hiatus, here.
Late Phone Calls: Polite People don’t call after 9 p.m. Any time the phone rings in our house after 9, it jars us. Because we wonder who is hurt or what is going on. We don’t call people after 9 pm unless it is a prearranged deal. We don’t call people with children after 8 p.m. As we know they are in the process of getting the kids thru baths, beds stories and etc. We just don’t feel comfortable with late calls/Simple Mind. More here.
Question: How late is the latest you’ll make a casual phone call to someone?
Hello. I was an early supporter of Barack Obama during his candidacy. I am also a strong proponent of civil discourse in our society. You and I may have vastly different ideologies about the world around us, and have world views that are often at odds with one another, but that does not mean we cannot meet one another and talk and discuss out of mutual respect for the other’s opinions. I believe it is possible for people to amicably disagree with one another, and still find mutual ground on which to form a compromise. And though I disagree with you on many social and religious beliefs, I greatly respect you for continuing to be a strong supporter of civil discourse in our deeply divided and angry society/Toadman, Synaptic Disunion. More here.
Question: What do you think of Barack Obama’s friendly relationship with Evangelical preacher Rick Warren? Or vice versa?
At Priest Lake this morning, Pecky Cox/As The Lake Churns welcomed the sun and fog with her camera.
HBO Numbers: for January (152,467/87,790), for Jan. 25-31 (35,736/19,217), for Monday (6368/3502)
“The closest we come to groundhogs in North Idaho is their cousin, the marmot. Often found near water, there’s quite a large neighborhood of the creatures in Falls Park in Post Falls,” posts Kerri Thoreson, OnLocation North Idaho. More here.
Compromise? Not: Well yes, this is all true. But if I may say something in my
defense? OK they said. First, most of the real good ones are gone. Not only gone, but like many or most of them, they know they have a good thing. That leaves me with one: losers. Two, winners that don’t want a second go-around, and three they don’t live in Bayview. Oh, and three, I can’t do it anymore. I can’t be wrong when I’m right and all of those other stupid compromises we men have to make to keep peace. I continue to believe that I am equal to women, no matter what they think, and until I find one that admits that, forget it/S&S Herb, Bay Views. More here.
Question: Bayview Herb contends that men are equal to women. Do you agree?
Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin, Police Chief Cliff Hayes and Post Falls PD Lt. Greg McLean pose with the torch at the Post Falls Police Department/KerriT, OnLocation North Idaho. More here.
How To Win A Husband: My fellow blogger Bay View Herb asked a little favor of me to share a love story, in particular my love story with my husband. He only asked for 100 to 200 words but as I sat down to write how my husband and I met and why we are still together after all these years, I realized I had more than 200 words to share. I don’t want to spoil Herb’s article so I won’t disclose any of the tidbits I gave him but I will share how I won my husband in a bet/Sparky’s Notes. More here.
“This past week there have been robin sightings nearly every day,” posts KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho. “On Sunday a large flock came for a breakfast of berries. While there’s no scientific evidence to back up my conclusion that even though North Idaho is in the midst of a near single digit cold snap, the robins are anticipating an early spring.”
Digital TV Conspiracy: First, this is a government mandated conversion. For your television connection. I think all kinds of conspiracy theories can propagate themselves right in this one little conversion proposal. It’s government mandated! It’s very “Big Brother is Watching You.” I wonder if this means that Big Brother is **really** watching me as I watch Desperate Women. Can Big Brother hear conversations in my house? Is that just too paranoid? Is it really? If the government can mandate how your television is connected, then can it eventually mandate what you watch and when you watch it?/JeanieSpokane, Nuts & Nonsense. More here.
HBO Numbers (for Monday, Jan. 26): 6935 page-views/3519 unique views.
“This tree line along the road on the way to Fernan Saddle, high above Fernan Lake offers a typical picture postcard view of beautiful North Idaho in the winter,” posts Councilwoman KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho.
Granati gives us a bird’s-eye view of a car wash at OrangeFrog 76.
What if I waited for Joe? Would divorce and single motherhood still be in my future? Where would I live? Who would I be? Would I be Mrs. Joe or would I be Jeanie, formed from my past struggles and obstacles into a person who takes such things in stride, if not with a sense of humor. Would I have lost that person to become Mrs. Joe? Or would having wealth and prosperity and St. George’s school for my sons make me into something else. Would I have had more children? Would I have a daughter? Would Joe have been like my Dad, loving and kind, successful, affluent? Or was Joe only human too?/JeanieSpokane. More here.
HBO Numbers: 6103 page-views/3395 unique views
Question: Have you ever wondered what would have happened had you married another sweetheart rather than the one you ended up with?
“Rathdrum Creek runs off Rathdrum Mountain and here, where it flows through Rathdrum City Park, outcroppings from the shore create an icy mosaic,” posts Kerri/OnLocation North Idaho.
My husband sent me a text and I replied to him to be safe and that I loved him. A few minutes later, I got a text from my boss saying he thought highly of me too, but he was sure my text of love was for my hubby. I turned several shades of red, then giggled as I realized what I had done, and turned more shades of red/Live, Love, Laugh, Hope (“Color Me Red”). More here.
Question: Have you ever sent a personal note to a family member or loved one, only to be embarrassed when it accidentally landed in someone else’s e-mailbox?
You can discover why Jantri/Brand X Ranch wished she was born during the era of cowgirls by clicking here.
I am inviting you to join me at … MySpace, Face space, Reunion space, Family space. These are all nice things, but I am not a joiner. Never been good at clubs and such. Goes back to the Brownie bit. Remember, I used my Brownie dues for the Penny Store. I shared my bubble gum with the girls, but that didn’t count. And I got kicked out of Brownies/Simple Mind. More here.
HBO Numbers: 7696 page-views/4714 unique views
*Cowgirls/Brand X Ranch
*Stuff I’ve always wondered about/Atmospheric Ruminations
*It’s over for now/Bay Views
*Puffed childhood/Community Comment
Question: I’m with Cis (in the featured post above) re: not being a joiner. I’ve joined only one civic club in my life, Kalispell Kiwanis, and only because I was ordered by late Publisher Pat King to do so. How about you? Are you a joiner?
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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