The other day, I tagged along with a friend to the Grand Opening of the new CAT (with tractors) dealership in Hayden … The best thing about it - everything was free. Well, not everything. The tractors cost money. But there were free CAT caps, free pens, free key rings, free hamburgers and hotdogs. We’d just had brunch but still - I wanted a free hamburger. It was a hot, hot day, but cool in the two-story warehouse-type building that was more of a walk-through than anything else. What I loved was all the people in there - mostly men, but some women - who wanted to see the new CAT building and get the brochures on the newest style of tractor/Beth Bollinger, Accidental Rabbit Trails. More here.

• Border crossing with children/Are We There Yet
• Tips on shopping Albertson’s on Wednesday/Frugal Chic Living
• 8th Wonder of the World: Konkolville Fountain/Gathering Around The Table
• Yawn! EWU cuts funding for marching band/Just South Of North
• Apatow offers up comedy — with a heart/Movies & More

Question: Do you where a baseball cap with an advertisement on it? What does it say?

At our house, the division of labor is almost 50-50. Or at least, that’s what we aim for. I work part-time and go to night classes. My husband works full-time, but in the evenings and on weekends, he really makes an effort to play with the kids, cook nutritious meals for the family and do his share of the household duties. We try to reach a happy medium, but the midpoint is often elusive. There are moments when one of us gets resentful, but for the most part, we do our best to make it work/Virginia de Leon, Are We There Yet? More here.

• D.C. myths/Accidental Rabbit Trails
• Albertson’s scenarios/Frugal Chic Living
• Dear old Dad/Gathering Around The Table
• SR cuts down to size/Just South of North
• Folks still traveling, but spending less/RV Wheel Life
• Spokane VA is dismal, indeed here and here/Community Comment
• Pull over, Sonny/Spin Control
• Crazy G’s burgers, phillys and dogs/Spokane Food Blog
• Goodbye to Vox, and: Our new blog/Vox Box

Question: How do you and your significant other divide the labor in your household?

Jack Lohrke was one of the baseball players on the 1946 Spokane Indians baseball team. He was the player who was pulled off the bus at Ellensberg, Washington - right before the mountain pass and right before the bus plummeted down the mountainside, killing nine of the players on board. The highway patrol found him at dinnertime in Ellensberg to tell him that the San Diego Padres had called him up, that the Indians’ front office had asked the highway patrol to let him know, and that he should get his gear off the bus and hitchhike back to Spokane so he could fly to San Diego for his next baseball-playing opportunity/Beth Bollinger, Accidental Rabbit Trails. More here.

• Post dedicated to Linger Longer/Amateur Malcontent
• Best of Mother’s Day 2009/Notes from the ‘Kan EWA
• The Joker in the deck/Community Comment
• Things you should do to avoid swine flu/Just South Of North
• Verner press conference: Taking it to the streets/Spin Control

Question: When did you last attend a Spokane Indian ballgame?