"The geese have returned to stake their claim on the nesting box. (You can see it behind them.) They are daily visitors, skidding across the ice on the pond. This picture was taken several days ago, before we got our latest big snow" -- Toni/Idaho Nature Trails.

New Blog: Jeff/The Bodie Spectre will be added to the "Friends of Huckleberries" blogroll tomorrow. He lives just down the "crik" from the ghost town of Bodie, Wash., and took up blogging as a way to communicate from the boonies to the rest of the world. He's an independent who leans waaaaaay right and has two children, including a National Guard son who has served in Iraq. For the Bodie Spectre, click here.

*Mari Meehan/Dogwalk Musings shares her thoughts about Amber Facer's attempt to spread her "family friendly" Gospel to Hayden here.

*Amy Crooks/That's Life. Life Goes On provides a Web site for all of you who are tired of dealing with computers and want to talk to a human here.

*I didn't have time when Sam Taylor/Vandal Sense paid a visit to Coeur d'Alene Monday and Tuesday, but Mike Kennedy did. And Sam talks about it here.

*Cis Gors/From A Simple Mind discovered something that you don't want to send to a minister's wife here.

*Marianne Love/Slight Detour comes not to praise Caesar but to prepare for the Ides of March, which for the uninitiated is Wednesday here.

Meanwhile, Jim posts that UI has a contingency plan in case Gonzaga's Leon Rice doesn't accept basketball coaching job here, Bob speaks of his love for fluffy pillows here, and JBelle speaks of speaks of the near miss her son had with a sex predator here.

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