This year, my baby... my 39 year old baby, tells me she has bought a motorcycle.(Deep breath) ... hoping she takes her classes she talks about, after her son graduation. Yes, it is ... (ok ... another deep breath). I saw the bike, seems small and innocent enough. She does well with her classes, and seems to have deep respect for the bike. Then another call. She sees a bike on Criagslist. A Harley Davidson. Pink with flames. (I know in my heart she is getting it) And yes, she does. And she brings it by a week later. It is a beautiful bike and her smile is from ear to ear. And as she leaves my driveway each time, so happy with her Harley, I am happy for her but I pray her deceased father will watch over her/Simple Mind. More here.

• 10 things that made me smile this morning/A Butterfly Moment
• Life-changing music/A Family Runs Through It
• Routines of a teaching life/Gathering Around The Table
• Close races/Kootenai Country (Herb's new blog)
• Obey, wither, karma/Tumblewords
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Question: Do you have a loved one who makes you nervous by riding a motorcycle?

• Politics of infants/Arch Druid
• Case of the runaway pickup truck/Atmospheric Ruminations
• Halloween at the wheel/Bay Views
• Ballots are counted, sorta/Community Comment
• Community Roots program distributes 9000 pounds of food/KEA Blog
• Mmmm. Pizza/JeanC's Cat House & Shooting Gallery
• Rude awakening/Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• Hilde Kellogg Park/More Main Street
• This is how/Marmitetoasty
• 10 things I should be doing right now/Midnight Marauder
• Icky stuff/Life's A Freak Show
• 10 things I'd like to get for Christmas/Notes On A Napkin
• Sunrise salmon/Skookum Photography
• This, that, these, those Thursday/Slight Detour
• Part the second/Synaptic Disunion

HBO Numbers (for Wednesday, Nov. 4): 11,435/6249