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NIdaho Blogs: Train Lullaby

At Marianne Love's Lovested, there's frost on the dill. Marianne posts several photos that prove fall has come to Sandpoint (if you needed any proof after sub-30 temperatures in Kootenai County the past two nights). You can read her Tuesday Twitterdefrostypumpkins post here.

Top Post: We live next to a single train track that goes through Millwood. I kind of worried when I first moved here, how that would be. Sometimes, it is so heavy and loud, that the pictures on the wall shake, the small bottles collected over 50 years ago, vibrate to the edge of their little shelves - and we unconsciously push them back as we walk by. I try to guess which way the train is coming from - east? west? And then it appears in my kitchen window, the engineer so close I can see him smile at me, the engine so massive I am surprised at how small the engineer is, how he can control something so huge/JeanieSpokane, Nuts & Nonsense. More here.

HucksOnline numbers (for Monday): 8520/5226 and (for Tuesday): 8520/5226

Question: Have you ever lived near train tracks? What was that experience like?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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