Best of the Local Blogs — 7/14/05

Inside the Penny Candy Store, downtown Coeur d’Alene. Not only do they have a dazzling selection of candy, but they also have a bewildering display of old signs, advertisements, and props /Family Phil, Tall Trees (“So Like Candy”), here .

* Blogmeister Ken provides the forecast for tomorrow’s front page in “Daily Briefing”: A story of a retiree who helps others to provide relief from all the doom/gloom of the past few days; then back to 60 more inches of Joseph Edward Duncan III , which’ll gobble the A section; and the Washington court’s decision to expedite the West recall here .

* CDADave does a nice chain-of-consciousness post about a day wandering around Coeur d’Alene that perked up his spirits here and jumped in his Wayback Machine for a look at Lake City after dark here .

* Bearable Bob’s looking forward to a computer-free vacation with his three kids on the Washington coast here .

*Twentysomething Sam Taylor /Vandal Sense finally figures out why old people — those of us 40 and older — wake up so early here .

*And Marianne Love /Slight Detour is dreaming of chickadees as she deals with noisy crows here .

When I read obituaries of an elderly long married couple who’ve died within days of each other then I know love is real and monogamous love transcends any words I can possibly type here — Bearable Bob/Random Shallow Thoughts.