HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 9/8/06

The title Pecky Cox gives to this photo taken Thursday for her blog, As The Lake Churns, sez it all: “Smoke At Priest.” You can read about it here .

* JBelle /Notes from The ‘Kan enjoys jet-setting and adventure, but those advocations can play havoc with her garden in The ‘Kan here .

* Amyrebba /Untangled Family Roots looks like she’s getting her commercial genealogy biz off the ground here .

* Marianne Love /Slight Detour wasn’t surprised when the Pend Oreille School District levy went down in flames here .

* Mommy Dearest /BrodH2O learns the hard way that the battery-operated bug swatter that The Otis gave her last year isn’t a toy here . She’s also suffering from a severe case of calendarfillineritis here .

* Jim Meehan /Idaho Vandals sez some of UI’s best former footballers were very impressed with Idaho’s play against Michigan State here .

Idawa @ Word Forge has a question to answer tonight: To keg or not to key? He writes: For some reason the notion of standing around a hot, smoky house while watching twenty somethings grind against one another doesn’t have the appeal that it used to. More here .

Meanwhile, Christine can’t believe she bought — pop tarts here , Toni survived a tough patch trying to help a vagabond cat and her litter here , Cis celebrates a family milestone here , Stebbijo is wondering if she’s a victim of a cable-TV conspiracy here , and UBob’s bemoaning a love lost here .