Huckleberries Best of the Local Blogs — 1/2/07

Ailing, Family Phil rang in the New Year by taking his kids to Spokane for Kids Night Out here .

*HBO thoroughly approves of the New Year’s resolution embraced by OrangeTV /Making Flippy Floppy - “to keep this blog updated on a more regular basis and at least put something up everyday, whether it’s a random photo, a pointless story, a music or restaurant review, an oddball mp3, etc.” here .

* Katrina /Notes on a Napkin resolves, among other things, “to stop overusing parentheses (but I’m not promising anything. I’m only human, after all)” here .

* Mari /Dogwalk Musings muses that the death of former President Gerald Ford will have served a higher purpose if it pulls this divided country together here .

* Pecky Cox /As The Lake Churns warns that a winter storm warning will be in effect at Priest River and the northernmost panhandle until midnight today here and provides a Hill’s Resort web cam here .

* Bayview Herb is trying to come to grips with being called “Sweet Herb” by an anonymous Huckleberries Online poster and explains how he got his first name here .

* Marianne Love /Slight Detour is crowing for all of Idaho, including those who became part of Bronco Nation as a result of that Statue of Liberty play to decide the Fiesta Bowl here .

Wow, Backwoods Bob has redesigned Stebbijo’s Place, and it looks terrific. Check it out here .

Meanwhile, Cis doesn’t think much of pay raises for congressmen and federal judges here , Frum Helen Back suffers a tropical heat wave here , JeanC tries out a new rifle here , Raymond Pert provides a photographic tour of Kellogg here , and DanG provides Dan’s Computer Predictions for 2007 here .