HBO’s Best of the Local Blogs — 7/6/07

Family Phil’s caption for this: “I’ll help you down, Daddy. Don’t be scared.”

* Nic /Rants, Raves and Random Thoughts had the unhappy duty today of trying to explain to his 2-year-old that the family dog, Chara, died here .

* Mari /Dogwalk Musings is concerned that Al Gore is a man with a Messianic vision for the world and one who’s playing a cat-and-mouse game re: the presidency here .

* Frum Helen Back /Hauser Thoughts experienced her first bad Fourth of July celebration in 30-plus years at Hauser when a bunch of drunken yahoos with illegal fireworks started punching each other. Read July 5 entry first here .

* Mrs. Mac Energetic /Whatever Happened To … sez its time to pick up her father’s tradition of meticulously documenting important events in the year on a wall calendar here .

* MamaJD is trying to nurse “Sickly Pete” back to life after the sparrow survived what she calls the carnage of “Li’l Beirut” on the Fourth of July here .

* Marianne /Slight Detour posts memories of another Fourth of July in Sandpoint, including the one of being bumped twice in line while waiting to use the porta-potty here .

Meanwhile, Tumblewords pens a “Change of Pace” here , A Butterfly Moment sez every day has something to do with Jesus here , Al Turtle provides relationship tips here , Freedom of Expression had a blast camping here , Cis has no excuses for not getting things done now here , Live Love Laugh Hope eyes the beauty of garden flowers here , Silver Valley Girl celebrates a birthday and opens the Sixth Street Melodrama here , the Radon sage ends for Shinie here ,