Huckleberries Best of the Local Blogs — 11/5/07

Ralph Bartholdt/Skookum Features

Juanita “Jonesy” Woltering started hunting as a seven-year-old in West Virginia. Since moving to Idaho in 1954, Woltering, of Fernwood, has hunted annually, racking up a bookload of tales, and a room full of trophies.

*Former SR colleague Taryn Hecker didn’t take long to get back on her journalism feet. She’s just launched a new blog, The Skinny on North Idaho , with posts about new filings on the Duncan case and Wallace’s moment in the sun here .

*Put your hands together for A Butterfly Moment . She’s pregnant: “I am almost 10 weeks pregnant which isn’t long for most people, but for me it’s been 10 weeks since I’ve known.” Click here .

*Family Phil/ A Family Runs Through It tried to be a hero at a spur-of-the-moment football game and ended up free-falling and amusing his kids here .

*For two of her son’s four years, Katrina/ Notes on a Napkin took son Caleb to the mall on Halloween night. This year, she went the traditional door-to-door route — and she can’t get him to stop trick-or-treating — here .

HBO Numbers (for week of Oct. 28 to Nov. 3): 57412 page-views and 32091 unique views.

Meanwhile, Sweet & Sour Herb/ Bay Views comments on SR newsroom layoffs here ; Cis / From A Simple Mind explains why Hillary scares her here ; Kristi/ Here In Idaho sez the world will go on despite the Hollywood writers strike here ; MamaJD wants to be a Pot Pie Woman here ; ThomG/ Perspectives recalls a turning point in his life here ; and Marianne/ Slight Detour was happy to get an extra hour of sleep Sunday morning here .