Sarah Palin: Go Vandals — 12.14.09

This one’s for Idaho Dad and any other Merry Huckster who might want to see former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a University of Idaho sweatshirt. Photographer Paula Marchinko provided it from the Palin book signing in Sandpoint last week for Trish Gannon’s new blog, Raspberries, here .

But we were devastated the next day with the news that Lee Shellman, a longtime resident, Republican activist, and unsung hero for Hayden Lake had passed away. Shellman, who was an active force behind the Hayden Lake Watershed Association , would have been the obvious leader to take advantage of this momentum and help lead the charge. We are enormously saddened by the loss. The job will be so much more difficult without him/ Terry Harris , KEA Blog. More here .

• The trickster /Accidental Rabbit Trails
• The written word /From A Simple Mind
• Coeur d’Alene’s Sovenir Records /Get Out! North Idaho
• Hard water and rooster tails /Skookum Photography
• Spider Web /Tumblewords
• More below

• McDonalds sausage eggs McMuffins /Atmospheric Ruminations
• Weather or not /Bay Views
• Wanting to make adultery legal /Blue Moose Demo
• Cast out of the garden /Community Comment
• 3SP: Classroom video, popcorn bars, background noise, a keeper from recipe box /Gathering Around The Table
• 3BT: Poetry papers, life’s a mess, Kate time /Kellogg Bloggin’
• Not Me Monday /Midnight Marauder
• More exercising /Rants, Raves, & Random Thoughts
• Christmas tree stories /Skookum Photography

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