Bay Views: Party’s Over @ Wheel

The long weekend started out in Bayview with the imminent closure of the Captain’s Wheel hanging over our heads. Starting with a packed house for New Years Eve, and lasting all the way through to about 7:30 pm Sunday, a full 3 1/2 hours past the scheduled close. Then it was over. The key turned in the lock, perhaps for the last time, at least with present ownership/ Herb Huseland , Bay Views. More here

• Cure for spring fever /Bent’s Beer Garden
• The empty container /From A Simple Mind
• 9 Easy Questions: Tracey Vaughn /Get Out! North Idaho
• Resolution revision No. 1 /Nuts & Nonsense
• My 2010 predictions /Rants, Raves, & Random Thoughts
• Red Rob, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho /Skookum Photography
• More coming
  

• Is this the kind of new year it’s going to be?/ Atmospheric Ruminations
• Our foreign policy: Scold then withhold /Dogwalk Musings
• Best flower in winter: Amaryllis /Gathering Around The Table
• Idaho wolf tags — buy early and buy often /KEA Blog
• 3BT: Home, Wallace Stevens, The Car /Kellogg Bloggin’
• Busy times /Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• Oh, what a beautiful day /Slight Detour
• Y is for yurt and yearn /Tumblewords

HBO Numbers (for Tuesday, Jan. 5): 10983/5891