Huckleberries: Coyote on runway doesn’t dim local woman’s D.C. march high

A coyote. A stinking coyote. Shirley Stafford Thagard, of Hayden Lake, was tired, exhilarated and motivated as her plane from Dayton, Ohio, was about to set down in Denver Monday. All systems go. Shirley was thinking happy thoughts of her trip to Washington, D.C., where she had hung out with 500,000 of her closest friends to send a message to new President Donald Trump and his administration. Her reverie was interrupted when the pilot pulled up the landing gear at the last minute and began an assent again. The plane circled Denver International and then landed 15 minutes later. As Shirley deplaned, she asked the pilot what had happened. Seems a coyote out for a stroll on the tarmac had prompted the evasive action. The lost time forced Shirley to race across the large airport to catch a connecting flight to Spokane, only to run into a three-hour delay. She finally reached Spokane at midnight, still determined to help make fire-engine red North Idaho somewhat more purple/ DFO , Wednesday Huckleberries. More here .