Yes, it is time once again for me and my siblings to write about a similar experience. This week, Raymond Pert assigned the task of writing about an experience at the Oregon Coast. You can see his post on his site here, and Inland Empire Girls on her site here. It is also on Sunday Scribblings here.
I found this beautiful, joyful jonquil in my yard today. There was a whole patch of them, in fact. What a wonderful surprise.
PKR got the sprinkler system up and going today, and Sadie loved trying to catch the drops of water in her mouth. This picture doesn't quite do the whole experience justice. She was so darn cute.
Ah, a mighty task, but I am up to the challenge, and plan to take good care of it.
Here a one of two columbine's we also received from Aunt Susie's yard.
I was checking out the front flower bed, and realized these beautiful hyacynths were being choked by all the overgrown grass in the flower bed.
I made substantial progress on the bed. Still have some grass to pull, though. And the hyacynths don't get enough sun over here. Neither do the irises coming up behind them. So I may be doing some bulb transplanting soon. 
If you would conquer Love, 
I am the heat of your hearth, the shade screening you from the sun; 
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as thoughthey liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around
I graduated from Kellogg High School in 1981. This year marks the 50th anniversary for KHS. Tonight, anyone who had been in choir at KHS was invited to participate in a 50th anniversary concert. The choir director, Joy Persoon, asked PKR and myself if we would do a funny 80's song. So I came up with a skit where we played the roles of George Michael and Cyndi Lauper.
"George" started out with "It's Still Rock and Roll To Me" by Billy Joel.
I watch the clouds as I see them
A newsclip image found on Jim's website.
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. 
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself.
Z2 participated in her first middle school track meet at the Lake City High School track in Coeur d'Alene, hosted by Woodland Middle School. She ran in the 200, the 400 and the 4 x 100 relay.
The buds swell imperceptibly, 
Mommy Dearest at Brodh2o listed ways she knew she was from Athol, Idaho. She got the idea from Shinie at I Guess This Is Really Growing Up, who did her list on Coeur d'Alene. The assignment for my siblings this week is to write a similar list about Kellogg. Their lists are here and here.
Because I am 8 and 9 years younger than my siblings, it is interesting the things that were around for them to remember, but not me.
Let me know if anything on my list sounds familiar.
1. Bought Candy at Swanson’s Store, a.k.a. the “Little Blue Store” or “Mina’s”.
2. Parked with your boyfriend or girlfriend up Vergobbi Gulch or Ross Ranch.
3. Walked “The Trail” up to Kellogg High School, then past the school and up to the reservoir.
4. You know that “Lead Creek” is the South Fork of the Coeur d’Alene River, and going “Up the River” means going to the North Fork of the Coeur d’ Alene River. You could swim up the river. You couldn’t swim in Lead Creek. (And that’s pronounced crik, not creeeeek.)
5. You refer to the Kellogg’s only subdivision as the “Old Airport”, even though there hasn’t been an airport there for 40 years.
6. You attended either Elk Creek, St. Rita’s, Lincoln, Sunnyside, Wardner, Silver King, Pinehurst or Canyon Elementary before you came into Kellogg to attend junior high and high school.
7. When you were at Sunnyside, the Lincoln School kids seemed mean and scary. When you went to junior high, the kids who came from Pinehurst Elementary seemed mean and scary. 8. When you went to Kellogg High School, the Wallace High kids seemed mean and scary.
9. You knew there were prostitutes in Wallace and they lived on Cedar Street, but you averted your eyes every time you were in Wallace because you were afraid of what you might see.
10. Having an ethnic meal was taking a trip to Wallace and eating at Pepe’s Taco House.
Smelter Smoke was normal.
11. You rarely had new kids in class, and most of the kids you went to kindergarten with in the basement of Kellogg Junior High School you graduated with from Kellogg High School.
12. You took dance lessons from Betty Damiano.
13. You climbed up to the “Keep Idaho Green” sign made with tires spray painted white located on the hills behind your house.
14. You attended the St. Rita’s Bazaar and the Elks Roundup in Kellogg, and Frontier Days in Smelterville.
15. You dressed up funny and walked in the Kellogg Crazy Days parade.
16. The Dave Smith parking lot on Hill Street was once Pappy’s Pizza.
17. Speaking of Dave Smith, you remember when it was once Wellman’s Chevrolet.
18. You remember when Smelterville got the Fun Center, and with it came going Moonlight Bowling, playing Pac Man and Space Invaders, and attending dances at the roller rink.
19. Going swimming in the basement of the YMCA.
20. Remembering the picture of Noah Kellogg and his jackass when you ate in the Noah Kellogg room at the Sunshine Inn.
21. There was a wooden bridge over Lead Creek on Division Street.
22. Ice skating on Elk Creek Pond.
23. Switching the light off and on at the cross at the Kellogg Cemetery.
24. Attending a “kegger” up Latour Creek, or up the river or up some gulch.
25. KWAL was the only radio station you could listen to, because you couldn’t get reception for any others.
Alan Kim / The Roanoke Times via AP
Before the leaves can mount again
This week, Inland Empire Girl gave Raymond Pert and myself the assignment of writing a recipe/memoir piece for her to use in the recipe/memoir book she is writing. Trying to find a recipe and story to share was like going into a candy store and seeing all the jars of candy and knowing you can only pick one, but it is hard, because there are SO MANY CHOICES.Here is the first place winner in the Youth Division Group Documentary at Idaho History Day 2007 in Caldwell, Idaho.
Don't these three look excited!! It is because Christina, Sheila and Z2 placed second in the Junior Division Group Performances category, receiving three superior ratings which means in June they are going to the National History Day in Washington D.C.
Kiki Aru and her partner Jessi are smiling, because they won first place in the Youth Division Group Documentary for their documentary "Triumph and Tradegy: The Reforestation of the Silver Valley". They wrote a script and put narration and pictures on a DVD using the Movie Maker program. They worked hard and did a good job. They both won medals and a stuffed two-headed calf from the Idaho Historical Museum in Boise. The Youth Division doesn't advance on, but they learned a lot and have some good experience for next year.
A man would always wish to give a woman 
She also was one of the "Dixie Chickens" who backed up Humpty Dumpty, who now wants to be a country music star.
It was a very clever and fun script and the kids did great. It is such a wonderful evening when you see talented kids doing such a great performance. I only wish more people could have seen "Wonderland".
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. 
