How long does a person have to wait until the fireworks start? From Miami to San Diego, the show begins around 9 PM, when the sky is dark. However, earlier events draw people into the parks and other venues. By about 8 PM, kids are getting worn out from dancing around. Everyone is achy from…
Once again, I find myself living on an imaginary line. In ND, I lived close to the 100th meridian, the infamous, imaginary line that designates the change from being in the eastern to being in the western half of the US. Now, I am practically living on the Idaho/Washington border, on the Idaho side. All…
“It sure rains a lot in the Northwest”. “Don’t you know how rainy it is out there?” “Wonder what its like with all the moisture?” When I told folks that I was moving to the great Northwest, those were the responses. Rain. Lots of it. Won’t that be awful? After all, I have lived…
So happy that Coeur d’Alene has an abbreviation – CdA. I saw it first in a newspaper article. Apparently others decided that typing that lowercase d followed by an apostrophe is a bit cumbersome. So CdA it is. CdA is a small city with 55,000 people, in the Idaho Panhandle. It is 15 miles from the…