Taste of Homes cooks up plenty of fun and goodies
Spring's hope has sprung and I can't imagine a better place to live than right here, right now.
Where else can a person spend most of a day skiing on Sunday and then play baseball with a nine-year-old at Dub's Field that afternoon?
Remember to get your copies of Wednesday's Bee — it's Terrific Tot time. Our annual celebration of procreation features 180 of the cutest Bonner County kids ever assembled. Who's the fairest of them all? Ask any grandparent…
There have been several calls on the police scanner and we have had a few phone calls into the Bee's newsroom with reports of a mama and baby moose spotted near the Nazarene Church in Ponderay.
Of course we assigned reporter Mary Berryhill to pop out to the church to grab the photo. As soon as she left the building, though, I realized we had made a terrible mistake.
It's the wrong time of year to take a Mary Christ Moose photo, don't you think?
The end of the ski season has taken its toll on some of the area's most dedicated skiers. Serve Wilson, who prides himself on skiing as much as possible on a weekday pass at Schweitzer, keeps an exact record of the number of times he skies a season as well as the number of runs he completes.
His goal was 1,000 runs this year. He had planned on wrapping up his ski season in the middle of March — mainly because he was headed to Phoenix and Palm Springs.
On his 55th ski day, on his 1,288th run of the season, he decided to end the season with a few cracked ribs. As he tells it, he was skiing into the shed at the beginning of Stella and hooked his ski on a pole.
He tried to ski a few minutes later but couldn't take a deep breath without severe pain. He convinced his friends to summon the ski patrol and took a snowmobile ride down to the lodge and then drove to the hospital. He grimaced as he relayed the tale of woe to fellow Rotarians last Wednesday.
Skiing 55 days and making 1,288 runs equaled 23.4 runs each visit to Schweitzer. That cost Wilson $4.88 each visit and 21 cents each run. But telling the embarrassing story in front of Rotary? That was priceless.
Who skied more than 55 days this year at Schweitzer? David Kraisler are you out there?
Holland's own Rudolph Kreps decided to end his ski year last week on the bunny hill. Kreps was speeding down the Musical Chairs run trying simultaneously to aim for the parking lot while avoiding some cute little snow snakes who appeared underfoot.
He tumbled and severely bruised one of his calves. The owner of Sandpoint Physical Therapy and Aquatic Center has offered to show off his healing calf to anyone who shows up at his business on Wednesday night from 5:01 to 7:30 at the 5:01 chamber/DSBA networking party. Address? 1301 N. Division St.
The swallows may return to the Mission of San Juan Capistrano every spring, the Coots to Lake Pend Oreille every fall and now it looks like Sweetie the Mama Goose has returned to Arlo's to begin the second year of a tradition. Last year, Sweetie attracted much attention when she nested on Arlo's deck and hatched a family. Carole King and Sweetie frequent the same restaurant?
With less than a week to go, Bee advertising manager Sharon Timblin is scrambling for folding chairs for the Taste of Home Cooking Show Monday at the Fairgrounds.
Two years ago, the show absolutely packed the junior high auditorium with nearly 700 people. With that in mind, Timblin moved the show to the more spacious confines of the Bonner County Fairgrounds' exhibition hall.
The search for chairs has taken Timblin from Northern Lights to several churches. She swears she will have enough chairs for everyone on Monday. Tickets are still on sale but we are running out.
"I was hoping for a standing room-only crowd," she said. "But if this keeps up, we will have to ask anyone who buys a late ticket to bring their own chair."
David Keyes is publisher of the Bee. His column runs Tuesdays in the Bee and at bonnercountydaily.com.