I’d buy some politicians and at least two Supreme Court justices.
Bird nerd, Tali's person, master naturalist, Boise State alum, 4th gen Idahoan and former Alaskan.
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I’d buy some politicians and at least two Supreme Court justices.
Well now, wouldn’t it be funny if a bunch of us joined the live Facebook Q&A about applying for a Customs and Border Patrol job… I do love the comments. 1/2
The sound of the running water is nice background noise, too.
That is great news! I'd sure love to go there som day. We lucked out and got a McNeil River permit many, many years ago. Haven't been drawn since.
This is the way
My first thought is that he got rammed by the partner of the woman he supposedly helpe, but then why wouldn't they say that? What a weird statement.
This is the only reason I have for wanting a second computer monitor: to watch the bears, gulls, mergansers, and salmon at Brooks Falls. #Alaska www.youtube.com/live/UHgF74i...
It’s a little smoky from wildfires, but that makes the golden hour light more interesting.
I have several left from our Running of The Bulls costumes from Halloween on Harrison a few years ago. I should hand them out.
I need to work on a new sign... Hope to see my Boise peeps at the Capitol tomorrow at 11 a.m. Wear a red bandana!
Just spent the past hour creating accounts with Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian so I could freeze my credit, and then writing my Congress critters to scream about the latest DOGE gross mismanagement at the Social Security Administration. How's your morning going?
He didn't get to be in many sketches, which had to be frustrating. I would have rather seen him in more, and less of James Austin Johnson doing Trump in the openers. The latter does a fine job, but it's just not funny anymore so I mute it.
That one would be amazing to see! Boise's is small peanuts compared to theirs, but it still makes us happy.
Not my car (though a lot people think it is). Still funny!
"Grizzly Maze" (stupid fingers)
I hope his last thoughts were realizing that he just got his girlfriend killed, too. Horrible story. The book “The Grizzly MaE” by Nick Jans is haunting but excellent. Lmk if you want to borrow it.
I miss Steve.
JESUS, is everyone ok?
Not everyone in a red state or rural area votes GOP.
Trump is calling for repealing a rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forest land from development. USFS public comment period Aug. 29- Sept. 19. dailymontanan.com/2025/08/28/f...
So many people's first response to seeing a rattlesnake is to want to kill it. But trying to torch them was a stupid response, even if he thought it wouldn't burn down the outhouse.
How fun for them!
Pretty morning for balloons over #Boise. #IdahoEscape
Same!
This happened in 1982, btw.
I didn't remember the details perfectly. It's even crazier. #snakes #idaho #wildfire
Please tell me this is real.
Haven't been to the Night Glow at the Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic for several years (this was from the first time we saw it in 2015) but I can watch it online. Looks very crowded there.
Dang! That sounds painful--and scary.
Friday funny: be careful where you leave your car tonight.
I’m reminded of the time one of my junior high teachers heard a rattler down the hole in the outhouse at Robie Creek. He dropped a flaming stick down it and blew up the outhouse and was hospitalized for quite some time. Don’t try that.
I'm so glad I learned a bunch of those when I was a bird bander!
That whine is always so stupid to me. Neither are Chico, Jacksonville, San Diego, Sonoma, San Francisco, Charter Oak, Palm Beach, Tallahassee, Albany, Savannah, Lewis-Clark, Ball, Wichita, Wayne, Buffalo, Empire, Bowling Green, Portland, Weber, Evergreen, Chicago, etc., etc.
Love it!
I come up on Monday for my ladies’ paddle party. Hoping you can join us at some point!
I love the snowflake lady that stormed out when he started using swear words (probably swearing under her breath while she did).
Heads up--the balloons have launched in #Boise! This is from a few years ago.
Ah, you are right about the barge. I've never been to Teller, Candle, or any river communities out west where Wien flew then. I don't know enough about Nome's terrain to compare it either. A fun mystery for me to work on. Richard might have the photo with a caption on the back, too.
@anchistorian.bsky.social Hey David, would you by chance know where this photo was taken? It would have been somewhere Noel Wien flew. Richard Wien doesn't recognize it. The building above the wing seems distinctive.
Oh man, I am so sorry. It's such a gut punch when they go. Leaves a big hole in my heart but eventually it fills with good memories. Eighteen years is an amazing run. RIP, Rascal.
Subway will limit the size of their sandwiches before Congress limits the bullets in magazines.
Accurate headline: FDA abandons science, makes medical approval decisions based on the whims of a brainwormed former heroin abuser.
Normally it makes here nervous, or at least excited, because I taught her that every thunder or firework boom means she gets a treat. She just stay relaxed yesterday, though. There weren't any big cracks and the rain was loud on the roof, so maybe that's why.
Enjoy that cocoa while you can afford it! I just bought another can today.
Congratulations Catelin Drey and to the people of Iowa!! They have broken the republicans supermajority!! Republicans will now need support from at least one Democratic senator to confirm Gov Reynolds' nominees to state agencies, boards and commissions. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
I love the camouflage clothing and the highly visible vests.
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
Arizona is well-known for them. I'd like to go there after monsoon season to see everything all greened up.
I'm amazed there is any coverage out there.
Thanks. Of course, I sure don't remember many burn scars along roads in my youth. Just the old one at the bridge several miles above Banks that was already shrubby. Lots of grass fires then, but it seems like they were put out pretty quickly (the one above Boise in '59 was before my time).
We went once (probably in Texas) many years ago. My arteries clogged just looking at the menu. "Chicken-fried steak or chicken-fried chicken with your choice of 8 fried or fat-smothered sides." Never plan to go back.
I remember how pridefully an Idaho guard member told me about winter 2017, 'snowmageddon,' when the guard took its snow removal drills off base into the streets of Boise, and cleared hundreds of streets that had overwhelmed ACHD crews. hard to think morale for this is anything like that.
Wow. So do you know if having monsoons here is a newish thing? I don't remember ever hearing that term used here my first 30 years in Boise.
LOL. Nothing like rattling down a bumpy dirt road at 10 mph in a cheaply made plywood box with screws popping loose everywhere. Maybe we’ll do Scott Mountain Rd to Deadwood instead. 😆
Got a wee bit of puddling going on outside.
Thanks. Probably won’t be the only slide that happens up there. A bummer when one finally gets their favorite, hard-to-score campsite, but it is what it is. There are much worse things in life.
Well, I guess our trip to Bulltrout Lake is off 😭.
Sitting on our covered porch with Tali, enjoying the cool air and the sound of thunder and pouring rain. Happy #NationalDogDay
With the price of chocolate being so high (thank you climate change and Trump tariffs), this might be what I hand out for Halloween this year.
The BBC just covered it. Heck, I will take any non-sh*tty news I can get these days.
Jeezus, that was a sad and difficult read. I can't believe there aren't any safeguards in these systems to prevent this flood of detailed, cruel methodology. The company will probably settle and nothing will change.
It's so gross and embarrassing. I will never understand how these people live with themselves.
Um, doesn't putting MORE workers into a building increase the energy and water consumption? What am I missing here? This seems like a weak idea. Please submit your suggestions for reducing Idaho's government waste here. 2/2 legislature.idaho.gov/doge/
So, Idaho's DOGE committee is looking for ways to cut waste. Josh Tanner (R-Eagle) said he wants to call remote workers back into state office buildings. “Some of them are empty, some of them are only partially filled and yet we’re still paying a massive amount of money for gas, heat." 1/2
So many incidents seem to be a case of having no rage control. They have someone subdued on the ground but continue punching him in the kidneys or tase him, or after a long car chase for speeding five officers pump bullets into the guy when he finally stops and exits the vehicle.
My god, this incident at the Alaska State Fair taking down a man who apparently had a warrant for failure to appear (but they didn't tell him until they had choked him, ripped his kid from his arms, tased him multiple times, punched him, and stood on his ankles.) alaskapublic.org/news/public-...
Thank you. From my experience leading the Sagebrush Program at ISCC, SBWCC and SRCI, I have to say that Oregon has a MUCH better system for trying to rehabilitate and reduce recidivism with their residents. No doubt has a lot of room for improvement, but the differences were staggering to me.
So, sending inmates out of state no doubt costs a lot of money. Besides decreasing how many people we incarcerate (and/or releasing some sooner) or building more prisons, do you have any ideas how to address that?
I love that second one! Also, no special sessions to deal with issues they fail to handle during the regular session. No more passing of obviously unconstitutional laws that leads to costly, losing lawsuits (or, make the politician that submits each bad law pay the legal fees when they lose).
Oops, see my suggestion in response to another email. Also, quit sending our National Guard to the Texas border and instead work with Congress to pass a guest worker program--before they kill off the dairy and some farm industries. Claw back the tax cuts for the rich and big corporations.
Here's another REALLY good one: stop passing stupid, unconstitutional laws that result is costly lawsuits that Labrador always loses.
Looks like they will be meeting again on Sept. 29 and will at comments then. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/25/i...
I can always tell where the neighborhood turkey flock has been. Nothing that a broom won’t tidy up.
And I believe you can submit more than one suggestion. I’ve done several so far.
Good one. I’ve submitted six suggestions so far and should add that one.
Greg Carr is the most shining example of someone who funneled his wealth into amazing human rights and environmental projects. I wish he could help kick the Nazis out of North Idaho again. houseandwhips.com/greg-carr-ne...
I'm working on Ben Eielson's exhibit panel right now (but not the Siberian tragedy--that will be a winter project). The guy had a poor sense of direction but I've really grown to admire the skills he developed.
@racheljo.bsky.social Rachel, I've been thinking it would be fun to chat with you about all the research I've been doing on Interior Alaska's first pilots (and how much of it is contradictory). Also,I thought you might enjoy this recent interview with Richard Wien: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6gq...
Spending my morning writing suggestions to the Idaho "DOGE" task force. Time is running out for folks to submit their ideas (starting with eliminating private school voucher handouts). Here's the link: legislature.idaho.gov/doge/
I wish I had thick enough skin to run for office.
We picked a bad time to drive up Highway 21 through the Wapiti burn scar and camp at Bulltrout Lake (though I do love a good rainstorm while cozy in a little camper).
JFC
Another day, another attempt to make an edit in Wikipedia. Wish I could do the same for books and websites.
Even folks in prison get fruit with their lunches.
For several weeks I've been getting a weird amount of traction on some random posts from people who didn't follow me, so I had to turn off commenting. Then this weekend I was getting some testy or rude replies and just closed Bluesky. Feels extra toxic lately.
What in the AI tarnation are all these books?
Sheesh, people on Bluesky are spicy today. I’m out.
The stories in my family history are horrifying including babies dying from starvation, malnutrition, falling into scalding water, difficult births, and illness. One great x4 grandmother lost 9 of her 12 children. And yet some want us to go back to that.
Can you put them in your windows without breaking any current HOA rule? Either way, it’s time to run for seats on the board.
Greenland breathes sigh of relief as it turns out Trump has decided on a military occupation of the United States instead.
Some of Trump’s billions for ICE should go to this, but we know he hates animals.
My original comment was in response to someone saying NPR is losing money by covering a story that affects millions of (LDS) Americans. It went downhill from there. But I still have met decent, progressive members of the church.
You really think I don’t know the negative impact they’ve had on my state in my seven decades of life? Our Congress critters are LDS too and utterly wretched (except for a couple of shining moments by Mile Simpson).
Lordy, rural Mormons took over the Idaho legislature a century or more ago. The evangelical Christians are a far bigger threat. And a few younger, progressive Mormons I know are doing a great job on local councils.
Actually, he and Maxwell aren’t lying. To them child rape is not “inappropriate” or “wrong.”
Only a matter of time before he covers all of his body (except the tiny peen he can’t find) in gold paint.
The wall isn’t on Mexico’s land. Still a beyond-stupid idea. The last black paint peeled. Plus, night.
I’m on a silver plan and had to fork over thousands for the deductible on my recent back surgery. Almost half my pre-tax income is going to health care and insurance this year. I sure hope Medicare is still a thing when I hit 65 in a few years, but I’m not confident.
