Labor Day on the Grass

A wine tasting, mountain bike ride, talent show, salmon dinner and car show are just a sampling of the fun Spirit Lake has in store for Labor Day weekend.

 

“Labor Day on the Grass” kicks off Thursday, Sept. 3 with the Spirit Lake Chamber of Commerce’s annual Wine Tasting and Auction at the little park on Maine Street. The event begins at 6 p.m. with live music, local wines and micro brews.

 

A bike ride benefitting the Spirit Lake Parks and Recreation Commission is set for the morning of Saturday, Sept. 5.  Following a pancake breakfast provided by Calvary Christian Fellowship, participants will be bussed to the Mt. Spokane Ski Area and ride their bikes back to Spirit Lake along 20 miles of easy downhill logging roads.

 

Tickets for the ride, which includes a souvenir T-Shirt, are $35 each.

 

The bike ride ends at City Park, where events are planned all weekend including live music, a mountainman encampment, booths, Old Ways Society, Dutch Oven cooking demonstrations and more.

 

A talent show and salmon dinner are planned for 6 p.m. Saturday evening with musicians, jugglers, comedians, dancers and magicians vying for cash prizes.

 

Sunday’s events include a car show at City Park and classic rock music by the J.W. Hardin Band and Muddy Frog Watters.

 

Monday is the town’s annual Labor Day parade on Maine Street.  The day’s entertainment lineup at City Park includes the Jimmy Brown Band, Brad Sondahl and the VFW foot race and corn on the cob.

For Information Contact:

Bike Ride & Car Show – Marc Kroetch, 208-623-5130

Vendors – Verla Reed, 208-623-2275

Wine Tasting & Auction – Roxanne Kusler, 208-623-5700

Music & Talent Show – George Bruner, 208-263-3129

Fishing Sprague Lake

You can bet I'll be back.

Redneck Lobstering

In this month's River Journal I write about Redneck Lobstering aka the fine art of catching crawdads.

An excerpt:

When my beau asked me if I liked the taste of lobster, I thought he was gonna take me out for some fine seafood.

I didn’t realize I’d be spending the day foraging for my own dinner underneath slime-covered rocks in some river. I say some river because I’ve been sworn to secrecy.

I can only say it’s somewhere in this state or the one next door. If I gave up my man’s top-secret Redneck Lobstering digs I think it could go on my permanent record.

I’m not gonna push it.

Especially since I’ve tasted these babies.

Call them crayfish, crawdads, mudbugs or crawfish.

I call them Redneck Lobsters.

For the rest of the story click here.

More Sunsets

Something good that's come out of all that haze over the Prairie.

Sunday's Smokey Sunset

I spent the afternoon in the mountains picking huckleberries yesterday and knew we were going to have a fabulous sunset given the haze of smoke in the air.

It was a short-lived show, but it was fantabulous and it happened right as I was driving across the Rathdrum Prairie.

Here are a few of my favorite shots from last night:

Hollyhocks in bloom

My purple hollyhocks are the saving grace of my neglected garden. I love the hollyhocks. 

Class of 2010 Senior Portrait Specials!

Seniors -- Call by Aug. 1 to book your senior portrait session and SAVE big time.

Cheers!

T.