Just a reminder that tonight's the night for Miss Idaho, Genevieve Nutting, to appear on the 2012 Miss America Pageant.
It starts at 9 p.m. PST on ABC.
Again, thanks to all who voted in the video contest.
It looks like Genevieve finished in the top tier of vote getters.
The question on some folks' minds is if the results are determined based on each state's population.
Guess we'll find out.
In the meantime, Miss Idaho did win a scholarship the other day, based on an essay she wrote about the meaning behind the four points on Miss America's crown.
It's been fun promoting her video votes and especially fun for Debbie, who's been receiving little tidbits of information from Genevieve's mom during this pageant week.
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Bill and I took another walk through the Albertson property yesterday. It was his third this week, and my second.
This time we walked the log across Gold Creek and set out into some new territory I had not seen before.
This part of the walk, some of it along a bench with a few rock outcrops, offered views of meandering, partially iced-over Gold Creek below and the Selkirk mountains to the west.
Unfortunately, a cloud cover had come in, diminishing the chances to catch any stunning light effects. It was also late afternoon, so once the sun disappeared completely, things were pretty dark and dull.
Nonetheless, it was a fun hike, and we even went to some places Bill had not seen before.
We came out of a wooded area to a big sandy beach alongside Pack River.
Fields and fencelines across the river led over toward the farms along the Rapid Lightning Creek Road.
Fields and fencelines across the river led over toward the farms along the Rapid Lightning Creek Road.
If it hadn't been so close to dark, we probably would have kept walking along the river bank.
On our way back, while trudging up a pretty steep hill from Gold Creek, I got to thinking about how our age group---especially women---are probably following a fairly different lifestyle from our predecessors of a few decades ago.
"I wonder how many 65-year-old women would have been out here hiking up one hill and down the other in the middle of January," I said to Bill.
I may be wrong, but it seems like our generation got tuned into fitness at a good time.
Guess we'll find out how much good it did in a couple of decades, Lord willing, that is.
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We went to the Blue Heron Restaurant at Samuels for Friday-night dinner with just Willie last night. Debbie's on the road in Northeastern Washington for Girl Scouts.
Willie was looking forward to some down time on this three-day weekend---after a grueling couple of weeks with three away basketball games.
Bill's looking forward to his Saints game today. We won't even talk about prayers on this one, since praying did not seem to influence the ZAGS game the other night.
Ouch!
Maybe they'll bounce back tonight.
Busy day for TV watching, so I'd better get out there and accumulate my quota of pedometer steps before all the fun begins.
Happy Saturday.
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