My friend and neighbor Boston is preparing for her third national Mustang challenge, coming up in late April.
So, yesterday I took some of the usual photos needed for Boston's application for the challenge.
This year she has a sweet young gelding named Cowboy, which came from Florida several weeks ago and will go back to Florida for the competition.
It's always fun to go to Boston's home because there are usually a lot more eye-catching activities besides each year's mustang.
Annie had seen something about the piglets on Instagram, so I was cocked and ready to meet the crowd.
Hard to adequately express just how cute and adorable those little babies are. So, maybe the photos will help a bit.
It seems like with every trip I take over there, something's moving all the time wherever we happen to walk.
Yesterday's headliners included Cowboy and the piglets and the dogs AND the chickens and a very regal goose.
As usual, it was a productive and fun visit. Boston tells me there are more piglets to come, so you can bet I'll be over there when that happens.
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In other news, this morning, I read the following article from the Associated Press, once again putting a national spotlight on Sandpoint.
As a native who's lived here for nearly 75 years, I can say I've lived through all the trends and written milestone stories about many of them.
That suggests I must be old.
When my mother came here in 1945, the influx included folks coming home from the war, many of whom had done their basic training at Farragut Naval Training Base.
A segment of the new population here at the time had seen the beauty of Lake Pend Oreille while going through boot camp and resolved to come back to spend their lives here.
Fishing "the big lake" also brought attention to the area and, of course, a few more transplants.
We locals experienced many years of relative quiet, with the town opening up on Memorial Day for "turists" and buttoning up for the winter after Labor Day.
Then, came Schweitzer Mountain Resort in the early 1960s. A re-discovery had begun.
In the 1970s, it seems that Californians earned a permanent bad name because so many moved here to escape high taxes.
Then, came Coldwater Creek Catalog company, starting from a kitchen-table mail order business and exploding into a nationwide name. The company not only attracted high-end shoppers but also employed urban professionals from throughout the country who liked what they saw upon arriving and many later finding any way possible to stay.
The annual Festival at Sandpoint, beginning in the early 1980s, also influenced the desire to live in this beautiful place we locals have loved to call "God's Country" because of its overall beauty.
As a writer for Sandpoint Magazine and as a curious journalist always looking for a good story, I always ask new acquaintances, "What brought you here?"
The most common answer I heard for years was an almost dreamlike musing, "I came across that bridge," referring to the two-mile bridge crossing beautiful Lake Pend Oreille into Sandpoint.
Well, folks, that answer is giving way to another.
I can vouch from firsthand experience of asking my stock question over the past couple of years that what is stated in today's article is definitely trending in this community, which just a few years back earned the distinction of "America's Most Beautiful Small Town."
This story will tell you what is trending as the reason so many people want to move to Sandpoint and to the surrounding area.
It ain't just the "God's Country" beauty.
After today's article, thousands or even millions of the nation's readers will know the answer, and, for sure, life should continue to be interesting around here.
Never a dull moment living in Sandpoint!
https://apnews.com/article/business-lifestyle-idaho-sandpoint-ade4fb13d865eb9f9b4dce6c4d944309
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