Cherry helps edit my blog posts.
I guess you'd call her the assistant editor because my friend Helen is the editor in chief.
I learned yesterday that Cherry's grandma and Helen's mother were good friends a generation or two back in local history.
Cherry has a friend named Libby, named for her birth town in Montana. She's 9-years-old and likes to look for frogs in the pond.
When Cherry takes a human friend out for a ride in her shiny red pickup on the hills above the hill where she lives overlooking Lake Pend Oreille, Libby gets special treatment.
Whenever Libby needs to get back into the pickup box after running around the family property, Cherry backs up to a hillside, and Libby walks in and rides back in the back, waiting for her next ground excursion.
Cherry loves where she lives, overlooking the lake and watching the eagles come and go to their nests in trees just west of her parents' house on the shoreline below.
A few days ago, she observed a large number of white swans down below in the lake.
There are gates to be opened and closed while going for a ride with Cherry. That pretty Quarter Horse mare keeps track if the gate happens to be left open and she takes advantage.
The land where Cherry lives was purchased by her folks back in the mid-1950s.
At first, they wanted to do some farming and establish their residence where an old homestead existed, but after spending a year at the house down on the lake, they dismissed that idea.
Cherry's house stands on ground which was once her arena. She was a 4-H'er, and she has always enjoyed her horses.
These days, after a career with a flagging company, Cherry does a little bookkeeping and just enjoys life and her family in the area where she grew up.
She also takes a leadership role in promoting and organizing activities at the Oden Hall, which is a couple of miles down Sunnyside Road from her home.
I had Cherry as an English student when she went through Sandpoint High. Like me, she's has and shares history here in the community. She knows the family trees of a lot of the locals.
It was a joy to spend some time with Cherry yesterday afternoon.
She had sent me a message earlier letting me know that she'd like to take me on a drive to some of the higher elevation points on the family property where expansive views of the Selle Valley and Pend Oreille Lake abound.
We both agreed that it was a nice day but that I may come back for better pictures on a real drop-dead nice day or two in the future.
In the meantime, yesterday's shots turned out okay, but the best part was just spending time and swapping stories with one of the area's local treasures and her happy canine friend.
Thanks, Cherry.
We'll keep on trucking through your property and you can keep on looking for glitches in my blog posts!
I really enjoyed the outing.
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My one and only babysitting job when I was in high school was for Jerry & Charlene. Thank goodness the little Fitzpatricks were well-behaved because I had not a clue what I was doing!
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