Distant and vague memories.
That's what always overcomes me whenever we drive to Talache Landing. It's on the west side of the Lake Pend Oreille's main channel.
One of my memories involves Talache Lodge.
I'm pretty sure I went there once with our family when our Great Uncle George Brown and his wife came to Sandpoint from Chicago.
I think he had come West to purchase some white pine for his wood products business.
While the couple were in Sandpoint, it seems to me that we joined them at Talache Lodge for dinner.
Older brothers could probably correct me.
It's all very vague in my mind because I was probably no more than 5 years old at the time.
Another vague snippet in my Talache memory involves the fact that my mother may have discussed with local attorney and real estate man named Glenn Bandelin the possibility of purchasing some land in that general area.
She chose, instead, to purchase our then 40-acre farm on North Boyer from Howard and Fern Balch. It was known as Fernwood Ranch at the time.
Anyway, those memories remain pretty foggy, even though they are always resurrected when we make the drive.
There may be more facts to be known about them, but sadly the sources who could help me connect the dots are no longer alive.
Yesterday, once we arrived at the landing, drove past some surveyors at work and had the dogs on leash ready for a walk, we met up with the only other person there, Larry Vest. He was out with his metal detector.
It had been a long time since I'd seen Larry and did not recognize him until he asked if I was Marianne Love.
Larry graduated from Sandpoint High School in the 1970s. He now has his own tile business, but Bill and he also enjoyed comparing some Forest Service notes, as each worked at the Bonners Ferry Ranger District at the same time in the '70s.
It was fun visiting with Larry who grew up at Talache, and whose stepfather was Glenn Bandelin.
Usually, Talache provides somewhat of a banana belt in the cold of winter, but yesterday, it was cold, cloudy, still and fairly silent, except for the noise we were making while walking along the shoreline with the dogs.
Even with the cold, however, we enjoyed the change of scenery and the beauty of the lake and the mountains.
I also was happy for little Foster who had some mostly wide open spaces to walk and sniff without bumping into anything.
In the meantime, Bridie enjoyed adventuring, running up trails and even thinking she could climb around in a big rock outgrowth next to the lake.
I suggested to her that might not be a good idea. She seemed to instantly understand and immediately left that area. BC's are SO smart and seem, at times, to understand every word we utter.
Talache provide us with a good outing for a blah January day.
Today, Bill has a meeting, and Laurie will be riding CB this afternoon.
So, our days are scheduled, and it's GAME DAY for Gonzaga.
So, we'll be watching KHQ Channel 6 as the ZAGS (19-1) take on the Pepperdine Waves in the Kennel.
Hopefully tonight will mean another 20-win season for Coach Mark Few. So far, he's accomplished that every single season since he began coaching Gonzaga in 1999-2000.
Tip off for tonight's game is at 6 p.m. PST.
GO, ZAGS !!!
🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
Turkeys in the road.
We noticed that most of them chose to turn left rather than right.
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