At Slight Detour, Marianne Love and hubby, Bill, have converted this manure spreader into "lawn scape." You can see more "Late April scenes from Lovestead" here.

• Armageddon maybe? Nah/Bay Views
• On becoming 60/Brand X Ranch
• Poem: "Cure For Puppy Fever"/Gathering Around The Table
• Greater Cutthroat Trout: Weekly highlights/Get Out! North Idaho
• Beware of springtime hitches/Slight Detour
• More coming, more below

• 10 things that made me smile/A Butterfly Moment
• The torture building/Accidental Rabbit Trails
• Spring explorer/A Family Runs Through It
• Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Stefan, RIP/As The Lake Churns
• An obligatory -- and possibly readable -- post/Atmospheric Ruminations
• A Word A Day: pseudandry/Community Comment
• Specter is true to himself but who else?/Dogwalk Musings
• Free market doesn't exist/F-Words
• Plays in dirt/Simple Mind
• Happy May Day/Live, Love, Laugh, Hope
• Brain freeze/My Life's A Freak Show
• Internal bleeding/Synaptic Disunion
• Orphaned Thoughts/Tumblewords

HBO Numbers (for Wednesday): 7556/4239; (for Thursday): 7589/4790.