2008: A year of the strange and random

Hello, everyone. Good bye, 2008. If you’ve picked up a newspaper basically anywhere today, you’ve seen countless Top-10 stories. So, initially I planned to do a top 10 of my stories for the year. But that seemed boring
So I spent some time today scouring all of your blogs from the past year to find what [...]

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This little piggy went home

This little piggy went home, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.
It might be hard to tell, but these are two giant pigs walking down Rambo Road near my folks’ place in Spokane. I snapped this picture on Landen’s phone as we passed them on the way out of town on Christmas Day.
My brother was kind enough to [...]

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Tuning into the sirens

Tuning into the sirens, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.

That’s right. I now own my own police scanner.

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Cat in the box

Cat in the box, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.

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A walk in the snow

A walk in the snow, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.

Our front yard.

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Snow-Tacoman from weekend

Snow-Tacoman from weekend, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.

Landen’s neighbors built a snow couple in the courtyard.

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‘Saving lives’ on the highways

Meet Gus Nilsson, 60, of Cosmopolis.
He is one of the oldest troopers in the state still on the roads. He has spent the past 37 years of his life protecting the highways. He also likes to log and fish.
I thought this profile story turned out fairly well. I wrote it sort of last minute and [...]

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Yes, Virginia, reporters still love Christmas

So as the bright, clean snow turns to muddy slush turns to black ice, and Christmas Day approaches, we are starting to run our holiday stories in the paper.
We love holiday stories. They are heart-warming and a little sappy. It’s a nice change of pace.
Every year on Christmas, we also run this 1897 editorial. A [...]

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Pool hall

Pool hall, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.
We sat out part of the storm at a pool hall in Tacoma.

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Don’t ask me how much snow Spokane has

You should probably ask these guys.
Just like last year, my blog is getting inundated with with people trying to find out how much snow Spokane has because of this post back in January. I can’t help you.
But we’re getting plenty of new snow here.
“It’s snowing really hard, like the North Pole, down here in Montesano,” [...]

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