Fiction

I have a rash of thoughts today. They are kind of itchy and now they are going to ooze on over to you.

Wouldn't it be funny if a character in a movie would shake a hand or touch an object and get images that s/he believes real. And they are always really gruesome. But they are never true. Ultimately funny in an anticlimactic way.

Also, I am reminiscing about my childhood. Particularly the bits in Montana. Every time I think about it I get the same feeling. It is in my chest, like it is laid open with a brisk breeze drying it out. I went for one of my long walks (I do it every year) and thought about it. I get these feelings very strong when I set out on an adventure, a long walking adventure. Here in Montana if you go anywhere on foot it is a long walk. On the ranch I would back some water in a bag along with a towel and a crystal and some marbles you know the essentials and head into the rims across the creek and up the hill. It was a long golden brown walk. I would also walk the other way for the perfect hill to fly a kite on, really I could get my pink and purple uni-peg up to dizzying heights. Sometimes I think my childhood can be summed up with penny candy, crisp sun and walking down Livingston alleys. Today I think the main roads a bottle of water and a really long walk gets to the point.

Hey Courtney!

I never would have thought my blog would have been cleaner than The Daily Cat Chase, but here you go. I read her blog every day.

Also freshly ripped off from The Daily Cat Chase is readability of my blog. I guess this would explain my grades in my undergrad lower level English Classes, they could not comprehend it.



These both made me laugh so loud this morning that my husband came to investigate what was so funny. As I have said before (quoting Dorthy Parks "I am not great enough to be modest") so here is my other quotation:

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)

Thanks for the laugh this morning Courtney!

Yes Another Memory

Man! What a little Mabon!

Don't Forget!

Little Big Man has lots to remember. Today was a very good day. I have a total of 2 grannie squares done for my scarf. LBM likes to help! Helppa Momma Helppa Momma!

Blue Skies and Horsie Tails

This picture was taken on a walk yesterday, about 3 blocks from our house. I didn't show the 40,000 dollar truck parked outside of a 3,000 dollar trailer. Priorities.

Pintler Loop

On the way to Hamilton, MT we stopped to stretch at George Lake. We took the scenic Pintler loop.

Seriously Good Advice.

Livingston MT. Where it just doesn't go unnoticed.

Montana the Beautiful

Do you think my landscape photographs are improving? I just can't resist trying to capture the beauty I see here. But remember you can visit but don't forget to go home!

Links to Photos

Working 5 days a week is a bitch. I am tired and I miss my son and husband. So I am steeling some time from sleep to point to some recent pictures. Last weekend was a wedding that my husband was the best man at.

Here are my darling boys toes. Here is a plum. The outside of which looks like my hair color. Deep cherry chocolate. I am restless. I need a large body of water to splash in. I need a long weekend with my family lounging in warm water and padding around in flip flops and a robe. I need fruity drinks. I need a holiday. -- love, belle "wild eyed" manda

My new Toy! and more Fair

Here is my new toy. Isn't is shiny and pretty? I get to ride a bike again.

Park County Fair, Livingston Montana

The ----- dollar you ever spent. On the way to go to see all the farm animals I snapped this photo:
Can you see the Sleeping Giant?

In a Pickle

We are collecting the ingredients for the pickling party! We are using the method below but upping the salt to 1 cup. Can pickles be too salty? This is the Grandma Tiny recipe we used last year and they were delicious! Remember last year?


#41 "Sabra" DILL PICKLES Wash 4-5 in. slim thin kirby cucumbers (about 50). Slice in half lengthwise.Sterilize pint jars and lids.Prepare BRINE: Boil 2 qts. water, 1 qt. vinegar, 3/4c salt. Bring to boil and keep hot.Pack jars with halved cucumbers along with one dill blossom and one large clove garlic per jar. Keep brine hot!Fill each jar with brine (tilt/rotate to remove air) to 1/4in. Seal. Invert 5min. Stand away from drafts. [Do not process.] Makes 12 pints.

Moon Over Mount Baldy

Taken from our front porch last night. Mount Baldy is now known as Mount Livingston. I like Mount Baldy better. I hate it when they change place names. Unless it was truly stupid. Like New Amsterdam or Constantinople.

Sunset over Trail Creek Pass

This was the sunsent last night down the Paradise Valley. The sun was blood red. Aido kept calling it the moon and I had to keep saying "don't look at it because it will burn your eyes." Have you ever seen the movie Pi? I felt like I was just encouraging him to burn his retinas. I hope he has more sense than that crazy jerk.

Rear View

This is the view from our backyard. We like it.

Year of the White Tail Twins

Just because I like twins, particularly spotted ones with big ears.

Take Me down to the Paradise Valley

I present to you the Beartooth Mountains in the Absaroka Range. It is smokey here as the west is on fire. It makes for pretty sunsets and sunrises. If I can get my ass out of bed and to a camera I can show you some pretty ones from our windows. My blog will become one year old on 7/30/06. I am shooting for 200 quality (snort) posts. I only have 6 after this to post!

and if I didn't get the title song stuck in your head already:
"where the grass is green and the girls are pretty" oh ho, take me home.

Pronghorns up Mission Creek Montana

Here are some "antelope" or "speed goats" but I think the real name is North American Pronghorns. Lovely and delicate and man can they go!

Swingly Road

What do you think. Is it pretty here?

Twinsies

So my NEW CAMERA (for my birthday) is not a mega zoom. It is a Canon Powershot SD1000 and I like it. I am waiting for a 2 gig card to show up so I can take more than 9 pictures without downloading them. It has many neat features, but my favorite is that is seems to take great quality photos.


The first photo is a deer and her twins. It took all of the 12x combined digital and optical to pull that off and it is still rather impressionist. I like it, however because it looks like art. And really who can resist taking a picture of a horses bum? and my aido. I love the little poser, I am so glad he is feeling better and the antibiotics for his ear infection seem to be working. I hope what they say is right and kids go through all the sicknesses in daycare or in preschool. I hope he stays better for the rest of... well his life. I hate seeing him sick.