Have you started your vegetable garden yet? I haven’t. Every year I swear I’m going to start the seedlings indoors during the month of January, thereby ensuring a good crop and variety of vegetables. Here it is almost the end of March and all I have are a packet of radishes and bell peppers…still in […]
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Mallory Makes Lens of the Day on Squidoo!
It all started with an email reply to “A Walk With Us”. After receiving some pictures of my grandkids, I replied to my daughter Janice, with this question, “How did you do on your volleyball physical?“ She wrote back and explained that it was a complimentary physical for a health club and not for volleyball. She […]
Charles and Alicia Conrad: A Valentine’s Day Story
A bit of graupel fell overnight and, at present, a blue sky peeks through the clouds to the west. Darker clouds hang over the mountains to the east and we are expecting snow. Icy sidewalks are thawing out leaving slush and puddles in its place. It feels like spring and it’s cold. _________________________ February 18, […]
Today in History: Pre-sliced Bread Ban and Bread Pudding with Rum Sauce
Sliced bread from the grocery in Montana is different and I don’t mean in a good way. It’s not as soft and fresh as I am accustomed to buying in the south. Perhaps it is because there aren’t any commercial bakeries in town or maybe it is a regional preference of westerners to prefer stale […]
The Coldest Mardi Gras Ever
Just when I thought the holidays were over, I remembered Mardi Gras. I checked online to see what date it falls on this year and discovered the celebration will be on Tuesday, March 8th. That got me to thinking of my husband David, and the coldest Mardi Gras ever, which I refer to as sometime […]
The Little Red Dress – The Duffy Family’s 1891 Christmas Journey to Kalispell
“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Except for the Duffys Mother, Father, and five, So harsh was their journey Nearly frozen they’d arrive.” _______________________________ Christmas Eve 1891 – The Duffy’s Journey It was Christmas Eve of 1891 when the Duffy family […]
Old Montana Prison Featured on Ghost Lab
Last July, we stayed overnight at the Budget Inn in Deer Lodge. We were on our way home from Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons. Before leaving town, we had a choice; visit The Old Montana Prison or tour the Grant-Kohrs Ranch. We opted for cowboys and cattlemen, The Grant-Kohrs Ranch House in Deer Lodge, Montana […]
Snowflakes
It’s the time of year when watching pure white flakes drifting out of the sky is one of life’s simple pleasures. They brighten up an otherwise gray day and make a beautiful natural flocking on trees. Wilson A. Bently liked snowflakes too. He said, Under the microscope, I found that snowflakes were […]
How to Make Snow
How will we get the groceries home in the winter without them freezing solid? They’ll be in the bed of the pick-up truck exposed to the air! Won’t the cans of soft drinks burst? These were questions our southern brains used to ponder before we moved to the frozen north. Turns out the frozen north isn’t always […]
A Conrad Mansion Halloween
Let me take you back in time to an autumn evening in 1910 shortly before Halloween. Lettie Conrad and her daughter Alicia have returned from a dinner party and are still in their evening gowns as they sit in the mansion’s library discussing plans for their upcoming Halloween party. Little do they realize what fate has in […]
