At sixteen I received a box of a dozen long stem roses. It was Valentine’s Day and I was sitting in class when a voice came over the intercom telling the teacher that I should pack up my belongings and go to the office to check out. My mom had called and I would be […]
With the recent Superbowl victory by the Saints, I’ve been thinking a lot about my New Orleans roots. It’s been 40 years since my husband was watching the game at Tulane stadium when Tom Dempsey kicked his unbelievable 63-yard field goal. There were 2 seconds left on the clock and the Saints had lost. Or so he […]
What do you get when you have a skier hang onto a rope pulled by a cowboy on a horse that’s running around a snow covered course? Skijoring of course. And they’re off! It’s Whitefish Carnival time and last Sunday’s skijoring championship brought out lots of rugged Montanans of all ages to watch the annual event. It was snowing, but the temps were […]
Phil saw his shadow this morning in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania forecasting 6 more weeks of winter. Last year on February 2, I wrote a blog post about Groundhog Day saying that the 2009 prediction was no surprise to me. It’s still no surprise to me this year and it’s kind of hard to imagine anyone seeing their shadow right now with […]
Saturday will be E’s 12th birthday and because I intend to be enjoying an afternoon of ice skating with her on Woodland Pond, I’m posting these birthday greetings today. E is the baby of our family of 5 kids. She shares this status with her older brother who is 32. Yes, we had a nineteen-year […]
Listening to Grandpa Davey reading “Weird Ben” to the grandkids via Skype last night was such a hoot. Sitting in his chair in front of the webcam with a blanket wrapped around him, he raised his voice and told everybody to shut up and began reading M and E’s eight page story that they wrote when they were little. I absolutely adore […]
Pictured on the cover of this morning’s newspaper is a man in a bucket truck cutting tree limbs. It’s captioned that he is cutting branches from a tree infected with Dutch elm disease. Crews will have to destroy from 75 to 90 of these majestic trees by April. What is Dutch elm disease and why is it named “Dutch”? It seems […]
I was going to talk about the average snowfall statistics in Kalispell as well as tell you that our average annual snowfall is 64.9 inches, that our season to date has only been 29.9 inches, and that our average season to date should be around 36.3. Phew, that was a mouthful! Also, I was […]
I was looking at some photos this morning to add to a Musing’s article and couldn’t find what I wanted. But, I did run across this one of frost on the window, which inspired me for today’s post. It’s not regular that we have ice accumulation on the interior of our windows in winter but […]
Outdoor recreation in Northwest Montana doesn’t stop because it’s winter. Saying that it’s too cold to go outside and play would mean we’d be stuck inside for months and be nothing but a bump on a log. Sure, there’s lots of hibernation and movie watching, of which Redbox has made quite convenient of late. Sometimes we’re sluggish when the weather outside […]
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