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Life Stinks

July 16, 2014October 27, 2014 Marlene Leave a comment Glacier Country
Green Box Site Sign, Columbia Falls, Montana

Life stinks. It’s smelly. It’s filled with odoriferous scents that make us gag, hold our nose, and turn our heads! Open your olfactory senses and inhale. What do you smell? Animal poop, human poop, vomit, rotten eggs, sour milk, decaying corpses, warm blood, garlic breath, stagnant water, body odor, dirty dumpsters, garbage, sour onions…the list is […]

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September in Review – A Last Hike, Grouse for Dinner, Harvesting Potatoes

September 30, 2013July 29, 2014 Marlene Leave a comment Glacier Country

Summer is always so fleeting and most often I feel I don’t do enough. The month of September created a sense of urgency to prepare for winter and do the things I wanted to do over summer, but didn’t get around to…like practicing more with my bow.   Our last hike in the park before […]

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Tips for Picking Cherries

August 8, 2013September 1, 2013 Marlene Leave a comment Glacier Country, Life is an Adventure

“See this little bud here, don’t break it off when you pick, it’s next year’s cherries.” Oh my gosh, what responsibility! One false move and my family and I could be responsible for the ruination of next year’s cherry crop! What if I accidentally pick off a bud – or two – or three? Would […]

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July in Review – Bean Harvest and Cherry Picking

July 31, 2013June 17, 2014 Marlene Leave a comment Glacier Country

In July, I seemed to be preoccupied with fruits, vegetables, and flowers.   The garden had taken off and we had a decent crop of green beans for the first time since living in Montana. I pickled 6 quarts of beans and would later process a number of pint jars, as well as stock the […]

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Hot Town, Summer in the City

July 10, 2012September 13, 2012 Marlene Leave a comment Glacier Country, New Orleans Roots

It seems to be part of the human condition to complain about the weather. Just a couple of weeks ago, people around here were complaining about it being too cold and rainy. Now the consensus is that it is too darn hot!   After a mild 4th of July where it was a pleasure to […]

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A Snot Flying Good Time at the Rodeo

August 4, 2011December 16, 2014 Marlene Leave a comment Glacier Country, Life is an Adventure, Recipes
Montana Rodeo Bull RIding

No sooner did we plant our butts down on the wooden bleachers did a bucking bronco, determined to throw his rider, jerk his way toward the fence that separated us from the arena. The rodeo had started off with riveting edge of your seat action and I was captivated. “You don’t even have your camera […]

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Do You Stop on a Trail?

July 22, 2011February 12, 2013 Marlene Leave a comment Glacier Country

I stood looking out the window as usual, sizing up the day. It was expected to be a hot one, but by no means as hot as what some folks have been living through.  As I stood there, I glanced at my garden and decided that I should pick some ripe strawberries.  I also reminded […]

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Glacier is in My Blood

September 14, 2010June 18, 2015 Marlene 2 Comments Glacier Country, Hiking
M and E walk down a grassy slope near Hidden Lake

In my article “100 years of Grandeur”,  I refer to Mary Roberts Rinehart and her eloquent expressions of Glacier National Park. She said, “There is no voice in all of the world so insistent to me as the wordless call of these mountains. I shall go back. Those who go once always hope to go back. […]

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This Year at the NW Montana Fair

August 24, 2010August 18, 2011 Marlene 3 Comments Glacier Country, Life is an Adventure

The fairgrounds are quiet and the Northwest Montana Fair is over signaling the end of summer. Folks from miles around came to traipse around animal barns that smelled of poop and urine. White mules shine brightly in the sunshine. Youngsters paid to wrestle with pigs in sloppy wet mud.  The teams competed for prizes. As […]

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Memories of Grand Isle, Louisiana

June 8, 2010July 17, 2014 Marlene 3 Comments Life is an Adventure, New Orleans Roots

Grand Isle, Louisiana is a town on a barrier island (of the same name) in the Gulf of Mexico. Located at the mouth of Barataria Bay where the bay meets the Gulf, Grand Isle is part of Jefferson Parish, as is Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans where David and I raised three of our kids. […]

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