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In my earlier years, going through states such as New Mexico and Arizona, the Indians had small homes, many of them shacks with corrugated metal, no specific color, mostly light pinks or earth tones...desert areas....but they had huge antennaes (sp) and new, huge pick-ups, such as Fort Rangers, parked out front....
On Montana Indian reservations, I notice a lot of blue, turquoise or aqua homes, many with peeling paint.....they don't seem to care about fancy/shiny/new trucks, (maybe because of the severe weather), but what they love to have is horses.......so many beautiful horses around their homes.....noticed many painted ponies......such pretty horses.....
Very interesting observations. Different strokes for different folks!
Havent posted in a few days as I have been a little busy. Weather permitting I have been outside doing yard work. I have managed to take off the ugly lattice from the underpinning of the mobile home... now it just needs painting. Edged or dug a small trench to help keep grass and weeds from growing up against the underpinning. Did same around gas tank. Cut back some bushes, disassembled, weeded, and cleaned the flower bed on tongue of trailer and then restacked the stone around the flower bed.
Moved a few huge logs.. to use as decoration... moved a whiskey barrel planter..... That was a couple days ago.
Yesterday, I moved another whiskey barrel planter, dismantled another flower bed and restaked the stone... made it smaller in circumference and higher. Cut back the bush that was in it. Made a stone border around a small tree, raked up and dumped the weeds etc.... Also moved a huge tractor tire to back yard so I can use it in my veggie garden.
Today I am going to try to move the 2nd tire. Got to dig out the soil and use that in the other whiskey barrel planter, then try to move some more stumpy logs to use as driveway markers. Move 1 more whiskey barrel... and dismantle andother crappy L shaped flower bed that the previous tenants half arsed put together. Use that soil and cross ties and stone for my veggie garden walls.
Also gonna try to decorate my front porch for Easter...
Dont know how much I will get done today but I bet I make a huge dent in most of it.
Will post pics later when I am finished.
Some of the long time users will remember this. When I first started modding the Montana forum, we had a couple users on here that were dead set against change. They absolutely hated it and were very vocal about it. One of them also said, "What I hate the worst is others trying to tell us what to do."
I told him, that he should get involved. Go to those city counsel meetings and voice your opinion. If you don't, the implants are going to run rampant with building things up the way they were, where they come from.
His response to me, "See, that's exactly what I'm talking about, trying to tell us what to do. It's our business, not yours." hahahahaha Huh? If you oppose the mall being built, don't tell me, tell the city. Again he came back with "Stay out of it." hahahaha
In my former life, I was a Process and Design Engineer. Few people know what a Process Engineer is, so I will explain. My job was to go into a manufacturing facility, analyze the operation and then set it up to get the maximum amount of efficiency out of it. Redo the production lines, redo the tools, redo the "process" of how things are done. In other words, when I walked in, there was going to be change. One company I did down in Houston Texas has an annual income of $40 mil a year. I went in and analyzed what the operation way, watched them build product and then sat down and redesigned the plant. The following year, they did $140 mil. Same number of people. Same equipment. Just a different way of doing things. As you can imagine, it was tougher to get people to change the way they did things, than it was to figure out how to set up the layout to make it better.
People oppose change. Me too. I hate the way things are changing around here. But I get involved and at least get my two cents worth in and make my voice heard.
I know exactly what you are saying about the new people coming in, setting it up the way it was back where they come from.
The key to analyzing an operation is to find the exact thing that is causing the most problem. It's like figuring out which Jinga stick is going to cause the most problem.
I have done that where I live and I have now figured out exactly where the key problem is. That is why I have said several times, "I want it to turn bitter cold and then snow about 40 inches." When that happens, I am going to throw a big chain around Starbucks and drag it down the highway, as fast as I can go, and head South. I would venture a bet that I would have hundreds, if not thousands of implants see that building moving and they would follow it down the road.
Starbucks is the culprit around here. It wasn't Wally World, it wasn't the dollar store. It was Starbucks. When they built the Starbucks it isolated the people. The newly arrived yuppies and people with summer homes immediately went to Starbucks and ganged together. The long time residents and yuppies stopped communicating. There became a big dividing line between the two. Eventually the local coffee shop closed up and now nobody talks to anybody else.
I blame it all on Starbucks. If we got rid of Starbucks, their whole infrastructure would crumble and we'd go back to the way it used to be. hahahaha
Oh my gosh EH, I once lived in a town of 25,000 and it had three Starbucks within one mile of each other. It is incideous how they grew. I know they were modeled after the coffee shops in Europe but as soon as they put in a drive thru that atmosphere changed.
Yep alot of local issues are dealt with in the local cafe. Need more of them.
This is my 3rd attempt at writing this….it keeps doing an adios routine....
I had wind in WY., but no railroad arms came down, and for that, I was grateful. I pit-stopped in Sheridan and went down the main drag……saw the VA Hospital sign and thought of EH. I physically waved to EH when I saw the Acme sign….. While driving through that area, a local radio station was organizing a search party, everybody was to meet at such-and-such-market-gas-whatever for free lunch before heading out in Gillette…they wanted folks to call in to allow search parties on their fenced-off-private-properties…a 40-year-old woman was missing……hope they found her…
I slept in Billings the first night……stayed in a very nice Holiday Inn on the edge of town…..easy on and off…..was several stories and stood by itself, so was easy to spot from far away…near Cracker Barrel….. The lobby was huge and reminded me of Embassy Suites….
It was my first time alone, (on this particular route), and my first time driving this time of year. Did not expect the strong winds going through Livingston……was into it for about 15 minutes and came upon one of those huge electronic signs, ‘severe crosswinds, use caution’….well, DUH. Was not easy going through the mountain pass…..several 18-wheelers came over the line when we were on curves…..
Stayed in Marriott Courtyard on Reserve in Missoula for the first time……the place was extremely clean……I thought it was brand new and it’s 6 years old… Conveniently located in-between Wally and Costco, but it sits back on the road, kinda hidden by lodges closer to the road……you have to really pay attention for the little sign….
We ate at MacKenzie River Pizza…..the one by C’Mon Inn, not the one downtown……(so hard to find parking downtown). We’ve eaten there 3 times….I am not fond of yuppie pizza, (don’t get me started on CA Pizza Kitchen), but you can order what you want and get a ‘normal pizza’, so that’s what I do…
The next night, we slept in Billings again….only this time, it was not so easy to find…(all of my motels were booked on priceline and you get what you get)….in fact, I thought I was going to have a stroke before I found it. I stopped and asked a cop, (after his first direction, I seriously thought, ‘are my roots platinum blonde because he is speaking Chinese!!!!), and had to call the motel 2 times before we could find it. The streets are 1-way and sometimes the same street is N and the other part of it is W. It was on First, (I think), and it’s a 1-way and I went all the way down it TWICE and never found it…and somehow ended up in a residential part of town on 6th….my GPS couldn’t find it…..it was very stressful. The motel gal on the phone kept asking, ‘do you know where the post office is? How about the court house?’ No, and NO! (If they had only told me that it was very close to the very tall Crowne Plaza, I would have found it much sooner because I could see that from the freeway!) When we finally found the place (back entrance), I couldn’t enter because guys were laying cement and had yellow caution tape across the drive……it was a nightmare because I was on a 1-way and I needed to get to another 1-way that was not the right way….LOL! And when I finally saw the place, my heart sunk and I made plans to kill my husband for booking us there…..it looked like a place out of the early 60’s…(he said it had 3 stars and looked okay in the pics).. The Clocktower or Clockwater or something about a Clock Inn…… And when I finally checked in, the woman was turning people away, saying they had no vacancy. I was seriously dumbfounded because it looked like a crummy place……she said it is that way every weekend, (once the weather warms up), because they are near concerts, conventions and Red Rock (or Rim Rock?)….. After we entered the room, it was not huge, but very, very nice….what a surprise! Total remodel, I guess. We lacked nothing. I told my kid, ‘we are not moving the car until we leave, so we are walking to dinner!’. I was shocked at the tiny casinos on practically every corner…….and we were very close to Jake’s Steakhouse, (but we weren’t in the mood)... We walked to a Greek restaurant, which was fine…… The next morning, across our parking lot, (and I mean that we came downstairs and walked 30-feet across the asphalt), we ate breakfast at Stella’s and boy, oh boy! It’s a breakfast/ lunch place, but what a good meal we had! If we lived in the area, we’d go to Stella’s a LOT! (But I would make my husband drive!)
I guess if you live there, you are used to the downtown part of Billings, but to an exhausted outsider, it’s a back-asswards-pain…..
We got back on the freeway on 27th, (that part was easy), and got back to CO. late that afternoon. We had wind in WY. and at one point, 2 cops were in the middle, right by the railroad arms…..and one was across the road giving out a ticket…..I thought for sure the arms were going to go down….they were out of their cars standing right by them……but nope.
We saw bison, antelope and a flock (flock?) of wild turkeys…… I had never seen so many wild turkeys at one time…….it was in Buffalo.
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thanks for your travel update, hope the kido enjoys spring break!
GOOD MORNING!!!!! (6:26 am here in Libby and it's COLD outside!)
Did not do any yard work yesterday.. yes, I took a break... ran out of energy LOL. Actually it was a little drizzly yesterday and I had ran out of sinus meds Tuesday... so I woke up (actually didnt sleep worth a flip) all stopped up with sinus pain and pressure. Mom and I went out to the pharmacy and got me some sinus meds. Before I even left the pharmacy I was tearing into the packages like a kid with a Christmas present. LOL
We rode around and went to a pawn shop called New to You. They had some pretty junk in there and was a little bit over priced ( had some nice rifles too..I may go back later when/if funds allow and get myself a nice rifle.
Did manage to find a garden rake, a shovel, 3 phillips screw drivers, and a tool box all for $10.
Then we went to Rosauers supermarket and ate lunch in their deli. Left there and went to Ace Hardware and got myself a new pair of work gloves.. ( I actually wore holes in the fingers of the ones my land lady let me use. Now I owe her a new pair) By this time mom was starting to hurt a little (spinal stenosis acting up) so we went home. I watched a little TV and played with my games on Facebook then went to bed.
Today is grocery shopping day... I think we are going into Troy today.. Steins or Steinmart or something like that.. they have good prices on meat there.
I can tell its spring... birds are chirping like crazy.
@ Wurzig.... I really dont have a lot of energy. Just determination. I take so many breaks. LOL
I just hate a messy yard. Once I get mine cleaned up I still have to look at the neighbors yard.. ugh!
Loved your travel update. Sounds like you had quite an adventure.
Oh... and a group of Turkeys is called a Rafter. .... or A BIG DINNER. LOL
I'll post some pics of the yard. I should have took some pics of BEFORE I started. I did find 2 old pics that sorta give you an idea of the way it looked before so you can see the AFTER.
I also told land lady if she buys the paint that I will paint the underpinning of the trailer. BROWN!!!
Go to my profile and look at the pics
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So a couple of weeks ago I saw a huge rafter of turkeys. They were all up in the trees by the creek.
So a couple of nights ago I dragged the hubby out to see them. He kept saying they were up in trees??!
So we got to the same little park at almost sunset & there were 4 dozen turkeys or so..... on the ground. I think the hubby thought I was hallucinating. But then like magic... one at a time they took a running start & up in the trees they all went. Some of them seemed to have quite a time lifting their weight LOL It was quite a sight to see.
That's my turkey story for the day. Everyone have a good day. We have a storm watch with 100% chance of snow here. Yaaahooo!
This is very interesting......I put it in my favorites.......thanks, Walter.
I've never seen a turkey in a tree.
One of us will probably be driving back to Missoula this weekend. He can make it in 1 day, I can't. A week ago, 1-way from DIA was $1,300. Yesterday it was $1,000. It is usually $300. Not only do they hose ya at the gas pumps during a holiday, but looks like they hose ya with the planes, too.
The 8-day Jewish Biblical Festival of Pesach (PEH-sahkh, PAY-sahkh = Passsover, Ex. 12:14-20, 13:1-10 and Lev. 23:4-8) begins on the 15th day of the month of Nissan (that's the Babylonian 'Nissan', not the Japanese 'Nissan'), which this year, because it coincides with Shabbat (Sabbath), will be at 18 minutes before sunset, this evening, Friday, April 6, on the civil calendar.
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