Category Archives: Life in Big Sky Country

Freezing Body Parts Off

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We had serious frost yesterday morning so I had to go scrape the car off while Jon was doing the 8:00 service.Â? This is a tip: do not scrape ice off a car with an expired credit card unless you have mittens on.Â? My fingers were not happy with me.

After two worship services, I went to the local prison and worshipped with Jon.Â? It was interesting going into the prison after seeing all the MSNBC shows.Â? Chapel started late because the count was late but it was awesome.Â? Probably 30-40 guys showed up and we all had a great worship time despite not having musicians and having to sing acapella.Â? I’m going through training in November to be a religious volunteer.

I had a dream about going to Nebraska for some strange reason last night.Â? I think I’ve been listening to too much Lime n’ Violet.

What I’m Hearing…

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Rick Santorum is trailing his opponent by 12 percentage points.

Thank you Lord.

The GOP is essentially giving up on Mike DeWine’s campaign.

Again… thank you Lord.

Now if we can only get Conrad Burns OUT of office.Â? (You’d think that participation in the Jack Abramoff scandal would be enough to not be re-elected.Â? Unfortunately, there are people in this state who are not that bright.Â? Let’s call them “die-hard Republicans”.)

I Guess We’re Skipping Fall?

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The weather yesterday was lovely — 60 was the high around here.Â? Today, I think it got up to 45 and was really rainy and windy.Â? (I slept soooooo well because it was just “stay in bed” weather.)Â? Saturday: THEY’RE FORCASTING SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!Â? (I probably wouldn’t care except that Jon has a funeral and going out in the graveyard when it’s that cold is just miserable.)

Next week, it’s supposed to be 55-60 during the day with highs of 35(!!!!!) at night.Â? I guess the Almighty is compensating for it being so bloody hot this summer and harvest being a month early!

Sportsmanship

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I went to the junior high basketball game tonight.Â? It turns out that the town I used to work in was playing the team which has some of my church kids on it so… cheering was *interesting*.Â? (On a happier note, I got hugs from the people I worked with who were at the game, including my former co-receptionist.)

Something that really impressed me: the girls were just very good about their sportsmanship.Â? People *did* get elbowed and tripped and all that but they’d help each other up even if the person was from the other team.Â? That was just wonderful to see because I remember seeing almost bloodshed at games in Minnesota.Â? I was quite proud of them, especially my church kids who behaved themselves so well on the court.