Category Archives: Life in Big Sky Country

Do They Know Where I Live?!?!?!?!?

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From MoveOn.Org:

In 2004, we had parties where we got together and used our cell phones to call voters. Folks told us they had an awesome time. So we’re doing it again. We know there are a bunch of people in [small town where Jen lives] who are interested in coming if there’s a host. Can you step up to the plate?

OK… I live in a town of 10 people, only 9 of whom are old enough to vote. Of us, I think there are only 3 Democrats. So… exactly who is this “bunch of people”?

(You know you live in a small town when the entire town and extended family get together to watch fireworks and y’all can fit on someone’s deck.)

Also… don’t you need cell phone reception to have a calling party?Â? Exactly WHERE are they getting good enough reception around here?!?!?!?!?

Smoke and Glass

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OK God… what’s up with all the stinkin’ forest fires?

Jen, those stinkin’ forest fires were started by the lightning you were admiring a few weeks ago.Â? Besides, the forest renews itself through them.

And the people whose houses are burning down?

They knew the dangers when they built their houses in the middle of the forest.

Tell them that.Â? Now how about sending the smoke west rather than east?Â? Or do you get some kind of sick enjoyment out of my sinus and allergy issues?

Quit whining and take some Sudafed.Â? No wait… you can’t take that.Â? Try a nice warm shower and those saline rinses that Tom and Dr. Amy told you about doing.Â? You haven’t done those in how long???

And exactly how do I do this when the water smells like sulfur?

My aren’t we full of kvetching tonight.

Well the headache from the lack of glasses isn’t helping my mood.

I’ll work on expediting the glasses to you.Â? In the meantime, read Psalm 8 on the majesty of Creation, take some Aleve for the headache, and go curl up in a dark room with your black creature.Â? Capeche?

Capeche LORD.Â? Amen.

Subversion in Montana

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My shirt from this post arrived today. (You can get yours by going here.)Â? Now if only I didn’t live in a place that was crawling with Border Patrol and Homeland Security peeps…

(I live near the Canadian border.)

I also know that I’ll probably be shot if I wear it in the state of Montana since we’ve got a BIG military presence (helloooooo Malmstrom) and we have kids from the Guards in every community who are over in the Middle East. As much as I oppose the war, it’s kind of hard when you are separated from a soldier in the war by 3 degrees or less.

*must get to California soon*

An Idea for Solving World Hunger

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This is the time of year when one locks their car doors at church because if you don’t…

you end up with tons of zucchini, corn, potatoes, peas, squash, pumpkins…

I have this idea for solving world hunger: send all the surplus zucchini to the starving people. This would work because zucchini is pretty hard to mess up and it grows just *so* well.

(Of course I didn’t just process two zucchini that were larger than my arms and one the size of a small pumpkin that well-meaning parishioners gave Jon. Nooooo… And of course I don’t have 3 gallons of grated zukes in the fridge waiting for me to bake them into a zucchini chocolate cake for Sir Sours. Of course not!)

Floating the River

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I “floated” Marias River today with the counselors and helpers from VBS.Â? I have “tube burns” from my inner tube but it was positively lovely and now I can say I’ve done it.

It was absolutely beautiful — I just wish the river had been higher like it is in the spring.Â? It would also have been good to have a waterproof camera to take pictures. Oh yes… the thunderstorm at the end could have waited a few minutes.