Category Archives: Life in Big Sky Country

She Moved Through the Fair

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We spent yesterday at the fair. We were there at 8:00 to watch our kids show their animals. I sat through judging on pigs, the finals of the market judging for lambs, and the first round of judging on steers.Â?Â? All my church kids got blue ribbons and some even placed in their divisions.Â? Granted, it wasn’t fascinating for me but I did get to hang out with my church peeps, have the whole showmanship/market competition explained to me, cheer on my kids, and get about a foot of my baby blanket done.Â? (No… I am not pregnant.Â? My cousin Joe’s wife Mary is with child and is due in August.)

I also saw the various crafts that were entered and have resolved to enter something next year, if for no other reason than I could probably do pretty well.Â? All the crocheted items were things I could make and it would be kind of cool to enter something and have that experience.

The other plus: Greek food! I had a gyro with extra tzatzaki sauce for dinner and baklava for dessert.Â? It wasn’t half as good as the stuff at St. Basil’s Greek festival but it was still pretty good!

Patience Was Never My Strong Suit…

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Since some of you know about my flirtation with Orthodoxy, I’ll let you in on my search stuff.Â? I ordered a copy of Facing East: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy a few days ago and they claim they shipped it on Monday.Â? Granted, it’s going Media Mail so it could be awhile but I’m still haunting the mailbbox daily for a key to one of the big boxes (since I have a tiny PO box as we have no mail delivery where I live) or for a padded mailing envelope.

Tomorrow is Maria’s Fair (the county fair for the surrounding 4 counties) and we’ll be there bright and early. (*grumble* I have to be up at 6 freaking 45 on my day off.Â? *grumble*)Â? I’m excited though to see what people are entering, especially my church kids.Â? I’ll be looking at sewing, swine, steers, rocketry, crafts, and a whole lot more.Â? I loved fair when we lived in Minnesota so I’m excited for tomorrow.

My First Pouncing Experience

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I just killed my first mouse.Â? I’m having serious karmic issues with this.

You see… my cats were refusing to listen to my shrieks of “KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT!!!!!!!!” and I had to take matters into my own hands.Â? (It distresses me muchly when they play with their food.)Â? I got a yogurt container, trapped the varmint under it, put the top on, took it outside, and stomped on it.Â? When I looked inside, the creature was breathing heavily.Â? I think it probably hemmorhaged to death.

I am feeling extreme guilt over the taking of another creature’s life, even if said creature would have spread bubonic plague or Hanta virus throughout my house.Â? I think this is why I couldn’t hunt and why I should really be a vegetarian…

You Know You Live in Rural Montana When…

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the entire town gathers to watch/shoot off fireworks and you fit on someone’s deck.Â? :)Â? (OK… we had maybe 8-10 people overflowing into lawnchairs on the ground too.)

It was definitely fun despite some of the fireworks not getting enough height before exploding.Â? We ended up running for cover and having to stomp out fires a few times.Â? Afterwards, we had dessert: 4 kinds of ice cream (we were joking that someone beat up the Schwan’s man and stole his cache), spice cake, cookies, and jello (we were all Lutherans after all).

Independence Day

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Happy Independence Day to all my Yankee readers.

I was at a Farmer’s Union BBQ for lunch and I’ll go shoot off fireworks with neighbors when the sun sets.Â? (Yes, we can have fireworks.Â? This is Montana.Â? The only thing not allowed are cruise missiles.)

It’s been a restful day which is good — I accidentally worked 30 mins of overtime yesterday, so I’ll have to take a long lunch tomorrow.Â? (I’m not supposed to go over my allotted hours but hopefully I’m not going to be in too much trouble for it.)Â? At least my 30 minutes of overtime accomplished my part in a project that we’ve been working on at the clinic…

That’s pretty much all that’s going on other than being finished (finally!) with translations for the Blogathon.