Category: The Homestead
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Confusion
I just don't get it. I'm probable going to get people jumping in the middle of me, but I just don't get this Veterans Day thing. Don't get me wrong, I thank everyone who appreciated my military service and thanked me today, but why do we have this day? I've heard/read that we need to…
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Worm
I read the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/11/10/build/business/30-have-uheard.inc" target="_blank">Have you Heard</a> column by Jan Falstad this morning and was as puzzled as she was about the Pay-Pal E-mail she mentions.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>A telephone operator named Vicky, who declined to give her last name, says the scam started about 8 a.m. Tuesday morning and the calls were coming in…
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Memory
Sometimes my memory doesn't work, I could say like it used to but it never was great, and when I saw a news headline this morning it pinged my memory but I can't remember all the details.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=237824" target="_blank">Bottom-Dwelling Marine Life Found in Ga.</a><br />n<br />nThis headline brought up in my mind an…
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Blogs
Has anybody else noticed the new Gazette Page listing <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/elements/blogs.php" target="_blank">all Gazette blogs and showing all Montana Bloggers</a>? As I tell my son, pretty spiffy.<br />n<br />n<b>Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an…
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Hatred
Sometimes it takes a while for me to clarify my thoughts and this has been one of them. I was just so distressed by everything I had been reading it hurt me. I finally clarified in my head what was wrong. HATRED. The sheer hatred I was seeing hurt me deep in my soul and…
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Sad
The hatred and loathing I am seeing out there in weblogs is appalling. I read weblog after weblog that is tells me the American public are idiots for the way they voted and use some of the vilest language describing the President. A lot of them say they are justified in doing this by the…
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Boys
What can I say this morning? My prediction didn't turn out yet. What should I talk about? <br />n<br />n1. The disaster for Montana with a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/11/03/build/state/25-gov-race.inc" target="_blank">Schweitzer</a> win? Well at least there will now be cheap drugs flowing over the border from Canada to keep the people in a drug stupor. By the…
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Prediction
I will give you my prediction for this evening.<br />n<br />n<!–more–><br />n<br />nIt will rain tonight. It is finally starting to get dry enough I can get the rest of these calves out of here and think about getting hay into the place. That definitly means it's going to rain.<br />n<br />n<b>Prediction is very difficult,…
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Tired
Non Illegitimus Carborundum. You know it sounds real good but when they keep beating you down it's hard. I'm tired of fighting them.<br />n<br />n<b>I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Fannie Lou Hamer</b>
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Congratulations
Somehow Mike Lee Pulled ahead of Adriano Moraes and managed to win not only the <a href="http://www.pbrnow.com/" target="_blank">PBR</a> finals but the PBR world Championship too. In one fell swoop he won over $1.5 million dollars. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!<br />n<br />n<b>Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. Yogi Berra</b>