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stories blowin’ in the wind :)

  • High winds!
  • Grabbed the door from my hands when I went outside
  • Made what was my carefully combed hair a literal “wind blown hairdo”
  • At the grocery store, parked next to the huge cart storage racks…
  • …had a snug exit from the car alongside the racks, could only open the car door with enough room to get out…but I made it!
  • After shopping and returning to get back into the car, lo and behold, I noticed that there was at least 3 or 4 times as much room between the car and the storage racks…weird…
  • …Then it became spooky…the car hadn’t moved, everything was intact, had locked it…then how did that huge cart rack move away?!  There were no carts in it…the wind?…someone from the store moving it?….hmmmm….sspppoooookkky :)
  • And that’s not all, when I backed out of the parking space, the cart I had placed in the rack blew out and rolled toward us, gently hitting a front headlight…did it not want us to leave?  And it’s not even Halloween :)
  • Grateful that nothing was damaged!
  • Let’s Count Our Blessings!

  • Watching the hot air balloon this morning…lovely!
  • Yard cleanup…raking leaves, pine needles, and there..some green grass :)
  • Cookie wanting to help
  • Ospreys…the grade school students contacting the cell phone tower crew so they could climb up and rid the Osprey nests of baling twine
  • Lemons/cayenne pepper/grade B maple syrup
  • A cartoon reading “Ice cream cleanser…is this a great country or What?” :)
  • References to National Library Week!…libraries, a comfort zone
  • GPa made his best apple pie to date!  It was super yummy and looked like a picture in a food magazine
  • Garrett’s mention of magnolia trees in his lists reminded me of those in my grandparents’ beautiful yard and home in the South…pleasant memories
  • Bloom where we are planted :)

 

 

 

your special day?

  • Do you have a special day, meaningful for whatever reason? One of mine is April 6.
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Sarah Calhoun of Red Ants Pants fame … watch her on YouTube, Present Day Pioneering…
  • …and enjoy interesting  and fun info about White Sulphur Springs, Montana :)
  • Snow shovels still out, well you never know :)
  • Recipes…my how they accumulate…purging
  • Our neighbor, Don, a WWII veteran…
  • …who will be flying to Wash.D.C. as a member of the Big Sky Honor Flight…
  • …it’s our honor to have him as a neighbor!
  • Endorphins
  • “Don’t miss the moment” -A. Huffington

London? Billings? :)

  • April freshness
  • Spring rain
  • Warm weather…visiting “over the fence” with neighbors
  • A locking gas cap
  • Pied-a-terre
  • 4.8 earthquake at Yellowstone
  • Yard sale ad saying “moving to London, everything must go” :)
  • GPa volunteering at the V.A. hospital…
  • …ICU/ER “we want him” …
  • Low Vision Clinic “we want him” …   (perhaps both :)
  • You know you’re from MT:  “If your definition of a vacation is a trip to Billings.” …
  • …which is so funny because Phil and Luann just got back from a vacation in Billings  LOL

Happiness :)

  • Be sure to look at Crystal’s link “time to draw” of March 26!  Happiness!!
  • Spatuletail hummingbirds…so beautiful!
  • Cookie needing to go outside right after her bath…it was so cold but we made sure she came right back in so that she didn’t turn into a pupsickle :)
  • Joel Osteen
  • Forgiving and moving on
  • Wildflower seeds
  • Seeing a tv poll and thinking of Garrett’s info on “confirmation bias”
  • Luann’s beautiful huge new 4×4 Ram truck…powerful
  • You know you’re from Montana:  an SUV or pickup truck is a necessity, not some sort of status symbol :) ….  and  … if you had both sunburn and frostbite in the same week :)

Silver

  • Silver 1 oz. rounds
  • Silver dollars…loved those silver dollars and when we had $10 our pockets had to be sturdy :)
  • Buffalo nickels
  • Dimes and quarters
  • Silver bells
  • Silver jewelry
  • Silver coins
  • Silver increasing in value
  • My Mom’s lovely silver tea set
  • “…Silver threads among the gold…”

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  • Remembering Haruko, my Japanese roommate from forever ago :)
  • Bookmobile
  • Cookie loves her bath :)
  • Poster of GPa’s Dad in his suit holding a baton, advertising his orchestra…
  • …  “Dance to Music with a Mood”  :)
  • Old, old, old phone numbers…910…7114
  • And all of the electronic devices available in today’s fast paced world
  • Windy walk today
  • Hugs from Becky
  • “I have time enough, wisdom enough, strength enough, and energy enough to do whatever is before me this day.”  -Martha Smock

  • Prayer
  • Freshness of our walks
  • Adjusting to DST…takes me about a week :)
  • Helicopters over head
  • Small fixed wing in the clear blue sky
  • Books
  • Maps
  • Veggie juice
  • Searching
  • lastbestnews.com

  • The freshness of our morning walk
  • Bursts of energy
  • Garrett’s reference links on WLG…thank you!
  • Researching various dog foods…finding one that Cookie likes :)
  • GPa’s visual aids…helpful in reading the tiny print on labels
  • Mountain Lion camping out in people’s flower box at their house
  • Handwritten thank you notes
  • Asparagus
  • What do you need help with today?
  • “Everyone needs three hugs a day to keep from being weird.” -Rita Davenport  :)