• Family
• Love!
• Ahh…Huge Hugs in person!
• Baby we can only describe in heartbeats
• How a baby is so alert and curious and everything in the world around is new
• Baby pictures of mom, daughter, granddaughter all looking the same
• Fun on the carousel
• Multi-colored ribbons
• Stopping the car and waiting for mama duck and her five little ones to cross the road
• Stopping again for a bear crossing the road
• “A Nighttime Trip to Planet Nuf”   Mayra Porrata & Crystal Pirri

Recently I’ve been thinking about some of the various physical types of sports and recreation…fun!…in which members of our family have participated…..

• Skiing..snow and water
• Snowboarding..snowmobiling
• Bicycles..motorcycles
• Golf..bowling..playing pool
• Sailboating..boat fishing..snorkling..swimming
• Football..soccer
• Dancing..fencing..playing saxophone..guitar
• Spelunking
• Piloting airplanes
• Camping..gathering and cutting wood for campfires
• Gold panning..gold mining
• Walking..hiking..mountain climbing..running

• September…song, sapphire, aster
• Celebrating a family birthday…Chinese food…laughter and more laughter
• Our neighbor’s beautiful gladiola flowers
• When GPa’s friend wondered what kinds of fish there would be in heaven…GPa said he’s sure they’d be catch and release :)
• NFL season is here!
• School bus kids: Simone is a Green Bay Packer fan…Colter is a Vikings fan
• The tag on an item:     “Proudly Made in the USA” !!
• The man from Wis. who won $25,000 in a MT lottery :)
• Am grateful for and appreciate the wonderful posts here in WLG this past week from Garrett, Carol, Helen, Andrea, Cheryl, Crystal Belle…Thank you!

• Have the deck painted..the right brown…
• …a cool and lovely day for painting!
• Weather now..heat on a.m. and a/c p.m.
• School starts today…
• …GPa’s school bus greeting to his “little darlin’s” of  “Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen” :)
• The little red schoolhouse that is now used for tourism and parties and gatherings
• Jimmy Durante’s song “…make someone happy..and you will be happy too…”
• Hearing about someone’s travels on the Glacier Park going-to-the-sun highway
• The boy getting his hair cut and having gum in his hair:)
• Belle’s CSW of “Your Spiritual Currency: Investing for Positive Returns”

• Happy 30th Anniversary to our daughter and son-in-law!
• Must have been “Schnauzer Day” at the groomer’s…
• …Pepper and four others getting beautified :)
• Opened the new paint can to paint the deck and what should have been a brown color…was a pinkish/mauvie/lightpurplish!….
• ….so we turned lemons into lemonade and painted it as a primer to be covered with Brown soon! :)
• Coordinating flight schedule travel plans with my cousin from TX to MT
• Lottery…a dollar and a dream:)
• Bakken oil fields in E.MT and N.Dak…
• …giving employment to many people
• Grateful to include WLG in my prayer list for World Day of Prayer.

• Fat, cute neighbor’s cat on our steps…
• …Pepper said hi! and ignored it :)
• GPa programming his GPS
• GPa’s fingers too big for his texting..uses a stylus
• Western Rendezvous of Art…wow what talent!
• Water rafting fun
• Enjoying every moment of summer sunshine and early morning light
• Tears of joy
• New beginnings
• Peace

• GPa’s new GPS and the patience he’s had setting it up.
• Low humidity…static electricity
• Carol’s 100th WLG post…Congrats!
• Dine in Montana…a real convenience
• Oh my! Saw a bright purple house with light green trim and multi colors alongside the front door…it was actually cutezee and wondered if it was daycare :):)
• GPa and another Vet exchanging war stories
• Palm plant from my sister
• Misplaced my granny prescription glasses…searched everywhere, even went back to the store where thought I might have left them…came home and reached down in the side of the arm of the recliner and…da!ta!da! there they were!!
• Gratitude!!

• Hooray! Purchasing my first Christmas gift for the season.
• The man with his St. Bernard
• Billboard:   “I’m a born salesman.”
• Happy planning
• Grateful for ability to accomplish many things…
• …checking off a long list :)
• Elk antlers in the bed of a pickup
• Haze from western wildfires
• GPa and I thinking of family while singing along with the car radio to   “Meet Me In Montana” by Marie Osmond :)

• Aug. 7 is National Lighthouse Day…what interesting places those lighthouses are…and a fun challenge climbing to the top:)
• Summer’s early morning light
• Helen and Garrett’s wonderful continuing gratitude expressions!
• An ad in our newspaper: “My honey bees have flown away..if seen gathering around your house or property, please call…”
• Opportunities
• Reading again Gary Zukov’s “Seat of the Soul”
• A billboard that says   “I’m Open for Business”
• Smooth and soft country music…no boot kickin’ :)
• “In our family there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.”   -Norman Maclean “A River Runs Through It”

• A convertible with the top down, license   “Good Lyf”
• Weather at 5pm..93 degrees/16% humidity/slight breeze/sunny :)
• Pepper’s squeeky toys and tennis balls
• State Fair
• New walking shoes
• Detective stories, mysteries, puzzles
• Paint for the deck
• Our neighbor watering her lovely flowers on her deck
• A cowboy riding his beautiful horse in the field near the side of the road.
• Another welcome message from Belle’s CSW!