HAHA the mountain behind our house is ON FIRE. This isn't the view we get, we live behind the mountains, in the woods, so we're just seeing the smoke billowing over the backside. It sounds like hopefully they're going to be able to take care of it, but UGH FIRES ( Read more... )

I am still completely boggled by the fact that the democratic candidates have been bumming around Montana for two months. Hillary was in Pablo last week campaigning in front of our Native American tribes, Obama's been all over the state, and on Saturday night, Bill Clinton came over from Stevensville, walked into the Missoula Club (the Mo Club is ( Read more... )

For the past couple days, my dog has been Houdini-ing her way out of our fence and into the neighbor's yard, where she hangs out with their puppies, and I've been trying to find a hole she could squeeze through somewhere, with no luck. A couple months ago, she chewed through the wiring for our electric gate (SERIOUSLY) so we've been old-schooling ( Read more... )

I have to get up at a RIDICULOUS hour AGAIN tomorrow morning to take my daddy to the airport. My mom's in California right now at a business conference and she's got one in Beijing next week, so my dad took that as an open invitation to do a little spousal mooching and get himself an excuse for a vacation. They're rendezvousing in Tokyo en route ( Read more... )