Big Sky Country

When I lived in Montana with Marie we went camping for a few days up in the Big Hole area. It is beautiful and peaceful up there with just a few very small towns and very few people. The fishing was good and the trip was most peaceful and enjoyable. The only traffic jam was a herd of cattle that I had to mosey through. Here are some pictures of the trip. Well, the fishing lady wasn’t there, I just thought I would toss in that picture also. He, he, he.
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One New Years eve (In Montana) we went up in the mountains and spent a quite night in the camper. It was nice and peaceful up there just talking by candle light and enjoying the heater. I won’t be going out this New Years either. May go over and keep Helen company for a while. Or have a fire outside for a while
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"Personally, I don't see why there should be such an issue over cloning. You'll get a few misfires, to be sure, maybe the occasional three-headed mutant baby whose father was a syringe and whose mother was a test tube. But why not? We can make them a special interest group, just like homo- sexuals, Puerto Ricans or Catholics." -Chadwick, Editor of Up Yours!
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Heard about the new gay sitcom? It's called, "Leave It, It's Beaver".
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While practicing auto-rotations during a military night training exercise a Huey Cobra messed up the landing and landed on the tail rotor. The landing was so hard that it broke off the tail boom. However, the chopper fortunately remained upright on its skids, sliding down the runway doing twisting, spinning 360's. As the Cobra slid past the tower, trailing a brilliant shower of sparks, this was the radio exchange that took place... Tower: "Sir, do you need any assistance?" Chopper: "I don't know, tower. We ain't done crashin' yet."
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Lipstick in School

A certain private school was recently faced with a unique problem. A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on in the bathroom. That was fine, but after they put on their lipstick they would press their lips to the mirrors leaving dozens of little lip prints. Every night the maintenance man would remove them and the next day the girls would put them back. Finally, the principal decided that something had to be done. She called all the girls to the bathroom and met them there with the maintenance man. She explained that all these lip prints were causing a major problem for the Maintenance man who had to clean the mirrors every night (you can just imagine the yawns from the little princesses).

To demonstrate how difficult it had been to clean the mirrors, she asked the maintenance man to show the girls how much effort was required. He took out a long-handled squeegee, dipped it in the toilet, and cleaned the mirrors with it. Since then, there have been no lip prints on the mirrors.
There are teachers.... and then there are educators.

Dear Diary: It was a good day yesterday, I went back to the trucking company with some tools, generator, and saw because there was an 8 X10 foot pallet there that I wanted. It was made of four 3” X 6” X 10 foot oak beams, not real high grade oak, but still good wood. I figure I can find a use for them, the boards where one by six inch rough cut oak, I cut them up to use for firewood. I also worked some on fixing up the stove I’m going to use in the shop, I’m going to put a heat exchanger on top of it.

Helen took paratransit to get her hair done yesterday and didn’t even ask me to take her out to dinner so she could show it off. She mostly just likes to sit in front of her stove in the wintertime.