MontanaMama

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March 1, 2021

I went ice fishing today with my kiddo.

My son is 15 and has always loved fishing but this winter, ice fishing seems to have really grabbed his interest. We’ve been collecting equipment...a hut, a battery operated ice auger, some new rods and a sled to haul it all. We didn’t catch anything today but we learned how to use all the stuff. It was fun! I’m grateful for the hut because the wind just howled today. Oh...and I saw my first ever wild river otter. WOW! I am so tired tonight...but what a good day.

February 26, 2021

Happy Fluffy Butt Friday!

My girls found a patch of ground with no snow and we enjoyed a few minutes together talking about it.

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February 24, 2021

In between winter storms...a beautiful sunset.

I live in a narrow canyon outside my town...the sun comes up late and goes down early so we almost never get sunsets. The trade off is a lovely wildlife corridor with a roaring creek that tumbles out of a designated wilderness. However, tonight we got a treat before the snow flies again:

February 16, 2021

The snow keeps on coming.

A birds eye view of my little neighborhood:

February 6, 2021

Time to weigh the penguins!

January 21, 2021

Traitor45 granted Secret Service protection to his adult children,

Steve Mnuchin, Mark Meadows and Robert O’Brien for 6 months. I know that he and Melanie get protection for life and I’ve heard that President Biden could deny that extra SS coverage for those superfluous people...I don’t know if it’s true or not. I guess the grift continues. Anybody hear if this will be allowed to stand?

ETA: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-granted-secret-service-protection-to-family-top-officials-wapo-2021-1

December 22, 2020

A giant in the infectious disease medical community has passed away. He was also my neighbor.

Dr. George Risi wasn’t a household name but his contributions to infectious disease research were immense...particularly HIV, H1N1 and Ebola. I was acquainted with George through his work at Infectious Disease Specialists, a clinical research practice specializing in testing vaccines for industry and government. Back in the day when my husband and I were poor as church mice, we participated in vaccine trials for H1N1, H5N1 and bubonic plague...we got paid for doing so. It was exciting at the time and helped pay the bills. Dr. Risi was also our neighbor. He walked past our house often and always waved and said hello when I was out front working in my garden. I noticed how thin he had become of late and worried he might be ill. He was, in fact, suffering from an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. He died December 12th.

From his obituary:

George wanted desperately to live. His greatest sorrow was that he knew he would not see his son marry, nor would he get to hold a grandchild. But he thought, at the very least, he would be granted the pleasure of seeing Trump marched out of the White House in 2021. That denied, he asks this of you: Wear a mask — they really do work; practice social distancing — sacrifice a little today for a better future. And, when it’s available, take the vaccine. Most importantly, he would remind you to hold your family close.

https://missoulian.com/news/local/obituaries/george-franklin-risi-jr-md/article_3d517381-f512-50e1-af49-9349d71da565.html

December 2, 2020

The Obamas Are Producing a Comedy Series About

tRump being a giant F**kup.

Millions of people spent the last four years longing for the soothing, rational, literate time in American history that was Barack Obama’s two-term tenure as president, a relatively blissful era compared to the blood-soaked, shit-streaked nightmare that we just went through. If there was one criticism of the guy who some fantasized would save us from the daily terror and just be president for life, though, it was that he didn’t publicly condemn Donald Trump enough until the tail end of the 2020 campaign (it wasn’t until September 2018 that the 44th president even denounced his successor by name). In his new memoir, A Promised Land, Obama mentions this, writing, “I confess that there have been times during the course of writing this book, as I’ve reflected on my presidency and all that’s happened since, when I’ve had to ask myself whether I was too tempered in speaking the truth as I saw it, too cautious in either word or deed, convinced as I was that by appealing to what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature I stood a greater chance of leading us in the direction of the America we’ve been promised.” Which is fair! But as luck would have it, Obama has apparently been holding out on us with the next best thing, something we probably could never have imagined possible until hearing the words “Obamas” “producing” “Trump” “comedy” “series.”

Yes, in news that will assuredly send Trump into an unhinged tailspin once he notices it, Barack and Michelle are reportedly producing a comedy series for Netflix “based on the chaotic transition of power when Donald Trump became president in 2016.” The show, titled The G Word With Adam Conover, is a collaboration between the comedian and the former first couple’s Higher Ground Productions, based on Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, which was born out of a September 2017 Vanity Fair article. The book covers the historic chaos and mismanagement that occurred in the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Energy during the handoff between the administrations. While Obama team members had prepared briefing books for their successors, among the Trump people who showed up to fill the posts, of which there were very few, basically no one was qualified. (You may recall that Trump’s first energy secretary, Rick Perry, thought his job entailed overseeing the oil and gas sector, when it actually involved active nuclear warheads.)

More at the link: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/obamas-trump-comedy-series

November 21, 2020

Tom Petty...Runaway Trains

November 4, 2020

How are my fellow Montanans faring today? ETA: And, other friends from red states

who are feeling beat up...

Mental health check in if you feel up to it. I'm tired...I know you all must be too. I can't believe our results. Weed passes but none of our incredible candidates get elected? We have a thug for a governor now. What a tough day this is.

I'm thinking of you all and appreciate every single one of you.

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