Montana Thoughts

It seems like the Holidays bring on the end of the year and kinda go by in a flash starting with Thanksgiving. I really don't have any plans for Thanksgiving, but I do think Michele and I are going to see the "Transporter 3" movie. As far as dinner I have no idea. We are heading to Billings this weekend to see a friend that moved there a while back and do some Geocaching too. We always enjoy going for drives and now that gasoline ins $1.82 a gallon we can get more "Sunday" drives in. Our friends from Deer Lodge invited us there for " TurkeyDay " but we aren't sure what our plans are. Maybe just a few TV Dinners, who knows.

I know that I haven't written in a week or so but not much is happening in my life lately. I've just been relaxing and enjoying it. I believe the latest news was that we got to do some good Geocaching two weekends ago and I always enjoy that. This past weekend I stayed with friends in East Helena and helped them remodel their kitchen. I got the job of measuring and cutting all the wood trim. My Parents used to own a small woodmill years ago so I got recruited. Upon finishing all the measuring, cuting, and mitering I helped install a new kitchen sink and water lines. I'm happy to say that there were not leaks. Well that's all the highlights for now. Will update you all again soon.

This past weekend we hauled the last load for our friends Jeff & Barb to Deer Lodge ending a few weekends of moving them from Helena to Deer Lodge. We slept a little later than I wanted to and I blamed it on getting old, but we made it out of Helena around 10am. We got to Deer Lodge and unloaded the truck and trailer for the last time. We are all thankful that the move is done. We stayed and chatted with Jeff, Barb, and Tony, Jeff's brother for awhile before heading back to Helena to drop the trailer off and then headed to Butte to see another friend Julie. Julie is a friend that we've known for about 9 years. Julie is a very interesting woman who is full of life and energy. She loves to Hitchhike the country at the spur of the moment. We always have a very hard time catching her in Butte. When we do catch her we usually go and see her. We met her at a small little house that she was painting for a friend and chatted for a while before heading to get something to eat....

Sunday morning we planned for breakfast with Michele's ex-husband Harry at Cislo's , a great little restaurant . We ended up talking after breakfast for about an hour before employing Harry to grab the cache we spotted yesterday. After logging and having Harry replace the cache we all went and looked for another before dropping Harry off at his house and getting on our way. We stopped by and visited Michele's daughter and grandson for a bit then we headed for Glacier. We were thinking that we would visit the lower area's of the park because we though that the "Going To The Sun Road" was closed for the season. At the Ranger Station we were informed that the road was open to Logan Pass and that made our day. We proceeded up the road stopping occasionally to grab a few pictures and enjoy the views. As we got closer to Logan Pass we could see a huge cloud covering the Visitor's Center. When we got the Top we were in a fog and a frost was covering the a...

Just now getting around to writing about last weekend. We were heading to Kalispell to see some friends, Michele's daughter, grandson and parents for Michele's mothers 65th birthday. Michele and I started off at 6am Saturday morning leaving Great Falls and heading to Kalispell. We topped off the gas and headed on our way. We decided we would grab a few Geocaches along the way and the first cache was in Valier, MT. Valier is a sleepy little town that we often stop at for a stretch and potty breaks but we were always in a hurry and did not stop to enjoy the town. This time we stopped and got the cache and some breakfast. Our next stop was East Glacier for another quick cache, where we got help looking for the cache from the town puppy. In between petting the dog we found the cache and then we are back on our way to Kalispell. Since we were driving RIGHT past The West Glacier Entrance you know we had to stop by and check on the Park. Well maybe not Check on it, but we can...

Well the weekend is upon us and I am going to enjoy it. I got Saturday off so Michele and I are heading to Kalispell to visit some friends and see her daughter and grandson. Michele's parents will also be in town celebrating Michele's mother's birthday. We will be leaving early (6am) Saturday so we can get some Geocaching in and still get to Kalispell before noon. We will see our friends and have dinner with Michele's family, and maybe see our friends after dinner. Sunday morning we will get some breakfast and head to Glacier. We haven't been to Glacier as much as we wanted this year so we always try to spend a little time there whenever we're in the area. Hopefully I will have some new pictures on my photography blog because I got a new digital camera so I will test it out this weekend

Well my friends it looks like old man winter is in the neighborhood. We had a nice Indian Summer for the last month with great temperatures but now the leavs are falling and the temperatures on dipping in the high 20's at night and the furnances are clicking on. I really don't mind the winters here. It's part of the reason I moved to Montana, along with many others. I enjoy walking in the snow as well as hiking Glacier in the snow. So we in Montana are preparing for winter.