Category: N.O.S.
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Four simple holiday gifts
1: The Pasty Always delicious. Mix sauteed meat (ground bison is ideal) and onions, green peppers, cubed and blanched potatoes, parsnips, etc. Stuff into puff pastry squares. Bake and eat with brown gravy. 2: Bison Cookie Cutters Cute, whimsical, delicious (if your cookies don’t suck), and with an iconic American flavor. 3: The funnest T-shirt…
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Ghosts
On the Swan Crest looking NNW, two weeks ago. The sun actually came out today, I wore shades driving to appointments this afternoon. That hasn’t happened much in the months we’ve lived in the Flathead. I’m adapting better than I would’ve thought possible, years ago sunniness on par with Arizona seemed like a prerequisite to…
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Just a quick reminder..
I attended a nice lecture this evening, sponsored by the Glacier Country Avalanche Center, about weather patterns and their influence on our snowpack formation. I learned a lot of interesting things, such as why radar forecasts are useless around here winter*, but Stan Bones left us with the most vital thing to remember about winter…
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Enduring
What matters in life? A redundant question, as thinking that something would matter outside of life (which is to say, existence) not only makes no sense, but is quite unthinkable. Life is an echo chamber, where meaning is discovered like a skier in a whiteout: unable to see anything, the skier yells out, listens, and…
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Perhaps this weekend?
Trip planning is an equisite art. The mechanical side has, and continues to be, revolutionized by technology. Six years ago M and I lived in Moab, and quickly stockpiled USGS quads because they were the only source for detailed topographic information about most of Utahs backcountry canyons. That is no longer the case. Travis from…
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From Iowa
King the squirrel, riding high on the fat of the land. You can find it anywhere under the right conditions.
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The best brewery in America
Is Bell’s, of Michigan. This is not just a case of the grass being greener, as we don’t get Bell’s out west (yet). Everytime I’ve been in the midwest this year I’ve sought it out, and every one of Bell’s beers has been excellent. They’re mature, balanced beverages, rather than the more-is-better crackpot microbrews that…
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Early Winter
Harrison Lake. In the previous two years autumn has lasted almost until the solstice, with snow and single digit (F) temps waiting until mid-December. This year, everything seems to be a month ahead. I approve. It is a few weeks process getting acclimated to winter. The psychological and physiological aspects of cold adaptation cannot be…
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A walk in the park
Cottonwood leaves by the pond. Roses blooming in November. Trees. Not pictured, but caught on video for later; many loud species of ducks and geese. Woodland Park, a few blocks away, reclaimed from bog and hobo-squatting ground by the WPA. (And we worry the ARRA won’t have lasting impact.) The 30’s era pool has since…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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