I've been in Montana for more than a week. This is my longest visit since I graduated college and most definitely my longest winter visit since 2003. While in Montana, I don't spend time with a lot of people outside of my family. All of my friends from high school have moved away and everyone else has faded in memory. My social opportunities are pretty limited.
Here is how I've been keeping busy.
Feeding the chickens and collecting their eggs.
Last night, as I was struggling to put the chicken's water pan back together, Mondo and Bip ran off in the dark and started barking. Very vicious vociferation. They were standing under a tree barking up at a ghost coon. Obviously Mondo and Bip have never read Where the Red Fern Grows or they would not be so foolish.
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| even the chicken coop got int the holiday spirit |
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| this is a shot of the chickens through their coop window. it kind of looks like a 3-D sonogram or a georgia o'keefe painting. |
entertaining 4-5 dogs. I have Mondo, of course, and then his parents Rosie and Buddy. Plus his brother Bip. Every now and then, brother Rocco stops by.
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| he's not heavy, he's my brother! |
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| sleepy time tea |
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| I am judging you. |
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| Dog Party! Go Dog, GO! |
renting movies, and by default, driving 8 miles to rent the movies at the Redbox in Florence. it really is a pleasant drive. i get to look for deer and drive by the river.
reading
my reading list:
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
sleeping
Cruising the Montana Craigslist postings. This is by far the most entertaining. Here are a few Missed Connections, my analysis of the post is in bold
Missed Connections.
I saw you at Kriso Liquor on Christmas Eve around 5:30. You were very tall, wearing a black coat. You passed me in front of the whiskey, I was helping my brother pick a bottle of bourbon. I was driving the Chevy Truck and saw you again a few minutes after we both left at the light on 3rd & Reserve. If this sounds like you, what were you driving? I think your car is sexy and exotic. let's do it.
Hey "J", we played cards after the superbowl back in Feb 2010 at Hooters. I thought you had the most perfect lips I have ever seen. I can't put too much on here because we must be discrete, but if you see this, you will know who this is. You should email me and tell me how the evening ended. I'm married. Let's do it.
I have never seen a women so stunning and gorgeous. You are like a chocolate goddess. I couldn't dream of such beauty. You were in Dillard's wed night by the perfume area. Can't help but hope and wait patiently to see you again. Didn't think perfection existed but you proved me wrong. Please respond. I've never seen a black person. You were hot. Let's do it.
To the man in the camo loading his rig at the grocery store this afternoon, I gotta say its been awhile since a man has made me stare like that! You were also staring and don't think I didn't see you checking me out! If you happen to see this, tell me what store it was and what town! Camo is sexy! Um. Camo is not sexy. And this could be half of the people you encounter at a grocery in any town in Montana.
building fires
A fire for warmth, not for arson. In the wood stove.
I have a modified lean-to style. Today Mom told me I am a fire guru.
watching The Nate Berkus Show It doesn't matter when I wake up, or when i first turn on the TV, it always seems like The Nate Berkus Show is on. Which really just means I turn the TV on every day at noon because that is when the show is on. After logging 9 hours of interior design advice, I'm convinced more than ever that I really am a hobo.
This is my To-Do list before leaving Montana:
get my brother to change my oil, Jiffy-Jim
go to The Book Exchange
get a haircut
see The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Daniel Craig, oo-la-la)
ring in the New Year
gird your loins Portland, I'll be seeing you January 2, 2012.
(if you are interested, I recapped my blog from 2011 and you can click here to read A Year in the Life of Bry and a Blog)
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