[Nfbmt] I'm Back

Fri Jan 29 17:39:25 UTC 2016

Hi Joy and all,

If it isn't too windy, wander outside and soak up some of this big sky sunshine!  My phone is on my belt and my IPod is in my hand as I write this!  It is 44 to 46 degrees here but the sun is really bearing down!  Most of our snow is gone till next time! This would be a pleasant ending after your trip!  You will find me out in the patio!

Jim

Sent from my iPod

> On Jan 29, 2016, at 9:55 AM, Bruce&Joy Breslauer via Nfbmt <nfbmt at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh Rik, thanks for reminding me that there are a few perks to getting older.
> One of them is to know how to make lemon icies out of a little bit (or a lot)
> of snow.  Don't sweat the small stuff.  It's all small stuff.  It's a matter
> of attitude.
> 
> I remember reading an article in a parents' magazine once where somebody
> brought their little kids to a meeting at someone's house, and I don't
> remember whether it was cookie crumbs or something got on the floor.  One
> mother said, "Where's my broom?"  the other said, "Where's my camera?"  I've
> never forgotten that.
> 
> Everybody in the news is getting so uptight about how to protect ourselves
> from this or that boogie man, and saying if you see something, say something.
> People in big cities and sometimes in small towns don't see something or say
> something anymore because they don't have neighbors like the Mayberry
> neighbors that some of us used to have, where you share each other's lives,
> help each other out, solve problems over the back fence.  Many kids still had
> their original parents with them.  Since both parents often didn't have to
> work, or at least not at the same time, somebody was usually home.  We all
> raised each other's kids, and we probably knew or thought we knew or wished
> we knew too much about each other's business.  I don't think Mayberry was all
> a myth.  We have lived eight years in our present house, and we know one
> neighbor slightly.  Joy
> 
> ----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rik James via
> Nfbmt
> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 9:38 AM
> To: NFB of Montana Discussion List
> Cc: Rik James
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] I'm Back
> 
> Welcome back to Big Sky Country, Joy.
> Where a few feet of snow is just not what it is for the cramped city folks
> for sure.
> When they were talking so much on the news, it was interesting to reflect on
> years ago, and what life was like with a big storm.
> Life just stopped, and we played hard in the snow. And lived off what we had
> stocked away in the pantry.
> 
> As a kid in Ohio in the late 1950s and 1960s, I remember some real big
> storms. Yes, the roads were closed, schools were closed. But it was not
> panic. It was weather.
> 
> Our neighbors did things together. Helped each other getting a roadway
> cleared. Fixed the old fuel oil furnace that went kah flooey. And those
> frozen pipes? Yikes.
> Second thought, maybe it was kind of rough. But I can remember the fun parts.
> And not all this panic talk on the radio and TV.
> 
> And from the early 1970s to the present in Montana, same deal.
> 
> But little by little, expectations have changed.
> As a society we have evolved a consciousness that wants to maintain an
> illusion of control, and to be able to do and go where we want regardless of
> inclement circumstances.
> 
> The peaceful feeling of a good hard winter freeze, and the winter blanket of
> snow.
> Why, it's a wonder to behold. Why can't we just, just you know, just chill?
> 
> One winter, I think it was 1993 in February. In Montana, and here in Bozeman,
> there was this big storm that came through. Temperatures just plunged. With a
> 50 mph North by Northeast wind. From forty above to 20 below sort of deal. I
> remember being out walking in town around 10 in the morning. By 1:00 it was
> bitter cold. Peeled big chunks off paint right off of our house. And no
> primer or paint would stick on it for years.
> 
> Anyhow. Talk about your panic.
> We had some sort of friends here on a sky vacation.
> It was the early days of having that thing called the Weather Channel on
> cable tv.
> Their car's fuel line froze up. So they got all panicked and crazy. The
> described to their friends they felt like hostages in our house. They were
> addicted to that weather channel. I think it was like 4-5 days that cold snap
> lasted.
> 
> Well, we have never had them back.
> I might have gently suggested they might want to look at some of those
> fancier places nearer the ski slopes. Where they could have the Weather
> Channel on all night in their room if they wanted!
> 
> Ha ha. Good stories.
> 
> How does your nose run in a snow drift?
> Up?  Down? Sideways? Depends on which way you landed, I reckon.
> Where does this road go?  It don't go nowhere, it stays right where it always
> has been.
> 
> I have been getting lost a bit in Bozeman, trying to figure out where the
> heck I am.
> Which corner is this one?  The sounds are a bit different, too.  Trying not
> to hit a panic button. Trying not to break my fool hip on this ice!
> 
> GPS?
> What does that stand for again?
> Getting Pretty Strange?
> 
> Cheers, Joy. Thanks for going that extra mile.
> We'll fuel up and help turn our attention to our legislative agenda here
> presently.
> Bill numbers. Blurbs to spout about the why and how. And the urgency of now.
> 
> Rik
> 
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