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Norma's Wanderings around a small section of Montana


Well, hey there!
Welcome to Roundup, Montana! If it's a nice day, we'll sit a spell on my porch and talk awhile.

"All the resources we need are in the mind.” Theodore Roosevelt, our 26th President of the United States of America.

Another quote I find interesting: "Creativity is intelligence having fun." Albert Einstein

What's on your mind today?





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March 10, 2021 at 11:21pm
March 10, 2021 at 11:21pm
#1006169


PROMPT March 10th

What artist or band do you always recommend when someone asks for a music recommendation?


I would recommend a classical musician. Mozart or Beethoven. I am that nerd that you fear.

There is nothing else I can think of for this prompt. I never was much for artists or bands growing up. I never even went to a concert in my life. Never.



March 9, 2021 at 8:46pm
March 9, 2021 at 8:46pm
#1006099

PROMPT March 9th

Write about the mythical or science fiction creatures/beings that could actually exist. Imagine a world where there was definitive proof of their existence - how would life be different?


Has anyone ever heard of this hoax? I found this some years ago. *Fairy* *FairyR* *Fairy3*

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies

This is the time of year everyone believes in leprechauns. And then there is the Easter bunny. And the tooth fairy.

I am not a believer in fairies or elves or goblins or ghosts. I do, however, believe in angels. They are mentioned in the Bible. i believe I have a guardian angel. Someday I will meet that angel.

March 8, 2021 at 11:08pm
March 8, 2021 at 11:08pm
#1006047


PROMPT March 8th

Where are some unusual places you’ve been? What was the most interesting or surprising thing you learned or discovered about those places?

https://www.pgm.org/what-we-do/programs

One Christmas we went to Chicago. We had arranged for a visit to Pacific Garden Mission. This is a homeless shelter that has been operating in Chicago since 1877. I remembered this place from a radio show they do called “Unshackled”.

We’d been donating to this ministry for a few years. So we contacted them about helping serve Christmas dinner. On we went to Chicago. After a night at an okay hotel, we walked to the shelter. Yes, we’re stupid people from Ohio. We walked through the worse part of Chicago to a homeless shelter. We volunteered some time. It was eye-opening. We helped clean a dorm, make beds. We helped serve the Christmas dinner.

Hundreds of people are helped every day. Thousands in a month. And at no cost to the homeless. Medical care, dental care, food and lodging. Amazing hope and help. We were glad to be a part of that ministry for a day.

After we volunteered, we walked back to our hotel. Again, through a bad part of a murderous city. On the way, we tried to find a restaurant open for something eat. Well, nothing was open since it was Christmas Day. Except for a Jewish deli. A crowded, sweaty, noisy and full of smells deli. Real chicken noodle soup and real pastrami on rye with a giant dill pickle. Standing room only. It was a great experience.



March 7, 2021 at 8:37pm
March 7, 2021 at 8:37pm
#1005986


PROMPT March 7th

Write about one of your fondest memories.


Seeing my son for the first time. We locked eyes across the delivery room. Love at first sight! Then later that night I watched the fireworks outside from my room. *BurstV* *BurstR* *BurstG* He was born on *Datejuly4*.





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March 6, 2021 at 10:59pm
March 6, 2021 at 10:59pm
#1005947


PROMPT March 6th

If you were given five million dollars to open a museum, what kind of museum would you create?


I don’t think I would create a new museum. All the really fun ideas have been done. Like the museum to mustard. Or the one to the potato or the banana. Who knew?

https://gocity.com/new-york/en-us/blog/quirky-museums-usa

https://www.loveexploring.com/gallerylist/76284/obscure-america-the-strangest-mu...

I think I would give the money to the museum right across the street from me. The Musselshell County Historical Museum. Perhaps they could buy some new doors. And a new heating system. Oh and I would buy new stuffed birds to replace the ones on the second floor.

Then we could stay open all year in comfort. I wouldn’t have such a hard time getting that darn front door open. And I wouldn’t get the creeps every time I go upstairs and am greeted by the flea-bitten birds.

Just saying.











March 5, 2021 at 11:05pm
March 5, 2021 at 11:05pm
#1005888




PROMPT March 5th

What is always sure to get you excited? What makes you irrationally happy?


Get me excited? Hmm. A good book. A funny story. An exceptional find at the thrift store.

But I think having one of my grandchildren contact me unexpectedly on the computer through FaceTime is the best.

*Computer*

It happened to me just the other night. I talked to my oldest grandson as he drove home after his shift as an EMT. We talked for about half an hour. He is in California. That made me irrationally happy.



March 4, 2021 at 5:26pm
March 4, 2021 at 5:26pm
#1005806


PROMPT March 4th

What is something you started doing during the pandemic that you will continue in the “post-pandemic” world?


I had a sleep study done last year. Seems I had some issues that made me think I wasn’t sleeping, even though the study said I was. So I had to rethink my sleep habits.

With a starting time of 2 AM, I had to go to bed earlier each week. Now I am now going to bed at midnight most nights. I now wake most mornings at 8 AM.

I guess this is now the routine I need to follow. I don’t wake at night like I used to, don’t toss and turn like I used to, don’t lie awake like I used to. So even though I was skeptical at first, this seems to be a regimen that works. It somehow retrained my overactive brain to relax, not worry, and calm down. Every now and then I have a bad night, but not as often as before. Plus I don’t take sleeping pills anymore.

No naps are allowed during the day even though I do get tired if I am in a quiet room for any length of time and sitting still. I do find I need caffeine more than usual to stay awake so maybe I need to back off on that, but not right now. It is daunting to look at the clock at 5 PM and realize there are 7 more hours to be awake.

So welcome to your new normal. Norma.
March 3, 2021 at 8:57pm
March 3, 2021 at 8:57pm
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PROMPT March 3rd

Do you have a green thumb? Are you a gardener? Do you want to be?

I took a master gardening course a few years back. That was informative. Sort of like being back in a biology course. It helped me to understand the challenges of trying to garden in this part of Montana. Combine a short growing season with bad soil and bad water. It all adds up to a big challenge. And those of you who sometimes read my blog remember that grasshopper scourge of last year. I pray our -30° temps for that stretch earlier in February were enough to kill the buggers. But if not, we are on the waiting list for some natural biological bait to kill them.

Now I hear that there is a shortage of seeds. We have some left over from last year, so we should be good. The only seeds we ordered were some heirloom tomatoes. A friend with a greenhouse will start them for us, then give us some plants. I’ll plant some seed potatoes, some kale, some peas, some carrots, some beets and then some tomato plants. We also have some asparagus plants and a raspberry plant that is only a few years old. Hollyhocks and wildflowers volunteer in the garden space, much to my husband’s dismay. He thinks the garden is a jungle and always complains about it. I love the chaos.

I worry that the cold spell may have killed the asparagus roots. We've been waiting for 5 years now to harvest them. Plus I am worried about that raspberry plant.

Another challenge to my garden this year is a sewer project we have scheduled for mid-March. We’ve had some clogged sewers recently and have been told we probably need to replace the entire line from the house to the city hook-up. Charming.

Guess where the sewer line goes? Bingo! You’re right! Right under the garden. In fact, right through the middle of the garden. So they will have to dig down about 4 or 5 feet. We may have to take out some of the 8 foot fence, but I pray not.

But gardening here doesn’t really start til after Mother’s Day or later. So I should have time to repair any damage done. We’re also going back East in April so I won’t have to look at the ravaged garden space for a week or so.

If you’ve never gardened before, my advice is to start with something small. Get a tomato plant in a pot. Love it, but not too much.
March 2, 2021 at 11:23am
March 2, 2021 at 11:23am
#1005666


PROMPT March 2nd

What kinds of things do you like to cook or are good at cooking? What are your comfort foods?


What kinds of things do I like to cook? Well, do you have a few thousand words to spare? I like to cook just about anything. I like to cook, bake, can my own food, freeze leftovers.

My mother was not a very good cook. I remember food that just wasn’t made with a lot of imagination. I like to take chances, try new things. I like to experiment.

I’ll go for stretches of time where I will bake lots of cookies and brownies and cakes and such. Then they’ll all be frozen. So we’ll have them for a month or so. Then it’s on to some new adventure. I like to watch the Great British Baking Show. Such fun and great inspiration for baking ideas.

Yesterday I made an Irish soda bread. A new recipe from a magazine. Interesting. It had no sugar or egg in it. Just flour and buttermilk, baking soda of course, salt, raisins, and caraway seeds. Baked in a cast iron skillet in the oven. To go with that we had coddled eggs, cole slaw, peaches and chocolate chip cookies (homemade as well). Nice dinner.

Coddled eggs? Eggs in little porcelain egg cups. You put the eggs in the cups, put on the lids and boil them for several minutes til they are soft boiled. Hubby introduced me to them when we met.

We plant a garden every year and enjoy eating the fresh vegetables from that. We eat fresh food every day. I really enjoy that now, and feel cheated if I don't have a some kind of salad daily.

I was diagnosed with gluten intolerance years ago. And lactose intolerance. Try eating with those problems. Add to that having no gall bladder and well, your diet choices just greatly diminished. I have to watch my carbohydrates - I recently have discovered I can eat small amounts of wheat, if I bake with Wheat Montana flour. It’s a local product - non-GMO. We also use Lactaid milk. And I try not to eat fried foods. But I have a diet aid to help with fat digestion. Whatever. I’ll not bore you with more details.

So, my comfort foods that I cannot eat anymore: homemade macaroni and cheese that my husband used to make and homemade pizza with a wholewheat crust that I used to make.

Some things I do like to eat: anything salty. Potato chips, gluten free pretzels or crackers, Doritos. Like they used to say, ‘You can’t eat just one.’ And as my friend used to say, ‘That’s because they’re sprinkled with cocaine.’

We all know that isn’t true. Don’t we? *Smirk2*











 
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March 1, 2021 at 3:06pm
March 1, 2021 at 3:06pm
#1005582
PROMPT March 1st

When you are old, what do you think children will ask you
to tell stories about?



I would hope children would ask about the time my husband and I went on an adventure in our RV. Perhaps we could tell them about all the jobs we had, all the places we saw, all the people we met, and how we landed in Montana.

I would also like to tell stories about our hiking adventures before and after we got our dog. Before dog, or B.D., we hiked a lot, some in Ohio, some on the Appalachian Trail, some in Yellowstone. But we did quite a bit in the national forests of Montana after we got our dog.

But perhaps I could tell of my childhood in Ohio. I grew up east of Cleveland in a small town. We led a pretty wild life, as I Iook back. Most children did back then compared to today. Running in the woods, playing all day unsupervised.

But I know a big story will be about the 2020 pandemic. Did people really wear masks all the time? Were the stores and schools really closed? How did you do that? What was it like? Did you ever get sick?

It will be interesting to observe what happens in the next year or two. We need to write down what happens to keep all this craziness fresh in our digital memory banks.

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