Monthly Archives: January 2015

Yay, exuberance! Even though my spirits still soar at times, I’m afraid I’m physically more like Sammy than Montana. Montana Moments Is it any wonder that she’s called Mo-tor, short for Montana Tornado? Mostly I feel exuberant when I’ve been … Continue reading →

Andy has been laughing at the weather reports we get for this area. Different sources often give strikingly different forecasts for us. But that is nothing compared to the weather forecast in Arizona when the graphics went haywire. My hat … Continue reading →

…time is a powerful force….. Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’ve ever been. The one constant … Continue reading →

It’s not only humans who know how to think. Typhoon, the youngest member of The Thundering Herd, likes to do things his way. A few weeks ago Hu-dad told the Sibes to “Kennel Up”, which means to get into their … Continue reading →

The weather here has again been unusually springlike for January. It was sunny with a high of 54°F here yesterday. We may get some snow later in the week, but it should be nothing like the blizzard conditions back East. … Continue reading →

Montana, with a little help from Torben, has been working hard on her blog. Here she is checking to make sure he’s transcribing her thoughts correctly. Yay, Montana! Yay, blogging! And thank you, Torben, for helping her, and Kaitlin for … Continue reading →

In a comment on Friday’s post, Ursula wrote, When you are in the thick of what life throws at you (good and bad) you hardly go into scientific mode analyzing “opportunity”, “how can I grow and learn from this”. Like … Continue reading →

Reframing is a way of changing the way you look at something and thus changing your experience of it. Rummuser did a great job of reframing recently. In Tantalus he wrote about a week full of disappointments. In Little Bits … Continue reading →

After several days of spring-like weather, Wednesday was a gray, snowy day. But the sun came out again yesterday. Andy plowed the road up in the mountains, and the maintenance men plowed the driveways down here. Even though the temperature … Continue reading →

John Hambrock understands political promises: Those of us who aren’t good joke tellers can relate to Elmo in this Blondie comic: And most of us would agree with Calvin’s father about sensational broadcast news: Has anything tickled your funny bone … Continue reading →