It depends how you look at it.....

Here is something of real particular interest.

http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_16e6f9e4-d9fb-11de-b842-001cc4c002e0.html

Remember Huey Lewis the 80s rock star? I had no idea he had ties to Montana.

But anyway, a lot of my Y-net buddies are hunters themselves and this kind of act would make them mad. Whats actually happening is that the wealthy are using public lands and keeping the peasants out. Huey Lewis and some of his neighbors are placing feeders around their property to attract ducks, causing duck season to close for hunters mainly because the ducks are very close to people's homes.

I am not a hunter myself. I wouldnt hunt unless its for survival. I think my Y-net buddies do it as a sport or something to do to pass the time away. These Montana guys are really tough and rugged. But I like ducks. I wouldnt really hunt them unless my family was starving.

Happy turkey day!!!!!!

I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. I also want to list some things on here that I am most thankful for:

1. my family
2. my dogs
3. my friends
4. the Y-net forum
5. I got into Bozeman
6. top 40 music
7. when Timmyfan accidently choked on food, I am thankful she didnt die.
8. Timmyfan went through her recovery from surgery well.
9. Ocean Shores (we finally moved here)
10. chocolate candy bars, which I am craving some right now.

Way to go, couer de bois!

Oh boy! this is the last straw. Wolfmtnlady is really getting bold now. She said this to couer de bois:

Ya don't like what I say, don't read my posts!

You know what I think? I think that wolfmtnlady is a child or at least a 20 year old. She is a very ignorant person.

What can I tell you, couer de bois really let her down:

As long as you keep writing uninformed, uneducated, untruthful and highly biased comments about my home and neighbors, I will keep reading your posts, and countering your ignorance with facts and truth. If you don't like me always slamming your posts, you should try to write something that is not based solely on your uninformed and bigoted opinions.

I'm telling ya, these Montana guys can really lower the boom on you. I am not sure if this is gonna keep wolfmtnlady from the forum. I think she comes on here to stir up trouble.

Way to go, couer de bois! Thats telling her.

wildlife woes

Dear God, I love my Y-net forum, but some people on there can really be a pain in the butt. Such as the case with wolfmtnlady.
She has been a problem on the forum for some time. This time she is putting down everyone but herself. This is in response to a story about a man in Alaska who shot down 3 grizzlies, but his case was dismissed because it was an act of self defense, and everyone on the forum is angry about it. But wolfmtnlady is making accusations like this:

Very sad, and he is a POS for a human. But it is Alaska, they care nothing about wild life in Alaska, sorta like Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, they have it all, but could care less, just want to kill, kill, kill.....

I will admit that Palin may have a field day with this. But this forum has a lot of Montana and Wyoming residents that dont want to hear this crap.

How could she know about wildlife anyway? She's from Arizona.


Let me say one thing: states like Alaska, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho have less people and more wildlife. They would have nothing to do but save the wildlife in those states. Its all they got.

At least someone on the forum makes sense, like couer des bios (I'm not sure I spelled it right). He's cool and knows what he's saying. He's from Livingston, and who would know more about wildlife than someone who lives closer to the park:

Thats pretty unfair to say that,

"they care nothing about wild life in Alaska, sorta like Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, they have it all, but could care less, just want to kill, kill, kill"....

First, All the states you mentioned are the last hold outs for alot of species. Grizzlies, wolves, mountain lions, elk, and buffalo lived in alot of states in the 1800's. But, people in those states KILLED OFF ALL THOSE SPECIES! I'd say locals in the states you mentioned care more about wildlife, then most people in other areas....because we actually share an ecosystem with them, and get to watch and appreciate them regularly. Most people in the urban centers of this country could care less about wildlife, or ever even think about them. But, Go to any social event in Montana or any of the states you mentioned and wildlife will be a large part of any discussion thats going on.

Second, Why do you always fail to mention your own state of Arizona? As I have posted previously there are tons of poachers, and game law violaters down there- read the news. Arizona is filled with redneck, whacko, animal killers. Why not save your insults for your own damned state....because, it seems to me that they apply more to AZ and alot of other places than they do for Montana!

Thats telling her dude! But you know what, I said what I think about the people in this state when it comes to wildlife:

I am not sure if I can agree with either one of you. I would love it if my state would think about wildlife for once. We have lots of wildlife here, but I have seen more people trying to kill off all types of wildlife in WA than in MT. People are too damn busy here to think about saving wildlife. Makes me mad. Too many urban areas.

Want more wacko animal killers, they live here. Thats why my state's starting to suck.

It does sound a little bit much but it is true. I have the feeling that my family are the only ones in this state that cares about saving wildlife. But with all these big cities we have here, people kill animals and laugh about it. THAT REALLY MAKES ME MAD!!!!!!

Jack Horner on Sixty Minutes

Here is something of real particular interest.

Horner, Schweitzer scheduled to appear Nov. 15 on 60 Minutes


BOZEMAN -- A "Sixty Minutes" segment featuring Montana State University paleontologist Jack Horner and former MSU graduate student Mary Higby Schweitzer is scheduled to air Sunday evening, Nov. 15.

Meghan Frank, a producer for the CBS TV magazine, said the date is "pretty definite," although major late-breaking news could postpone the air date.

The piece will focus on Horner, his discoveries and his unorthodox approach to thinking about dinosaurs, Frank said. The segment will also feature Schweitzer, her work with Horner and her discoveries from an Eastern Montana dinosaur originally nicknamed "B. rex." The 68-million year-old dinosaur yielded protein, soft tissue, blood vessels and tissue typical of a female bird.

more of this article at http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=7733

todays fun

Well today I went out to help a lady who was delivering papers. I am really serious about getting that job and I want it. Hopefully it will help us through the holidays. The only thing is that I may have to quit when I get back to school, but its gonna happen anyway. I am graduating this year....finally, and hoping to make it to Bozeman next summer. I will have to work real hard to keep those grades up. I dont ever want to make another mistake like I did 20 years ago.

Anyway we went all over town delivering papers, even to places I have never heard of and seen parts of this town I never knew existed. It is really amazing that this person could really pay 70 dollars a day for this kind of work. Now I dont know if I will be working everyday all day, since I only put in for part time, but any little bit helps.