That's my face most of the time on my cell. I think I'm getting deaf in the right ear. Our beleaguered and over worked accountant sent me a string of funny pictures. I really liked this one.

Is this a terrible myth promoted by the dog loving sector of the population?
We have 3 cats at home. Our latest acquisition, Becky's cat, Reeses, loves to climb into the bathtub to chill out.

The cat in this video has no problem with water!

What do you think?

Tort reformists pain attorneys as greedy, greedy, greedy.
Here's an ad that pokes a little fun.

So we've been in Great Falls for the last couple of days for a settlement conference.
Before we left Kalispell, my car had a flat and we had to get that fixed.

After various and sundries problems we finally got on the road at 3:00. Driving through Marias pass wasn't too bad in the light but we didn't want to do that in the dark on the way back.

Settlement conference didn't settle the case so it looks like we're going to trial in February.

On top of it all Thursday must have been a record cold day. It was -22 degrees at 8:30 in the morning. That day, the car's battery and break idiot light kept coming on and off. So I thought it was the cold and my battery was old...

Today we started home and the battery/break light was on. It stayed on....

After about an hour of driving, the car totally died.

I must add that Lee was driving and he missed his exit out of Great Falls to take MT 200 down to Clearwater Junction, so he had been on the phone for 10 minutes with Becky at the office looking up driving directions for us. Of course we were driving up and down hills - in and out of cell reception. I think he called the office at least 5 times within 2 minutes... What a circus.

Becky finally gave us our route to take. We were to take exit 226 to Wolf Creek. At mile marked 230 our car died!

So we called 911. That works good, praise God that we had cell service (we were on the downhill side at that particular moment).



The tow truck hauled us to Helena.

We're waiting now to hear the bad news.

The service tech asked us if we wanted to get home today....ARGH!!!!

There are no better distractions at work than when daughter and granddaughter comes to visit.

I always think sunflowers are happy things. Up close, they don't look so good but I still like taking pictures of them.



This sunflower is over five feet tall. I think the regular ones are always this big.

I think this one is a shy one.

I'm a chicken. Every time we get in bumpy weather, I get scared. It was a very bumpy ride over to Helena on 8/26/09. We got there just fine. For me it was too many minutes of white knuckle gripping the seat belt.

It doesn't help that a couple of years ago we were heading to Helena, albeit in March when we flew into a scary icing encounter. That was when Lee declared an in air emergency and his speed indicator in the Skymaster failed completely. We both thought, "This is it!"

Since then, we haven't really flown much and every time it gets bumpy, I get sweaty.



So it's good to land!