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Old 04-03-2012, 01:48 PM
 
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Montana WWII heroes die on same day
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Old 04-03-2012, 03:20 PM
 
Location: Down the road a bit in Maine
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WOW ... So sad and so wonderful at the same time. God blessed them and now may they rest in peace.
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Old 04-03-2012, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Spots Wyoming
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Here's a website for you folks to play with. Once the map is up, go up to the top and turn on Photo's.

Kind of a neat site to play with. Sightsmap
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Old 04-04-2012, 03:46 AM
 
Location: Down the road a bit in Maine
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Default Hey EH

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Here's a website for you folks to play with. Once the map is up, go up to the top and turn on Photo's.

Kind of a neat site to play with. Sightsmap

This is cool !! How do you know all this?
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Old 04-04-2012, 06:34 AM
 
Location: Spots Wyoming
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This is cool !! How do you know all this?
I don't know, I come up with it in my sleep.

Actually, one of the other mods sent it to me. Somebody had posted it in one of her forums.
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Old 04-04-2012, 04:33 PM
 
Location: Down the road a bit in Maine
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Default Thought for the day ...

I hate when I think about people and what they do to our planet that we are just borrowing, but in all reality, we are killing it.

This is the most annoying thing people do to me (besides talk ... )

Most people including myself want to more to Mayberry, but the difference is, when those people (and you all know at least 1 or 50) get there they realize that they want all of what they use to have at the place they are now at, and then my friends the distruction begins. They add big malls, strip malls, or just big box stores and they don't stop until they turn what they wanted into what they thought they no longer needed and that my friends just ruins it for the rest of us who DON'T want it!

Why can't we all just get along and leave things they way they are?

Don't people know that less really is more??

I was definetly born in the wrong era !!

ok... sorry now I feel much better..... thanks for the ears !!

Off to make a good o'l BIG steak to make me feel better ...
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Old 04-04-2012, 04:38 PM
 
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I hate when I think about people and what they do to our planet that we are just borrowing, but in all reality, we are killing it.

This is the most annoying thing people do to me (besides talk ... )

Most people including myself want to more to Mayberry, but the difference is, when those people (and you all know at least 1 or 50) get there they realize that they want all of what they use to have at the place they are now at, and then my friends the distruction begins. They add big malls, strip malls, or just big box stores and they don't stop until they turn what they wanted into what they thought they no longer needed and that my friends just ruins it for the rest of us who DON'T want it!

Why can't we all just get along and leave things they way they are?

Don't people know that less really is more??

I was definetly born in the wrong era !!

ok... sorry now I feel much better..... thanks for the ears !!

Off to make a good o'l BIG steak to make me feel better ...
I certainly yearn for the simpler times. I don't need much...just food, drink, fresh air, frequent sunshine, the love of my dogs.... I love old timey hardware stores where the employees really know how to fix things and hometown diners....nothing fancy. I'm still searching for my peaceful place.
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Old 04-04-2012, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Colorado
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This is my 3rd attempt at writing this….it keeps doing an adios routine....

I had wind in WY., but no railroad arms came down, and for that, I was grateful. I pit-stopped in Sheridan and went down the main drag……saw the VA Hospital sign and thought of EH. I physically waved to EH when I saw the Acme sign….. While driving through that area, a local radio station was organizing a search party, everybody was to meet at such-and-such-market-gas-whatever for free lunch before heading out in Gillette…they wanted folks to call in to allow search parties on their fenced-off-private-properties…a 40-year-old woman was missing……hope they found her…

I slept in Billings the first night……stayed in a very nice Holiday Inn on the edge of town…..easy on and off…..was several stories and stood by itself, so was easy to spot from far away…near Cracker Barrel….. The lobby was huge and reminded me of Embassy Suites….

It was my first time alone, (on this particular route), and my first time driving this time of year. Did not expect the strong winds going through Livingston……was into it for about 15 minutes and came upon one of those huge electronic signs, ‘severe crosswinds, use caution’….well, DUH. Was not easy going through the mountain pass…..several 18-wheelers came over the line when we were on curves…..

Stayed in Marriott Courtyard on Reserve in Missoula for the first time……the place was extremely clean……I thought it was brand new and it’s 6 years old… Conveniently located in-between Wally and Costco, but it sits back on the road, kinda hidden by lodges closer to the road……you have to really pay attention for the little sign….

We ate at MacKenzie River Pizza…..the one by C’Mon Inn, not the one downtown……(so hard to find parking downtown). We’ve eaten there 3 times….I am not fond of yuppie pizza, (don’t get me started on CA Pizza Kitchen), but you can order what you want and get a ‘normal pizza’, so that’s what I do…

The next night, we slept in Billings again….only this time, it was not so easy to find…(all of my motels were booked on priceline and you get what you get)….in fact, I thought I was going to have a stroke before I found it. I stopped and asked a cop, (after his first direction, I seriously thought, ‘are my roots platinum blonde because he is speaking Chinese!!!!), and had to call the motel 2 times before we could find it. The streets are 1-way and sometimes the same street is N and the other part of it is W. It was on First, (I think), and it’s a 1-way and I went all the way down it TWICE and never found it…and somehow ended up in a residential part of town on 6th….my GPS couldn’t find it…..it was very stressful. The motel gal on the phone kept asking, ‘do you know where the post office is? How about the court house?’ No, and NO! (If they had only told me that it was very close to the very tall Crowne Plaza, I would have found it much sooner because I could see that from the freeway!) When we finally found the place (back entrance), I couldn’t enter because guys were laying cement and had yellow caution tape across the drive……it was a nightmare because I was on a 1-way and I needed to get to another 1-way that was not the right way….LOL! And when I finally saw the place, my heart sunk and I made plans to kill my husband for booking us there…..it looked like a place out of the early 60’s…(he said it had 3 stars and looked okay in the pics).. The Clocktower or Clockwater or something about a Clock Inn…… And when I finally checked in, the woman was turning people away, saying they had no vacancy. I was seriously dumbfounded because it looked like a crummy place……she said it is that way every weekend, (once the weather warms up), because they are near concerts, conventions and Red Rock (or Rim Rock?)….. After we entered the room, it was not huge, but very, very nice….what a surprise! Total remodel, I guess. We lacked nothing. I told my kid, ‘we are not moving the car until we leave, so we are walking to dinner!’. I was shocked at the tiny casinos on practically every corner…….and we were very close to Jake’s Steakhouse, (but we weren’t in the mood)... We walked to a Greek restaurant, which was fine…… The next morning, across our parking lot, (and I mean that we came downstairs and walked 30-feet across the asphalt), we ate breakfast at Stella’s and boy, oh boy! It’s a breakfast/ lunch place, but what a good meal we had! If we lived in the area, we’d go to Stella’s a LOT! (But I would make my husband drive!)

I guess if you live there, you are used to the downtown part of Billings, but to an exhausted outsider, it’s a back-asswards-pain…..

We got back on the freeway on 27th, (that part was easy), and got back to CO. late that afternoon. We had wind in WY. and at one point, 2 cops were in the middle, right by the railroad arms…..and one was across the road giving out a ticket…..I thought for sure the arms were going to go down….they were out of their cars standing right by them……but nope.

We saw bison, antelope and a flock (flock?) of wild turkeys…… I had never seen so many wild turkeys at one time…….it was in Buffalo.

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Old 04-04-2012, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Colorado
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In my earlier years, going through states such as New Mexico and Arizona, the Indians had small homes, many of them shacks with corrugated metal, no specific color, mostly light pinks or earth tones...desert areas....but they had huge antennaes (sp) and new, huge pick-ups, such as Fort Rangers, parked out front....

On Montana Indian reservations, I notice a lot of blue, turquoise or aqua homes, many with peeling paint.....they don't seem to care about fancy/shiny/new trucks, (maybe because of the severe weather), but what they love to have is horses.......so many beautiful horses around their homes.....noticed many painted ponies......such pretty horses.....
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Old 04-04-2012, 05:37 PM
 
Location: Spots Wyoming
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Why can't we all just get along and leave things they way they are?

Don't people know that less really is more??

I was definetly born in the wrong era !!

ok... sorry now I feel much better..... thanks for the ears !!

Off to make a good o'l BIG steak to make me feel better ...
Some of the long time users will remember this. When I first started modding the Montana forum, we had a couple users on here that were dead set against change. They absolutely hated it and were very vocal about it. One of them also said, "What I hate the worst is others trying to tell us what to do."

I told him, that he should get involved. Go to those city counsel meetings and voice your opinion. If you don't, the implants are going to run rampant with building things up the way they were, where they come from.

His response to me, "See, that's exactly what I'm talking about, trying to tell us what to do. It's our business, not yours." hahahahaha Huh? If you oppose the mall being built, don't tell me, tell the city. Again he came back with "Stay out of it." hahahaha

In my former life, I was a Process and Design Engineer. Few people know what a Process Engineer is, so I will explain. My job was to go into a manufacturing facility, analyze the operation and then set it up to get the maximum amount of efficiency out of it. Redo the production lines, redo the tools, redo the "process" of how things are done. In other words, when I walked in, there was going to be change. One company I did down in Houston Texas has an annual income of $40 mil a year. I went in and analyzed what the operation way, watched them build product and then sat down and redesigned the plant. The following year, they did $140 mil. Same number of people. Same equipment. Just a different way of doing things. As you can imagine, it was tougher to get people to change the way they did things, than it was to figure out how to set up the layout to make it better.

People oppose change. Me too. I hate the way things are changing around here. But I get involved and at least get my two cents worth in and make my voice heard.

I know exactly what you are saying about the new people coming in, setting it up the way it was back where they come from.

The key to analyzing an operation is to find the exact thing that is causing the most problem. It's like figuring out which Jinga stick is going to cause the most problem.

I have done that where I live and I have now figured out exactly where the key problem is. That is why I have said several times, "I want it to turn bitter cold and then snow about 40 inches." When that happens, I am going to throw a big chain around Starbucks and drag it down the highway, as fast as I can go, and head South. I would venture a bet that I would have hundreds, if not thousands of implants see that building moving and they would follow it down the road.

Starbucks is the culprit around here. It wasn't Wally World, it wasn't the dollar store. It was Starbucks. When they built the Starbucks it isolated the people. The newly arrived yuppies and people with summer homes immediately went to Starbucks and ganged together. The long time residents and yuppies stopped communicating. There became a big dividing line between the two. Eventually the local coffee shop closed up and now nobody talks to anybody else.

I blame it all on Starbucks. If we got rid of Starbucks, their whole infrastructure would crumble and we'd go back to the way it used to be. hahahaha
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