Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Tuesday, November 09, 2004


Here is an image of the northern lights I downloaded. I didn't take this photo, but this is the pattern I saw last night. It wasn't as green--it was rosy and light blue. Posted by Hello

I downlaoded this from a Scandinavian web site--This is how the "Aurora Borealis" looked on Sunday night, looking to the northwest at 10pm-ish. Posted by Hello

Sunday, November 07, 2004

Indian Summer and Northern Lights

This week on NPR we learned the supposed origin of the term, "Indian Summer." They say that in colonial times, some authors used the term referring to the shift in the wind that comes to New England in October or November. Just as fall begins to chill, the wind begins to blow from the southwest, bring a current of warm air to delay winter's onset. The Indians believed it was a blessing from the God of the Southwest (--??--a name that began with a "K"), so the colonists started calling the warm period "Indian Summer."

Well, we are having one of those here in Livingston. The past 3 late-Octobers I have spent in Livingston have had daily highs in the teens or twenties. The past 2 weeks it has been 50's and 60's! I feel like I've died and gone to Arizona--er, I mean HEAVEN! I fully believe we are being blessed to finish our build! We worked from 8:30 til 5 pm on Saturday (I stained all the wood for our porch, Rich helped finish Angie & Davy's roof). Ahhh--warm-ish days and cold nights! Hey, it reminds me of a Dream Academy song:

"It was the time of year just after summer's gone
when August and September just become memories of songs
to be put away with the summer clothes and packed up in the attic for another year.
We had decided to stay on for a few weeks more
tho' the season was over, the days were still warm
And seemed reluctant to five up and hand over to winter for another year."

And tonight I saw the Northern Lights for the first time! It looked a little like a sunrise, but it was coming from the north west, with wavy rays of pale blue in the dark sky. No funky colors or anything, just a glow. I wish I could go out to the ranch and watch away from the town lights.

But it's late. We've had a nice Sunday--a good fast, a good church meeting, and a good breaking of our fast with lots of good Italian food and celebrating Angie's (my sis-in-law) 21st birthday at Mom Melin's. We even watched Shrek 2 after the bday party, and now I've got my whole family to bed. I think I shall join them!



What's Wrong with This Picture?

Addie was watching her "Baby Santa" video from the Baby Einstein collection yesterday, and I noticed that the first segment is Santa and Mrs. Claus dancing to "Dreidl, Dreildl, Dreidl." Now, I am all for learning Hannukah songs, but maybe with menorrahs and actual dreidls, not Santa and Mrs. Claus, for Pete's sake! And this is Baby Einstein--as in Albert, who knew about dreidls!

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

I am so tired...exhausted relief. All I have to say is Hallelujah.

And James Carville is the devil.

And God bless America.

Campaign Coverage Nov. 1st 2004 (From Wonkette.com)

<<7:34 NBC. The Today Show: Head vs. Skull:
White House Communications Deputy Tucker Eskew and James Carville.

Carville: "The 41% of people who think the country's going in the right direction are the dumbest people in America."
Eskew: Kerry took a poll to figure out what he thinks about Osama Bin Laden
Carville: RNC feels "the noose of history tightening around their necks"

Carville jams in 40% more words than Eskew; Eskew looks 40% less crazy than Carville. >>

Tuesday, November 02, 2004


Here I am with my hubby at 8am with our voting stickers--the badge of democracy! (excuse the bed head, love the Flogging Molly jacket). Posted by Hello
Exercising Our Rights

We went to vote today before 8 am and I decided to take Addie (better instill civic responsibility early, right?). On the way down the stairs (out of the blue mind you--I haven't tried to politicize my kid) she said, "Mom, Bush loves me. George Bush will take care of me." WHAT!?! Even I wouldn't have taught her that! I might have said George Bush will protect us or George Bush believes in freedom, but nothing personal like that. What a cutie. She gave the lady who gave us the "I Voted" sticker a sucker.

At dinner, we ate Short ribs and Bush's baked beans, just like we did in 2000, and bread and butter. Addie stuck her elbow into her butter and cried, "Oh my gosh! Hey, can somebody lick this for me?" Oh, man, that was a funny one.

Ad had a late nap, so it's just me-n-her, coloring a map of the US with red and blue pencils, happy with all of Montana's election results.

Rock on...

PS: The kids from Floggin Molly emailed me today--they're so fun. Turns out "Ellen" is "Helen" so I change it in the entry.
Addie Funnies

Addie is starting to have a really active imagination and it's so much fun. I thought I'd better write some of her funnies down, even though some of these are "old" ones.

When I taught her to sing "You Are My Sunshine" last year, she would always say, "Oh, I sorry mom--here's your sunshine!" at the end. It took me a while to realize she was reacting to the last line, "Please don't take my sunshine away." She would pretend to gather up something from mid-air and hand it to me--here's you sunshine.

She is learning about death and the permanence of our family, too. She started saying, "I want a new mommy," when I reprimanded her and I told her, "You only get one mommy, so you'd better be nice to me!" Now she has translated that to Heidi.

She and Heidi were playing on the bed, just giggling and being silly, and Addie said, "Mom, I don't want my Heidi to get died. We have to take care of her and be nice to her."

I tried not to giggle and I said, "Yes, Honey. We have to take care of sister because she's a special part of our famiy, just like you."

"Yeah...we can't get a new Heidi. There is only one Heidi so we have to take care of her."

Yeah. Something like that.

I'm off to VOTE! Yeeeehaw!

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