DUers in Montana

[Ptah]

I know how you do it.







I'm too much of a weather wimp to move back home.

:grouphug:

[ironflange]

1. i will be a montana duer this weekend

but just for a couple of days
going down to do some shopping thanks to the great exchange rate

i feel at home there
montana isnt much different from alberta

[Ptah]

8. I grew up just sixty miles south of Alberta.

On the prairie north of Great Falls.

I sometimes wonder if I could survive a prairie winter.



:hi:

[ironflange]

12. the winters arent nearly as bad as they used to be

last week we had a few days of minus 25 or so and youd have thought fire was falling from the sky
the way people bitched about it

when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s we would have weeks on end of weather like that every winter
and when we got a chinook that was a real rare treat

if you grew up in montana youd damn well better know what a chinook is

now it seems we get that cold maybe only once every two or three winters
and the chinooks can last for several days or even two or three weeks

[havocmom]

2. Havocdad spoke to a pal in the mountains of the west and it was in the 50s (above) there

We were struggling to break 0 and got about six inches of snow since Friday. Warming up though. Supposed to hit mid 30s tomorrow. We had some nasty bad wind with the below zero temps Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Got up to about 12 yesterday, but the wind was cold.

And the humidity? Usually runs about 12% this time of year... HA! 65-95% for the most part lately. I swear Ptah, I may mail my aching joints to so you can set them out in the warm sun! ;)

The high mountains near Divide, MT got RAIN. Can you believe it! Divide is slightly west of Butte. Pretty high altitude. Rain. In Feb.

Sitting here in a sleeping bag tonight and about to dip my aching hands in melted wax.

[ironflange]

3. same thing here yesterday

we decided to head to the mountains yesterday afternoon
when we left calgary it was around 0 f and stayed there most of that way
but i swear within the space of a minute or two just past barrier lake it rose to above freezing

we have a temperature display in the car

i think we must have passed through a temperature inversion

the same thing happened in reverse on the way home

hows the cheese supply
heeheehee

[havocmom]

4. mmmmmmm CHEESE. !(#!@@((_)@!*##! DHS still banning his favorite

Department of Homeland Security: protecting America from really good triple cream blue because unpasturized is BAD (but toxins in air from 9-11 and filthy flood water in NOLA is just fine)

Have to have a lesser cheese with our champaign on Christmas Eve. I may just drive up and see you next holiday season. Life is too short to miss exquisite cheese!

(OK, is anybody else having trouble with spell check not cranking up?)

[ironflange]

6. i dont suppose youll be in great falls this weekend

i could try to find some here

youre closer to billings though arent you

oh well
cest la vie

maybe ill find some anyway and have it in your honor
nyuk nyuk nyuk

[havocmom]

7. Gonna be in Great Falls in a couple months.

But not this week.
And we are not close to ANYTHING. I should PM our coordinates to you so you can Google earth us and really feel sorry for us.

Havocdad said we could send a check if you wanted to MAIL cheese from Great Falls. LOL

Seriously, I don't want you to end up in GITMO for bringing cheese to poor Americans forced to eat domestic congealed paste.

But, someday, we GOTTA meet on the border for a picnic. We'll bring the champaign!

[ironflange]

9. hmmm maybe i could hide some under a rock or something

gee
is it really that hard to find good cheese in the usa

you can go into even a lower end supermarket here and get all sorts of really top drawer cheese

and the cheese shops here are something else

you ought to come up here some time
id love to meet you for that picnic

[havocmom]

5. dupe

DU still a bit buggy? I got nuttin showing reply posted

[lizerdbits]

10. Montana is beautiful

but I don't know if I could survive a winter there. My mom's family is in the Helena and Missoula areas and we go every 5 years or so, but always in July or August. I was there in February of 89 for my grandfather's funeral. 50 degrees the day of the funeral and a wind chill of -60 two days later when we caught our train back to DC.

My mom is now a weather wuss after growing up in Helena, she gets cold in Virginia.

[Ptah]

11. July and August are good months to be in Montana.

I remember this Montana anecdote:

What are you doing this summer?

If it's a nice day, we'll eat out on the porch.

:silly:

[ironflange]

13. we have a similar saying

there are only two seasons in calgary

winter and stampede week

and even so a few years ago the north end of the city saw some snow during the stampede

[Ptah]

14. The Tucson Rodeo and Parade are in a few weeks.

No chuck wagon races, but still a good show.

:thumbsup:

No snow here.

[havocmom]

15. Tucson does a fine St Patrick's Day Parade too

Noting like Butte, of course


but lots of pallid paddy hide roasting in the bright sunshine... Hey, maybe it is like Butte.



Yes, that is Butte Montana, March 17

But Tucson doesn't do a big party for St. Urho holiday the day before St Pats.



St Urho kicked grasshopper butt!

[ironflange]

16. butte huh

it might be better if some of those folks marched straight into that big hole they have there

[havocmom]

17. Butte is a fine community. Those folks have had one economic disaster after another and they thrive

They also know how to party.

[ironflange]

18. ive been there

it really is a fun and interesting town

[havocmom]

19. and, judging from some of the chaps in the parade, even coconuts migrate to Butte

They got lucky last year, the weather was grand.

Speaking of which, are you the one that sent us the artic blast that came in today? Brrr, even I'm cold. It is nasty out this evening.

[ironflange]

22. dont think it was me

we had a short blizzard this morning but otherwise its been fairly decent of late

[havocmom]

23. Was nice this AM. Nasty wind by noon

damned blizzard by 4.

All on top of a nice layer of ice from some rain before dawn. Nasty day

[ironflange]

24. i understand you dont have much of a commute in your town though

i take half an hour on a good day and thats considered a short hop around here
in that mini blizzard yesterday it took nearly an hour

at least its still better than commuting in vancouver

btw i have no problems with dupes so i guess your machine is a pitha whatever the hell that is

[havocmom]

20. dupe again. Is this place buggy or is my new PC a PITHA?

[havocmom]

21. Hey, somebody gave me another heart!

Who did that?

Thanks. Made my day (which sucked up to now)