This morning My Kid and The Cousins completed their two week course of swimming lessons at Splash Montana.  We’ve been here that long. Right now The Best Aunt in the World and the Grandfather are with My Kid and Boy Cousin fishing at Frenchtown Pond. Yesterday the Grandparents took the cousins to the Lee Metcalf [...]

Ever since were at the fair and I looked down and saw a white dot on my daughters hair, which was probably pollen, I have been paranoid–to the point of waking up in the middle of each night– worried that we have lice (see April 11, 2009). I finally drove to the drugstore for Pantene [...]

This morning’s top story in the Missoulian, our local daily newspaper; “Grizzly, cub killed in Glacier Park“.             By Michael Jamison of the Missoulian: WEST GLACIER – “The old grizzly sow was rumbling straight toward a campground full of hikers, chubby cubs laboring along behind, when two rangers simultaneously pulled their triggers. [...]

My dad really wanted to take the grandkids to the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge up the Bitterroot not far from Missoula.  It’s a beautiful spot but I’m afraid the kids weren’t impressed.  What visible wildlife there was were birds and ducks.  It was hot.  The grass was dry. Splash Montana rounded out the afternoon [...]

I had a lovely lunch with one of my oldest friends at Scotty’s Table today.  Below the fire escape of the Wilma Theatre was not a quality destination when I lived in this town.     Over my mother’s lasagne we had a family meetingabout potential destinations for my parent’s 50th Anniversary next year.  We’ve [...]

After we left Bigfork we drove to Lake Mary Ronan because my dad wanted to eat at his favorite restaurant.  Then my dad and sister and kid fished for perch off the end of the dock.   Fall is coming to this part of the country.  The playhouse is winding down it’s season and the [...]

8/17/09 I stopped by the theatre to pick up my reunion t-shirt. Then I walked along Electric Avenue and looked at the shops, some that were there when I was a playhouse actor and most that were not.  In the gift shop next to the theatre I heard some people talking about JK Simmons and [...]

Sunday 8/16/09 We got lost on the way to the softball game because it wasn’t where I thought it would be.  It wasn’t where we played against the town when I was a company member.  The game was fun to watch.  There was beer and clowning and the old guys who were in the playhouse [...]

8/15/09 We got into town in time to see the special matinee performance of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.  At the same time as I was watching the current production I had a movie in my mind of the production of the same show that I was in when I was a company member [...]

8/15/09 Wow it’s weird to be here in Bigfork, staying in a hotel, in town for an event, like a middle-aged person.  Not like when I was one of the company actors living 4 to a room in the dorm.  Not like when I was a kid in awe of the professional actors and asking [...]