Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes. It was a quiet day around here. We did a little sledding after some fresh snowfall. The boys and I played on the frozen ditch up the road.
After a week of warm weather that melted all of the snow in the valley, it snowed 4 inches today. It has been a heavy snowfall year in the bitterroot, but not too bad. 10 inches so far this winter.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Winter has Arrived in Montana
Boy, it went from beautiful to freezing cold in a week. We had some negative temperatures last week and about 6 inches of snow. We are burning through wood like there is no tomorrow. We'll probably run out this winter. So I guess I'll have to get twice as much next year.
We are hang drying our clothes now instead of using the dryer. I want to see how much less our electric bill is without using the dryer for a month. Our washing machine broke down a couple of days ago. So we washed 3 loads of clothes in the bathtub with the whole family. It was good family bonding. I may just leave the washer broken.
Jak is turning 3 tomorrow. And he still is in diapers. He does not like to use the toilet. He is still not talking a whole lot either. We probably need to read with him more.
Anyway, if anyone is looking for some instant hand sanitizer, check out foodservicefiresale.com. They have the best pricing on bulk cases. Purell sanitizes your hands and does not dry them out.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Winter is Coming
We are finally using the wood burning stove. This thing cranks!!! It heats the whole house. Much cheaper to heat with wood than gas. We got a few more loads of wood to make sure we have enough for winter. It is hard to tell because it goes fast. Anyway, the kids are doing good in school and I am positioning all the sites to really take off in January. I think we are going to create another instawares but better.
Our baby horses are doing good. Pepper healed up from her epic first day here and they are super friendly. We found a nice piece of property but the cash flow isn't there, so maybe next year.
Man, I am probably not the only one to notice, but food prices are going up. My pistachios are 20$ per bag now. Used to be 8. We have cut down on our food costs since we don't eat out any more. That's a good thing.
Our baby horses are doing good. Pepper healed up from her epic first day here and they are super friendly. We found a nice piece of property but the cash flow isn't there, so maybe next year.
Man, I am probably not the only one to notice, but food prices are going up. My pistachios are 20$ per bag now. Used to be 8. We have cut down on our food costs since we don't eat out any more. That's a good thing.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
1 Month in Montana
Montana is definitely one of the best states in the country. Beautiful, rugged and the people here are super friendly. There is plenty to hunt, plenty of water, and plenty of rock. The kids seem to like it out here. Mom and dad have been visiting for a couple of weeks so we have been eating good. Dad cranks up the grill everyday. Found out yesterday Abbey needs to get her eyes checked. Sounds like glasses are in her future.
Anyway, we got another load of wood Sunday, which should be enough for winter now. Just have to split it.
Anyway, we got another load of wood Sunday, which should be enough for winter now. Just have to split it.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Summer 2010
Wow, what a crazy summer. 3 of the kids went to camp for 5 weeks and Jak stayed with us at Drew and Mels. As the kids finished up camp, we packed up everything to head back to WI for the family reunion and to get our truck and trailer. The family reunion was a blast and we met a lot of new relatives. Oh, and the brats were the bomb.
So the craziest part of the summer was that my biggest client was stealing a lot of money from our joint venture. Apparently him making 500,000 per year was not enough for him so he decided to skim an extra 150,000 per year. It is amazing what greed does to people. I come in and create a site generating tons of profit and this coward decides to screw me over. LOL. Anyway, what goes around comes around. He'll get his payback for being a crooked weasel. No different than the weasel at instawares or sweet paper, I seem to be drawn to crooked, unethical weasels. But at least I can look in the mirror every morning knowing that I earn my money honestly and ethically.
Lying crooks like Brick and Bill have to look themselves in the mirror everyday knowing that they are lying cowards that can not stand on their own 2 feet and support their wives and children. They have to lie and steal and cheat to make it in life.
Anyway, I am ramping up my other 4 clients and launching 2 new sites next week. I'll hunker down for a year and get everything back on track and eat their lunch. Just a shame people can't be happy with what they have. Some people don't know how good they have it till it's gone.
So we just got out to Montana to start our new life here. We are renting a place in Stevensville for a year to see how we like it. It looks beautiful and there is so much to do, I don't know where to start. I am going to cut some firewood tomorrow up in the wilderness. We need plenty of wood for winter. :)
So the craziest part of the summer was that my biggest client was stealing a lot of money from our joint venture. Apparently him making 500,000 per year was not enough for him so he decided to skim an extra 150,000 per year. It is amazing what greed does to people. I come in and create a site generating tons of profit and this coward decides to screw me over. LOL. Anyway, what goes around comes around. He'll get his payback for being a crooked weasel. No different than the weasel at instawares or sweet paper, I seem to be drawn to crooked, unethical weasels. But at least I can look in the mirror every morning knowing that I earn my money honestly and ethically.
Lying crooks like Brick and Bill have to look themselves in the mirror everyday knowing that they are lying cowards that can not stand on their own 2 feet and support their wives and children. They have to lie and steal and cheat to make it in life.
Anyway, I am ramping up my other 4 clients and launching 2 new sites next week. I'll hunker down for a year and get everything back on track and eat their lunch. Just a shame people can't be happy with what they have. Some people don't know how good they have it till it's gone.
So we just got out to Montana to start our new life here. We are renting a place in Stevensville for a year to see how we like it. It looks beautiful and there is so much to do, I don't know where to start. I am going to cut some firewood tomorrow up in the wilderness. We need plenty of wood for winter. :)
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Overwhelming the System
Barack Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.
Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?
-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."
-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.
-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.
-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.
Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?
-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."
-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.
-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.
-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Seattle May 2010
We have been at Paul and Erins for a week in Woodinville, WA. We have checked out some beautiful property on the olympic peninsula. Just have to make a decision. Skokomish farms was beautiful, but a little pricey. Paul and I climbed in Vantage 1 day on basalt which was cool, steep climbing.
Oh, and did I mention, Seattle has some of the best Thai food in the country. Monica and the kids are heading back to atlanta to get ready for camp. I am driving to wisconsin to visit Aunt Dorothy.
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