4M #6 That Roo-und My Night

Mike’s Memory Monday Minutes #6 That Roo-und My Night At twelve I started to notice girls. But I wasn’t interested enough to spend time with them, talk to them, or anything really. I still liked my football, my forts, and friends too much to really give a...

Summer Gig 2016

My 2016 money making summer gig. I started working for American Seal Coating last month, but Monday was my first day on the job. My friend, Dan Robinson, helped me “seal” the American Coating job early this April when we prepped the equipment, cleaned the...

4M #5 Paper Masha Santa Clauses

Mike’s Memory Monday Minutes 4M #5 The great Paper Masha Santa Clauses. Ever since I was a little kid I’d wanted to do one of those paper mache Santa Claus boots that both my older brothers, Dale and Terry, had made. My mom would pull those boots out and...

4M #4: Ant Blows

Whoa, this is cool tubing! It whips around your head, around your legs, and smacks on the walls. What else can you do with such a cool piece of clear tiny tubing? “Hey, little brother, want to play the coolest game ever?” “What’s the...

Interchange Clean-Up

For the last two years I’ve had the opportunity to help Jodi Litchfield clean up two landscape islands underneath the I-90 Livingston, Montana Exit 333. During the winter the snow trucks spread sand along Highway 89 and – as it does here in Livingston...

Petry Sisterly Love

How Petry girls show sisterly love – Ava: Hannah, this isn’t a butt war. Hannah: I’ve got a different game. Ava: I hate your games. Hannah: This one is really fun, I promise. Ava: Dad, would you tell Hannah to get off me? Hannah: Isn’t this...