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…will be installed on Big Sky Blog this weekend. EDIT: Hooray! Successfully installed! How’s it look?

Do you ever wonder why drinking is such a problem with the teens in Montana? Well I have only lived here about two years and have three teenagers and what I see and hear horrifies me! Parents are drinking and in the bars and the kids are running amuck! Some parents are buying the alcohol for the kids and their friends if they stay home and drink. So they teach there kids that drinking is a normal thing and its O.K. to do. Well I refuse to say this is O.K. to my kids! Montana parents who are daily drinkers need t wake up and see this is not the path they should be sending their kids down. Don’t you want a better way for your children.

No, it’s not a town…it’s the latest tool for Big Sky Bloggers to strut their stuff, photo-wise. The delightful Flickr service has made it snap-easy to put together lots of great Montana pictures. Take a look right here!

Big Sky Movie Wranglers are celebrating the Montana’s HB 584 passing. Named”Big Sky on the Big Screen Act,” it will benefit Montana’s film industry in many ways. It will bring more productions to our state. It will add jobs for both skilled and entry level workers in many trades. It also promotes Montana, in a clean and postive way! Thank you to any & everyone who helped pass this bill.

One of the enduring mysteries about living in Montana is why the national media doesn’t recognize we exist. Parts of southern Montana just received a fairly large storm which included much snow but I didn’t see a thing about it in the national media until the exact same system started dumping snow on the Midwest. Maybe someday I will understand this mystery.

Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled. Herman Melville

Jennie alerted me to a blog devoted to information about Montana government…it is “…sponsored by the Mansfield Library at the University of Montana, with support from Montana government information professionals.” Definitely worth visiting and adding to your blogrolls (already added to the Big Sky Blogroll). Thanks Jennie!

Here are a couple of pictures taken out of my back door of the recent Spring storm.

I wonder if the old tale of April showers bringing May flowers will be true for us. Check my photos out here.

Sure, the lovely season of Spring arrived several weeks ago, but that’s no reason for it to NOT snow! Here in Great Falls, it’s just drizzle so far, but a pretty good chance that it will turn to snow overnight. Check out the forecast:

Meanwhile, down in Bozo, the fluffy stuff has been falling all day. Had enough, Kim…? ;-)

Thanks to everyone who responded. If I could figure out how to comment without doing another post I’d be in heaven! We’re still discussing this but at least now I don’t feel as if I am being selfish. I want to get married in Montana and darn-it all I’m going to!

It is my wedding and I feel that all that really matters is that those I love are here. I don’t care if we do not have 100 people .. if anything maybe we will even save money that way. I’ve traveled to weddings .. if they want to be here they can do that. If they do not .. well I am getting married anyway.

So we’ve started looking for wedding and reception sites in this wonderful little corner of the world. I’ve fallen in love with the outdoor idea of a wedding at Buck’s T-4 in Big Sky. It’s beautiful, has 2 waterfalls, a little wooden bridge. My fiance wants to go back to California to get married beause that is where his family is. I hate to say this but I do not care. It’s more expensive, I hate it there, and it’s my wedding not their’s. Selfish I know.

Who wouldn’t want to get married here? Just think of the wedding pictures and the wonderful advantage we have of the view that could be incorporated into them. Why get married in a place I despise when I could get married in the place I love more than anything?