Oh Canada! 2024 November

 

Always Look In The Alleys - Idaho Falls

 

Idaho Falls, April 2024

Hotel: “We’re going to put a window in the bedroom door that leads to the balcony. Then we are going to put a shade over it that can’t be opened. Then we are going to put a very bright light outside that is on all night. Now you can’t look out the window or keep your room dark at night.”

There were a lot of animals in this, “Guess the Skull” game that I didn’t know lived in Idaho.

I killed a wooly mammoth with a pretend Atlanta.

This is Why We can't Have Nice Things.

A polar bear can eat 12 penguins a day and can sniff them out over 35 miles away. No zoo north of the 27th parallel is legally allowed to keep penguins because of their protected status and the polar bear risk.

Hours in Special Education

Hours in special education and general education shall be divided into (a) those which occur on Thursday, (b) those which are provided by an aide who is three times the weight of the student, (c) those that are provided by professional personnel, (d) fabulous ones, (e) those which are provided by a talking dog, (f) those included in this category, (g) innumerable ones, (h) those which involve the breaking of small objects, (i) those in which the student is wearing a yellow shirt.

How a Tiny Island Became One of the Most Militarized Countries in the World

https://www.wsj.com/video/series/wsj-explains/how-a-tiny-island-became-one-of-the-most-militarized-countries-in-the-world/B1853849-3144-4A43-A23E-18E913B22811

A Good Read

"Ok, boomer."

Always interesting when the dog (who rarely barks) sees something in the woods. And you don't see it.

What's Inside This Crater in Madagascar? (cool video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h42QVfrUVFw

Fipper / Brainwash

Forget it, never mind. You would'nt undersand anyway. 1,2,3,4!

Cool History!

On a side street between downtown Helena and the Capitol building, an unassuming former storefront belies an important story for Montana African-American history. Dorsey’s Grocery Store was once a thriving business run by Walter and Almira Dorsey, two of the town’s leading Black citizens. Both were Easterners who struck out for Montana from Maryland and Missouri about 1890. They landed in the capitol city and were married on New Year’s Eve, 1891, beginning a life together as prominent members of Helena’s Black community. In a time when neighborhood groceries were common, Walter and Almira launched their own. They first rented a place on Rodney Street and then moved to 843 8th Ave, living in the back and selling groceries up front for 5 years. Their industriousness paid off, giving them the chance to buy a vacant lot down the street at 900 8th Avenue and create a permanent home for themselves, their family, and their business. Walter and Almira Dorsey assembled their grocery store in 1904 by moving a store building and a gracious Victorian house onto the property and joining them together. The W. R. Grocery was soon open for business with a full range of “Groceries, Provisions, Salt Meats, Canned Goods, Fruits, Vegetables, Confectionary, Tin and Granite Ware.” Almira and family ran the store until 1932, after which it sold and continued as a grocery until 1961. In more recent times, many Helenans knew the store as the Wise Penny, a second-hand shop that operated here from the mid-1960s to 2002, while for a time, the house and carriage house behind held a photography studio and magic shop.