When the East Glacier boys decided to get rich playing Fantasy Football, they hadn’t counted on the problem of converting buffalo chips (the only currency for bison in Glacier park and bison society in general) to a Visa or Amex card to pay on line . . .
California had a water shortage and lots of thirsty people–Montana had lots of water and not all that many people. Governor Brown of California, along with George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Lady GaGa and the Michael Jackson heirs are lobbying the president to use an executive order to annex Montana as a new county and water source for a thirsty California.
Jack (pictured, blue shirt) had seen the Marble Arch in London and thought it would be just the thing to spiff up his ranch in Montana; to his surprise, it was not for sale, at any price. What’s more, none of the home improvement stores back home–Lowe’s, Home Depot–had any plans available or ideas on how to build one; they couldn’t even suggest a contractor, although he found two offered on eBay and three on Craigslist for Nigeria.
Ida, on hearing that the U S would open an embassy in Havana, applied for a job as a diplomat, but was told that the probable response to meeting her would be “Oh Deer,” and that didn’t translate well into Cuban Spanish, possibly causing uncomfortable moments. The State Department suggested she should apply at Interior, where her “Oh Deer” could go quite well with the news of shrinking budgets for Interior to cover shortfalls for the Affordable Care Act.
It had been billed as a simple 12 step program, but to Buddy, who was just beginning to get used to the idea, it seemed like there were a lot more than 12 steps, and some of them pretty steep.
Bobby was beginning to think his wife was right, he was in over his head as an amateur plumber–he should have just let her call the pro to begin with . . .
