Fog?!?!?!?

As usual, pardon the crappy cell phone picture. I was in my jammies, letting the dogs out to go do their business and the cell phone was right there. SO…had the one of the WEIRDEST experiences of my life yesterday driving home from Bismarck. There was this incredibly HEAVY fog covering much of the roads [...]

Hunting the Elusive Clay Pigeon

Those orange things in the box would be the elusive clay pigeons.  You can only hunt them while in flight.  But the damn things don’t have wings, so you need a launcher…hence the weird metal thing mickey-rigged on a tire rim.  Once you’ve shot the clay pigeon, you needn’t clean it, only make sure, when [...]

Car Shopping…North Dakota vs. Nevada

Brian with his “Sassy” new to us, Ford truck.  His color choice would have made his Dad proud, LOL! OK…Car shopping in North Dakota is completely, COMPLETELY, different than shopping for cars in Nevada.  I think we purchased 6 vehicles over the 18 years we were in Nevada.  Those that we purchased from dealerships (all [...]

Bye Bye Hunters

Does it make me a bad resident to be glad to see the hunters leave? The bad thing is that they are checking out early because we are having unseasonable weather and they are afraid of some huge storm rolling in and they would be unable to get home. I realize that they bring money [...]

Starting to feel like North Dakota doesn’t like us.

Well it was a crappy Monday…A crappy Monday to beat all crappy Mondays! Brian had his first Monday off in months.  He had planned to go to work and put on the new tires he’d ordered for his truck.  While his existing tires weren’t bald, the tread had worn down and he was driving on [...]

Irritations

I am so fracking (thank you Battlestar Galactica) frustrated right now. This week we were told that our utilities would be hooked up Thursday or Friday. That was going to be the soonest they could put the transformer in for the electrical. Well the transformer is in, but the guy who digs the trench for [...]

General Craziness

Where to start? Hmmm. So our house is physically put together, the walk-through was done on Friday, and I have house keys…four to be exact.  Four separate house keys; a different one for each doorknob lock and each deadbolt.  When a “model” house is built for a showroom, they just slap knobs and deadbolts on [...]

Shopping Spree!

I found this set on JC Penney quite a while ago.  Fortunately, they had it in stock at the JC Penney Home Store in Vegas so I was able to sit on them and find out how comfortable they really were. So, last night, I ordered 2 couches, 2 accent chairs, coffee table and 2 [...]

Hettinger County Fair

So I mentioned in the post below, that this weekend was the Hettinger County Fair.  What fun!  It was very small…smaller than any fair I’d ever been to. At the Moto Cross a couple of weeks ago, I met Marian.  Marian is a member of the Fair Board and she is the “one woman” committee [...]

Demolition Derby

Welcome to the Mott Demolition Derby!! This weekend was the Hettinger County, where Mott is the County Seat, Fair.  The much anticipated part of the fair would have to be the Demolition Derby.  There were about 7 or 8 locals in the Demo Derby and another dozen from surrounding states and counties. I was looking [...]

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