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Gardening Tips for the Month of July Aside from hail damage last week, and a few extra insect problems, it has been a wonderful year for Chouteau County gardeners. Below are a few tips which will assist gardeners with summer management of their landscapes. • Plants use in our landscapes is up to 2.5 inches of water per week. • Harvest broccoli while heads are tight. • Pick shell peas when the seeds are fully developed but before ripening. Harvest edible pod peas when the seeds are barely visible inside the pod. Allow snap peas to reach nearl...
I love this salad in the summer and I have not made it for a decade or more. It seems like I have forgotten all about it. Called Cucumbers in Sour Cream, it is best served just when made and the sour cream mixture is thick. But keep it longer and it is still very good. You will need 2 cucumbers sliced into thin rounds One red onion sliced into rings ½ cup sour cream 1tablespoon vinegar 2 tablespoons sugar Pepper to taste. Tobacco to taste Lots of ground sea salt. Take your sliced onion and cucumber and spread them over a cookie pan. Grind up...
Q: I’ve heard a lot about asteroids that might hit the earth, or new diseases that could destroy all life, or new weapons of war, and I can’t help but be worried about the future. Is this the way the world is going to come to an end? A: The world as we know it will only come to an end in God’s time and in God’s way—and only when He intervenes to usher in a perfect world of peace and righteousness. As the Bible says, “In keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells” (2 Peter 3:13)....
Many of us have been, are currently and/or will end up becoming a caregiver at some point in our lives. People who provide unpaid care for an elderly, ill or a disabled family member or friend in their home are called informal caregivers. Nearly half of informal caregivers assist someone who is 75 years old or older. As the elderly population continues to grow nationwide, so will the need for informal caregivers. Caregiving can include everyday tasks, such as helping with meals, schedules and bathing and dressing. It can also include managing...
Normally the first column of each month is a recipe. I will get to that next week but do you realize that our Senior Citizen Cooks are being treated like Second Class Cooks by the State of Montana? All of the cooks were ordered to attend a meeting in Fort Benton June 28 where they were to learn more about how to cook commodities and how to cook different food than is being cooked at the Senior Citizen Centers around Montana. Two flaws in all that. First, the cooks cook what goes over well. They are told to cook more fish and yet they have no...
People suffer heat-related illness when the body’s temperature control system is overloaded. The body normally cools itself by sweating. However, under some conditions, sweating just isn’t enough. In such cases, a person’s body temperature rises rapidly. Very high body temperatures may damage the brain or other vital organs. Most heat illnesses occur from staying out in the heat too long. Exercising too much for your age and physical condition are also factors. Anyone can succumb to the heat if one does not take appropriate precautions when exp...
Q: I’ve heard a lot about asteroids that might hit the earth, or new diseases that could destroy all life, or new weapons of war, and I can’t help but be worried about the future. Is this the way the world is going to come to an end? A: The world as we know it will only come to an end in God’s time and in God’s way—and only when He intervenes to usher in a perfect world of peace and righteousness. As the Bible says, “In keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells” (2 Peter 3:13)....
Last year, I read that during his presidency Theodore Roosevelt often slept outside in a tent with his children. Teddy had a reputation for being a rough and tumble adventurous man, but consider the oddity of the president of the United States sleeping in the yard with his children. It’s hard to imagine any president or world leader doing the same in this day and age. One of the reasons this detail stood out to me was that during his childhood, Roosevelt was sickly and unable to be p...
Have you heard the “bored” word yet from the kids? Here are some low cost ideas you could keep handy for those times you just cannot think of suggestions for your own kids or maybe even a plan for a group event. • Visit the animal shelter • Visit a fire station • Have cooking lessons at home (bake bread, make homemade ice cream, grandma’s cookies) • Take a drive to the local historical roadside sites • Learn to knit or do needlework • Get a giant piece of paper and colored pencils and draw your dream house interior view with all the details • P...
This must be about the umpteenth time I have taken pen in hand and written something about the Fourth of July. Usually, most of my Fourth of July stories are about the Fourth in Glacier National Park, the Fourth on Clear Creek in the beautiful Bear Paw Mountains or the Fourth of July on Flathead Lake where there are so many people, that is probably the very worst of all times to visit tiny towns like Lakeside that have been made huge by friends of friends, tourists and families from all over the world. Wherever I am writing about, I never forge...
The apostle Peter is one of the most recognized figures in western civilization. His writings and actions have been analyzed and preached about. Some of the greatest works of art and architecture in western history feature his likeness or name. Oddly enough, his journey began with humble origins. He was an uneducated fisherman in one of the most backwater places in the world. When he stood trial before the Jewish leadership, they made fun of his message because he was an uneducated rube. What...
Q: I overheard someone say the other day that God had been speaking to them about something. (I think it had to do with something she was doing that God didn’t want her to do.) Do you think she actually heard a voice speaking to her? God never spoke to me that way. A: This person probably didn’t mean that God had spoken to her with an audible voice. He may do this rarely, even today—but this is not His normal way of letting us know His will. Instead she had probably come to sense in her mind and heart what God wanted her to do (or perha...
Tis the season for thunder and lightning rolling out of the mountains and onto the prairie. Farmers always hope that those thunder and lightning storms will come with no hail. Everyone hopes those storms will come with no funnel clouds. Last week I got to thinking about thunder and lightning storms I have been involved with or heard about. Some are just plain wonderful. Others lead to great tragedies and as a result are nightmares from hell. I was reading the Media Report last week from the Chouteau County Sheriff’s office. The report said t...
The Old Testament tells the account of the lives of a pair of brothers: Jacob and Esau. Jacob, the younger brother, steals his brother’s birthright and flees the country to go into hiding. From that point forward, we see Jacob live through a difficult series of circumstances and challenges, eventually fathering 12 children, whose descendants become the Jewish people. The difficulties he faced were ridiculous; his life was downright difficult. Later in the Scriptures, God says that he loves J...
Q: I admit we never paid much attention to the television programs and films our children watched, but I’m beginning to wonder if we made a mistake. I guess we thought they’d learn how they ought to live by watching us, but now I’m not so sure. Have we missed something? A: Raising our children is one of the most important responsibilities God gives us, and neglecting it or leaving it to others can be disastrous. The Bible says, “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it” (Proverbs 22:6)....
Field days coming up near Loma and Turner MSU Northern Agricultural Research Center (NARC) and MSU Extension will be hosting two field days near Loma and Turner, Montana on Monday, July, 11. The Loma field day will begin at 9:00 a.m. north of Loma near the Terry Mckeever farm at 2088 Houston road. The Turner field day will begin at 5:00 p.m. near the Max Cederberg farm north of Turner. A barbeque hosted by CHS Big Sky will follow the Turner field day. Dr. Luther Talbert (MSU agronomist/spring wheat breeder) will educate producers about spring...
Between work, the kids, and various hobbies I am pretty busy. As a result of the hectic life I live, I often don’t get to the various tasks I commit to doing around the house. For example, I set out to fix my car a while back. I cleared an afternoon and got to work. Except, I didn’t finish it up. So, a week later I got back to it. Again, I didn’t manage to get the car running. Then it snowed, so I put it off again. After enough time passed, my wife began asking me when I would get the car runni...
No matter how hard one tries, it seems like stains on your clothes are inevitable and it is a constant battle in trying to get them out. The key to stain removal is to catch and treat the stains before they go through the washing machine and, most importantly, before drying. Quick and cautious stain removal will keep clothes in wearable condition longer and helps reduce clothing costs. The fiber content and the suggested care of the fabric will determine how you should approach removing stains. The following information is applicable to...
CS Lewis wrote “God is love, but love is not God” in The Four Loves. In penning these words, he expertly describes a common tendency in people to make an idol out of our feelings of love. The first half of the quote is from the writings of the apostle John. John’s point was that one of God’s main attributes is that he is loving. The second half of the quote refers to the fact that, because love is such a huge part of God’s personality, the best part of our experience of love can easily re...
I have written about this again and again but it is so beautiful in my back yard I have to write about it one more time this spring. When my mother and I bought the Sixth Street house in Havre, we had moved back home from Lakeside and Somers on Flathead Lake. One thing mother loved about living in those locations was that winter or summer she saw a huge amount of green evergreens out her windows. I knew that we had to have that in Havre as well. The back yard of our house was just mainly dirt but you know I had known I wanted to grow dahlias an...
Q: Where can I find God? Everybody seems to have a different opinion about this, but how do I know which one is right? Maybe they’re all wrong, and God doesn’t want to be found—or doesn’t even exist. A: The most important truth I can tell you is this: God not only exists, but He wants you to come to know Him as your closest and best friend! “You are my friends,” Jesus told His followers (John 15:14). And God has done everything He possibly can to make this a reality. God isn’t hiding off in some distant corner of the universe, hoping we’ll...
We at “The Mountaineer” were talking about our favorite food drive in restaurants. It all came because one of us had been searching the net and found the top twenty-five fast food restaurants in the United States. We were wondering if there could be a story there. The amazing thing about the top twenty-five fast food restaurants in the United States, not a one of them is located in Havre, Montana. There are a couple in Great Falls, a couple in Missoula, one in Kalispell and maybe three in Billings. So we are not well represented in the pop...
It is that wonderful month of May. My upstairs bedroom window has been surrounded by white apple blossoms for most of two weeks now and it is glorious. I love to get up early, about a half hour before dawn or even earlier and go out to the back terrace and sit and listen to the birds making a joyful noise to herald a new day. That is a beautiful way to start any day. My dog Fallie, who hates it outside with a passion, even has enjoyed this week with the temperatures in the 70’s. He walks slowly around the terrace and smells individual lilac l...
Q: I think it’s arrogant for people to say they know they’re going to go to heaven when they die. How do they know? I’m just as good as some of them are, even if I’m not very religious. A: The greatest mistake anyone can ever make is to assume that they are good enough to go to Heaven. And yet countless people make this mistake every day, thinking their good deeds will somehow outweigh their bad deeds and make them eligible for Heaven. Why do I say this is a mistake? The reason, the Bible says, is because God’s standard is nothing less than per...
VOLUNTEER HELP NEEDED during the Recycling Bonanza on Saturday, April 30, 2016 from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm at the Dedman Foundation Animal Shelter parking area at 2400 High St in Fort Benton. Any amount of time you could be there would be greatly appreciated. With the annual Recycling Bonanza coming up, the theme of decluttering and organization comes to mind. With the weather having been as nice as it has been, this probably does not feel like the time to be Spring cleaning inside. However, when those spare moments arise or the weather forces y...