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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 particularly active; his father would carry him around the l...
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 made him stand out in history, rather than living...
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 Jacob, but he hates Esau. This rather extreme s...
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 running. I guessed at a date, which then went by witho...
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 remind us of God. A mother’s love for her children is...
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...
I have reinvented a new taste treat for myself. Since becoming 75 I am trying to live the life that I want to live, rather than the life I should live. In order to do that I have started eating large gum drops coated with sugar. I want very large gum drops and want them to taste just like they tasted when I was a boy and would go to the Lyric Theater and buy them in boxes at the counter. My staple for show time eats was a sack of heavily buttered popcorn, a large coke, a box of gum drops and a couple of bags of peanuts. First I would polish...
My daughter loves wearing dresses, jewelry, nail polish, and shoes of every style/shape/color. She loves to be surrounded by pink, frilly, sparkly, and loud things. New dresses are her idea of heaven. She will often come to me with some piece of jewelry she has been given or an outfit in order to explain why this is her favorite thing in the world. No amount of explaining seems to be adequate to help her understand that everything can’t be her favorite. That’s okay, because she is full of excitement and pride, which is more important than tho...
Q: Our neighbor is one of the grouchiest people I’ve ever met. He always looks on the dark side of things, and never has a good word to say about anybody; and yet he claims to be a Christian. Is this the way Christians are supposed to act? A: I’m sorry your neighbor is this way; no one likes being around a grouchy person. Jesus certainly wasn’t this way; people wanted to be around Him—even little children. The Bible says, “Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all” (Philippians 4:4-5). Only God knows your neighbor’s heart, of course, an...
The following article about Fort Assinniboine as seen through the eyes of Dr. John Carroll was written for “The Mountaineer” in 1930. Dr. Carroll was slated to go on an adventure to the North Pole during his tenure at Fort Assinniboine but did not go. The article was given “The Mountaineer” by Midge Edwards. Why coal banks are not capitalized in the story remains a mystery. It was 51 years ago, June 17, 1879 that Dr. John V. Carroll, now a resident of Great Falls but at that time a private soldier in the 18th United States Infantry, stepped...
This is the time to take a hike or stroll through your favorite part of the Bear Paw Mountains. First, the creeks are running maybe as good as they might be running most of the year so get on out and enjoy them. In the bird department there are blue birds around, lots of robins, chickadees singing their spring door bell song, and even loons coming and going on Beaver Creek Reservoir at the north end of Beaver Creek Park. In the flower department look for pasque flowers or as we call them around here, crocuses. They are out as are buttercups...
For the fiftieth time this Sunday at 4:30pm there will be a Super Bowl of football played in at the San Francisco 49ers stadium in San Francisco. CBS is broadcasting the game and two veteran commentators, Jim Nance and Phil Simms will be calling the game. Only thing I know about them is that Nance does a better job on gold and Simms has started to drink Bigelow Green Tea and feels like a million dollars now. The two teams playing are the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers. It looks to be...
Q: I’ve tried to talk to my cousin about Jesus, but she says it doesn’t really matter what we believe about God as long as we’re sincere. What can I say to her? A: I’m thankful you’re concerned for your cousin, and I hope you’ll continue to pray for her and tell her about Jesus. The most loving thing we can ever do for anyone is to point them to Jesus Christ. One approach might be to remind her that sincerity alone isn’t enough in life. Suppose, for example, you had a deadly virus, and after examining you the doctor said take any medicine you...