Sans Camera

Petey has the camera (he would make that gagging face and roll his eyes if he saw knew I wrote Petey on the blog). So, what we have been doing? And what will you see in the coming days?

First, I will get my head out of my new book The Outlander by Gil Adamson and blog Matt and Jeannette's wedding.

Then you would see that Pete's buddy Jim Wofford "The Rev" - our dear friend who married us in October is in town. They are FISHING on the Missouri and out of touch and having fun.

I (and thousands of others) am attending the first of 3 nights of the famous Livingston Round-Up Rodeo tonight with Levia, Christina, Dennis, hopefully Madeleine. But not before joining Jacqueline and Sarah at the Livingston Farmer's Market. After the rodeo I will race home to watch the fireworks from our house... best seat in town.

Then, tomorrow I work and I meet Pete and Jim in Bozeman for the Shawn Colvin Concert at the Emerson. Staying the night at The Howell's house and prep for the ginormous 4th of July shindig at their place.

The Lustig cousins are in town with their new and old wives, the Waters girls are coming, our new friends Kent and Dawn from Orange County, and many many friends and neighbors I am sure.

The young dogs - Oli and Gaucho stayed at the Howell's for couple of days. They just met their new doggie cousins and they are having fun running around. Brutus is keeping me company in the shop and at home while Pete and Woff play with fish.

Much to see and hear about. Stay tuned.

Weather is beautiful here. 80's and sunny - today there is some cloud cover and a slight breeze. Waters are still VERY high on the Yellowstone, but I am loving this summer already!

Oklahoma Wedding

Clark and his fiance Meg Taylor --- not really, but they do pretend to be en-fianced at family gatherings.

My mom's best friend Jane and herself.

Step Daddy Jim and Mom

This is NOT the fabulous wedding Peter and I attended this weekend, but many of my other favorite people did.

Meg Taylor's brother, my mom's best friend's son, and childhood friend got married. Congrats Beau and Kim!

How you know he's a keeper

You know you have a great guy when you ask him to pick one of the following movies to watch:

The Italian Job

National Treasure

and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

and he picks the last.

I'm not lazy, Just Busy

Since Jacqueline did such a great job re-capping our fabulous evening on her blog, I decided to just let you read about it there.

And, it saves me about 10 minutes of precious time that I need to brush my teeth and change my clothes before heading out for the very long day ahead.

Matt and Jeannette get married tonight! I have to do some work / landscaping at the Ranch, and I just got back from a nice morning run.

Thanks Jacq for being so cool and having such a fun blog to read....

Mark's In n' Out Rod Run

I cannot tell you the name of one of these cars... They are all fancy, all nice, and all old. My father was in Heaven. He LOVES old cars. Actually he loves just about anything, and in true Scott-Fashion was able to carry on a 10 minute conversation with every single car owner about their particular car with shockingly accurate knowledge. I do know that Scott's favorite was the 1968 Stingray - 4 speed. Old Corvette that can go REALLY fast with a really pretty body style.

This was a fun part of our Saturday which we spent walking ALL over town, the river and playing in our yards. I miss you dad already.

Primal Quest

There is a VERY cool multi-sport endurance race- Primal Quest- going on in our area right now. Supposed to be one of the tougher races. They are running / biking part of their trek right past the Angler's West Shop all day today.

They were supposed to start a big river portion of the event just south of us, but it was cancelled due to the dangerously high waters of the Yellowstone. (Read more about our local flooding and high water situation / river / bridge collapses at Melynda's blog)

These guys are SUPER athletes. Wow.

Check out the site and you can see the "tracking" portion to see a lay of the land and progress.

http://www.ecoprimalquest.com/wp-primal/pq/

Mini Rodeo

We packed up the new babies to move them to their second new home - The Howell Plantation. This is them in their new trailer.

I think Olie stuck his head out the windows the entire trip.

Big Daddy Scott was here this weekend (yay)! He woke at 6am, shoveled poop for an hour with us over his normal breakfast / coffee time and helped us get these cuties to the Howells.

John and Joellyn have 2 horses already - Stumpy (pictured) and Griz. We kept them in separate lots for a few minutes to see how they'd get along. It seems our kids are snobs - don't really care about others.

Ah, now we are getting friendly. Once they are in the same space they had to check each other out. This is Diera checking out Griz.


This is Emma really checking out Griz. How else do you get to know your new roommate?

Deamo and Griz saying hello.


Stumpy and Olie might be buddies - so cute!

We spent a few hours walking the perimeter of the Howell's 20 acres to make sure the backside of the fence was in good enough condition to keep the horses in. We walked up and through their dry and arid and hot rocky canyon, got the fencing done and the horses now have LOTS of room to roam and explore.

After a while they got frisky and our 4 Norwegians got clickish again and ignored Stumpy and Griz. When they'd come up the Norwegian pack they would all run and buck and kick.

Joellyn says that they left The Hilton (at Heidi and Mike's ranch) and are now at the Holiday Inn. I personally think any place with Joellyn doting on them will be like heaven for them.

Another one bites the dust.

Not just a great song from the past, but the statement heard round Livingston this weekend.

Jeannette Marie Romig is FINALLY marrying Matthew David Blank this coming weekend. This past weekend was filled with all of the symbolic gestures and events that mark the ending of the "single life" and the transition to an apparently "different" life.

Matt and Jeannette are two of the most fun people on the planet, so it is only natural that they have really fun and cool friends.

The boys whisked Matt away to the Big Hole for a fishing / camping weekend, while the ladies showered Jeannette with a 'proper' (this term is used very loosely for purposes of this story) farewell to bachelorhood.

We laughed as hard as we could as we had drinks and food at Jeannette's house. We played games (who doesn't love a good pinata at a party?), and her more creative friends even gathered bits and stories about Jeannette's life, Matt, and their relationship and she was showered with rhyming words and props for her very own "Ode to Jeannette" skit.

All the bases were covered - we had an 18 passenger van to escort us wherever our tipsy little heads desired, we had party games for the bars, and of course, silly things for Romig to wear. Nothing says "watch out - loud group of drunk girls coming through" better than a cowboy hat with a veil, boa and crazy wigs.

Yes, even the non-bachelorette's wore wigs this evening. We felt a bit incognito in our town of 6,000. I had no idea I looked so fetching in a short purple wig with bangs.

There were many highlights of the evening - most involving our favorite creepy bar and the place ALWAYS sure to take a good party to the next level - the Hiatt House. To name a few- 80's butt rock, TJ pulling down men's pants, Jeannette spinning around the dance floor on some dude, the ultimate 80's party queen head banging until her neck hurt, That Guy game, ridiculous dancing, beautiful girls, and hangovers in the morning.


Terry Jo and Jeannette comparing their "That Guy" cards. We had to find guys at the bars that matched the descriptions on the cards and actually give them the cards. Ex. "Pony Tail Guy" "Too Old to Be Here Guy" "Fake Tan Guy" "Married, but pretending not to be tonight Guy" "Tight Pants Guy" "Wears more Jewelry Than Me Guy", etc.

Levia and Lori going incognito on the town. They look HOT as blonds and purple-heads!

Ivy, Kristen, Meagan, Terry Jo and Laurie - a few of Jeannette's cool friends.

Beautiful evening party in the soon to be Blank's backyard.

Kate came all the way from Steamboat, Co to sport this hot number for Jeannette.


It didn't take us much time to start having a good time. Romig, Kate, Brooke Lori, and the hostess, Camy.

Jeannette had a surprise skit done for her - she had no idea she had lived such a FUNNY life. We did.

From Oregon to Alaska to Montana --- she is FABULOUS!

You really had to be there to understand this picture...

I haven't forgotton you.

SO much to catch up on. Busy weekend.

Dad is here. Lots of fun. Crazy bachelorette party. Hot Rod car show. Gardening. A bridge in Livingston is collapsing. Moved horses. Repaired fence. Dinners out. 2 year old birthday parties. Lots lots lots! You will see. Stay tuned.

P.S. I saw the Plumber (married to Teri Hatcher in the show)
from Desperate Housewives in Albertson's this morning. James Denton. He's cute. I don't watch the show, but know who he is and see him occasionally. Personally, I think he looks better in person.

Show and Tell

A cancelled trip meant Pete got to fish with his friend Dave...
Look what they found!