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PORCH PONDERINGS

by QueenNormaJean marching on!

Rated: 13+ · Book · Biographical · #2198921

Norma's Wanderings around a small section of Montana

Well, hey there!
Welcome to Roundup, Montana! If it's a nice day, we'll sit a spell on my porch and talk awhile.

A poem captured my attention the other day.

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget 
Falls drop by drop upon the heart, 
Until, in our own despair,
 Against our will,
 Comes wisdom 
Through the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

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Wordsmitty ✍️

about 4 hours ago
In response to "Release the Kraken"

Is it possible that the tooth kraken escaped the dentist and is causing all this problem in town? Well, at least you can't say life has been boring. Time to look up kraken kurses for a cough solution.

Kåre เลียม Enga

about 5 hours ago
In response to "Release the Kraken"

I can believe the pettiness.

Kudos to the kids. Gotta love bigger city TV stations. Sorry that your hamlet will bear the brunt, but pettiness needs to be called out.

St. Patrick's Sox

about 8 hours ago
In response to "Release the Kraken"

Wow that's a lot of local and personal drama. Hope you're feeling better soon.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 6, 2025 at 6:44pm
In response to "Weather Change"

Healing takes time. My body keeps telling me that...

tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

Mar 6, 2025 at 1:22pm
In response to "Weather Change"

Glad you starting to feel better.

tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

Mar 3, 2025 at 2:24pm
In response to "Creeping Crud - Cold Season"

I'm just getting done with my seasonal battle of the creeping crud. It took a week to start feeling like I was winning and almost another week to get cleared up enough to sleep without waking up to coughing fits.

Wordsmitty ✍️

Mar 2, 2025 at 10:09pm
In response to "Creeping Crud - Cold Season"

Well, weather here is very voggy. That's haze and particulate with some SO2 thrown in from the belching volcano. The winds are almost nil and have a tendency to blow in circles due to the four mountains on isle so it doesn't go away. Yesterday, you could barely tell there was an ocean and couldn't tell what color it was. The mountains look like ghosts through the vog, when you can see them. They're only twenty miles away!

At least no health problems, except breathing the vog. Stuck in Moderate range and hasn't approached Unhealthy fortunately. Suppose to get some trade winds in a day or two that will push this stuff away. If not, we may need to send a sacrifice into the volcano.

Trying not to think about the messes around the world, but you're right.

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AmyJo-Spring's on the way!

Mar 2, 2025 at 8:59pm
In response to "Creeping Crud - Cold Season"

Hiya, NormaJean!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels "out of sorts" about health issues. Not that I would wish stuff on anyone. I'm glad you don't have the "ugly" creepy crud. The non-ugly is bad enough. Hopefully, Spring is on its way, and soon you will be feeling better.

Texas is throwing out temp numbers like it's the Powerball. 80 one day, 40 the next. I'm ready to start complaining about the hot weather...LOL.

Like you, I've also been remiss about my writing, but have decided that March is my new year.

Blessings to you, and prayers for recovery, both body and spirit.

AmyJo

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Mar 2, 2025 at 8:34pm
In response to "Creeping Crud - Cold Season"

Fairly calm weather here. River is mostly ice free.

World events... "where are the clowns".

I'm writing a little but spending more effort on making separate items for old pieces (mostly poems) that were snug-in-bed in old blog entries.

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tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

Feb 23, 2025 at 4:05pm
In response to "Weird"

I went through something similar when I was around 30 years old. The first time I blacked out was at night, I had gone to the bathroom and was heading back to bed. The next thing I know, it's six in the morning and I'm lying on the floor. I blacked out again the following day while making a sandwich. This was on the weekend. Monday morning I blacked out in the shower and almost drowned. My wife of the time heard me fall and came in to find me unconscious under the stream of water. I spent the next two days in the hospital and had every test imaginable done, but they found nothing wrong and I have never had it happen again?

I hope it's something simple and you have anymore episodes.

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March 12, 2025 at 11:18pm

#1085302

Release the Kraken

Let's see - there is trouble in town. But then in a small town, there is always trouble of some sort.

The latest is what happened at the school board meeting on Monday. My newspaper publisher urged me to go. "Norma, I hear that this meeting may get 'spicy'." Her exact term. So I went not knowing exactly what that meant. Oh yeah, spicy is what you call Wendy's Chili. Mildly hot. This gathering was Carolina Reaper - tear your throat out - spicy.

Seems there was a big kerflugle between a HS teacher and the HS principal and the superintendent. The teacher, a female, is the cheer coach. She raised monies for new uniforms. They were due, they uniforms were over 10 years old. Fair enough. So the cheer team raised a great deal of money from the local community for this.

Then she goes to the principal to ask about the uniforms - to purchase and whatever. He disses the idea. So she goes over his head and approaches the superintendent. The superintendent pretty much calls her a liar and tells her she has until Monday at 4 PM to either resign or be considered a 'not to rehire' for next year. Pretty much resign or be fired. She let them know at 3:55 on Monday she resigned.

So the board meeting called for public comment. At least 15 people spoke. Students of the teacher, parents, teachers who were co-workers all spoke of this kind, caring, smart person who really cares about her job and her students.

Public comment was over. The vote was taken, they accepted her resignation. Move on to the next topic - buying a bus. And there was more discussion about the bus than the idea that this person, whose life is now torn up, was perhaps treated unfairly.

The next day students walked out of school. Billings TV channels came up. I wanted to do a story, but another reporter got the assignment. So I may reach out to the teacher in a week or so. I got her personal information after the meeting.

I told her never to stop fighting, ignore the small-minded people in the world. I also told her of a teacher I had in HS. My English teacher who instilled in the love of words, of writing. A good teacher can have such an impact.

And then that night I also learned there was a small fire at one of the refuse sites in the county. WHAT!!!! So I quickly emailed some people to see what I could find out. We had a refuse committee meeting last night. The people that tend to that little dump site set a fire a week ago, but didn't keep a good eye on it. Then when some wind came up on Monday, the fire reignited and burnt an acre or two. Outside the dump site, on private land. Two fire departments responded - Roundup and Hawk Creek, a small rural group. The worst of it all, no real damage was done, is that there was no 'burn permit' issued to the dump. You have to have a permit to do open burning. No big deal. No cost. But you need to let the powers that be know if you're going to be doing any kind of open burning.

So we had a prolonged discussion about this last night at the meeting. The guys involved will get their 'hands slapped' and reminded that they need to take care of business properly. Egads.

I am still getting rid of this cold, or whatever, I have. Coughing still. I went to the dentist the other day and the hygienist told me she's had a cough for a few months. Oh great. But at least my extraction site, where they pulled the tooth, is healing. Because they had to 'drill' it out, it will take longer to heal. Again, oh great. I told them, it was like taking that tooth out 'released the kraken'. The dentist was a little taken aback. But think about it. Tooth out, fainting spell, getting sick, getting sicker, needing drugs and antibiotic, still coughing.

Yep - released something.

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