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Ah, The Amber Brew

Jerry Puffer — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:13:58 +0000

A “Micro Brew”, that is! There’s going to be “Micro Brew” tasting going on this evening (Wednesday) down at the Conrad Summer Market Festival. AND Micro Brew tasting is not all! There’s going to be live entertainment on TAP along with kids activities. & dig this: the CASA/Gal “Strut Your Stuff Anything Goes” cook off [...]

The Ground Was Rockin'

Jerry Puffer — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:19:07 +0000

Make that “ROCKY”! I received a report this past weekend from Tall Todd, the custom cutter guy who comes up here to our Golden Triangle every harvest season. Todd & his custom cutter guys have moved to Clinton, Oklahoma. In Texas, they harvested crops that yielded from 18.6 bushels per acre on the Terry Bruce [...]

Bring Your Lawn Chairs

Jerry Puffer — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:41:53 +0000

Our neighbor up north, Bob Fagen is RETIRING! We wish him well & we know that his friends & neighbors here in the Golden Triangle do also. There’s going to be a retirement barbecue at Bob’s home tomorrow, Saturday, up in Kevin. Bob certainly deserves a nice retirement & barbecue after all these years. Hope [...]

Weeds Weeds Weeds

Jerry Puffer — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:36:29 +0000

I’m NOT blogging about that hit TV program on Showtime either! Our City of Shelby has a “Weed Ordinance”. The City of Shelby Weed Ordinance requires that ALL vegetation on property be kept BELOW 6 inches. IF vegetation is in EXCESS of this, you’ll be in “big trouble”…it’s a violation of the ordinance. This ordinance [...]

Communities faced with flooding emergencies

Wendy Nielsen — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:39:56 +0000

HAVRE, Mont. (AP) — Communities in northern Montana are considering emergency declarations amid flooding from unrelenting rainfall. Some areas have seen more rain in the past two weeks than in a normal year. Several communities are still recovering from flooding disasters in 2010 and 2011. The Chippewa Cree Tribe and Hill County were among the [...]

Rain dampening wildfire forecast in many areas

Wendy Nielsen — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:36:33 +0000

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Gov. Steve Bullock says wildfires still pose a risk later this summer despite the rainy weather that has hit much of the state. Bullock kicked off wildfire awareness week with a Monday briefing from more than a dozen state and federal land managers and fire experts. Bullock was told that the [...]

Fascination With Precipitation

Jerry Puffer — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:06:49 +0000

I’ve been literally fascinated with precipitation for years. Often times, you’ll find me OUTSIDE our KSEN Studios checking our rain gauge. This morning (Monday), I received the May Precipitation Report at the Knees.May was a windy, cool month, with strong winds from the west & the east & significant mositure coming towards the end of [...]

A Blooming Affair

Jerry Puffer — Fri, 31 May 2013 17:23:28 +0000

The RECCS Plant Sale is coming up tomorrow, Saturday, over at Shelby Paint & Hardware. Talk about SPRING(!) here in the Big Sky(!)…there’s going to be a VARIETY of fruits, vegetables & herbs available at this special sale tomorrow here in Shelby.. The hours for the RECCS Plant Sale will be from 11 tomorrow morning [...]

Flash floods hit Musselshell County, N. Cheyenne

Wendy Nielsen — Fri, 31 May 2013 14:29:33 +0000

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Heavy rains have brought flash floods to portions of central and eastern Montana but authorities say damages have been minor. Musselshell County emergency services coordinator Jeff Gates said Thursday that some private roads were damaged by high waters in areas south and east of Roundup. Gates says the flooding occurred in [...]

Goose Doesn't Abandon Nest in Time for Osprey

Wendy Nielsen — Thu, 30 May 2013 19:03:46 +0000

(Information in the following story is from: Missoulian, http://www.missoulian.com) MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A pair of Canada geese that claimed squatter’s rights to an osprey nest just outside a Missoula baseball stadium didn’t clear out in time for the osprey to assume their traditional nesting spot. University of Montana biologist Erick Greene told the Missoulian [...]

Green Acres

Jerry Puffer — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:26:52 +0000

"Talkative" Todd, the custom cutter guy who comes up here to our Golden Triangle every harvest season is in the Vernon, Texas area this week & Todd reports that his custom cutter guys had begun to harvest, but had to QUIT(!) because of "too much green!" They HAD harvested enough to get an idea what it was yielding, which was around 17.7 b

We Can Work It Out

Jerry Puffer — Tue, 28 May 2013 17:15:59 +0000

It’s one of my favorite Beatles tunes! Tomorrow night, Wednesday, there’s going to be a Community Work Night going on at the Main Street Park down in Valier. “Work Together”, that’s what the Canned Heat sang abou,t & EVERYONE is being invited to the Community Work Night tomorrow night at the Main Street Park in [...]

Not Hardy In Hardin

Jerry Puffer — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:54:10 +0000

There’s a report this morning from “Talkative” Todd-The-Custom -Cutter-Guy. Todd his crew arrived in Texas on Sunday afternoon & on the way down, they took a look-see at the crops in Hardin & said that they look “tough”. He says the WORST crops were in western Kansas, starting from the southern edge of Nebraska & [...]

A Nice Thing

Jerry Puffer — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:44:03 +0000

I’ll be up at the Marias Heritage Center this evening (Tuesday) at 6 o’clock, reading more “Montana History” & continuing with our current read, “Glacier From the Inside Out: Best stories from The Inside Trial” edited by Ray Djuff & Chris Morrison, a truly delightful presentation. “Montana History” reading at the Heritage Center is certainly [...]

It's Like The Ricky Nelson Tune

Jerry Puffer — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:31:03 +0000

It’s a regular “Garden Party”! I’m blogging about the annual Chester Garden Club Plant Sale scheduled for this Monday. The Annual Chester Garden Club Plant Sale will be held at Our Saviors’s Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall from 10 in the morning until 4 o’clock on Monday afternoon. It’s going to be a lot of fun [...]

A Report From The Field

Jerry Puffer — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:41:35 +0000

“Talkative” Todd, the custom cutter guy from up north of the border, says he’s ready to move south. Todd said that there is no rush to get there, other than to take a “look-see” at the crops. The “experts” are talking a 37 bushel average(!) while the producers are jacking their jaws about 5 to [...]

Take The Plunge

Jerry Puffer — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:48:56 +0000

We’re happy to announce that the Shelby Water Otters Swim Team will be holding their 2013 signups this Monday from 3:30 to 6 o’clock at the Shelby Elementary School Cafeteria. The 2013 sign ups for the Water Otters are for kids ages 5 to 18. There’s nothing more fun than the water & we’re ready [...]

What Is Farmacology

Jerry Puffer — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:51:16 +0000

“Farmacology” is NOT the course Conrad area farmer Gary Gollehon majored in back in college! Rather it’s the title of the fascinating new hardcover book from Daphne Miller. “Farmoacology” doesn’t frighten me because I recently did a Puffman Blog on “Foodology”! Mller’s “Farmacology:What Innovative Family Farming Can Teach Us About Health & Healing” is hot [...]

Floods And Fire

Jerry Puffer — Tue, 07 May 2013 14:41:05 +0000

I’ll be up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby again this evening (Tuesday) at 6 right after I get done having fun on the Puffman Show this afternoon. We’re currently enjoying reading, “Glacier From the Inside Out”, & the past couple of Tuesdays, we’ve been reading a section entitled “Glacier’s dragons: floods & [...]

Head Them Off At The Knees

Jerry Puffer — Wed, 01 May 2013 14:44:06 +0000

This morning, I received the latest precipitation report for the month of April from the Knees. Living here in the Golden Triangle & north central Montana, I don’t have to tell you where the Knees is! The Knees, not to be confused with the Big Arm over in the Flathead Valley. 1.3 inches of snow [...]