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34 pages to go...that's all that's left in the LOOOOOOOOOOOONGEST book I've ever read during Montana History up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby!. I'll be there tonight (Tuesday) at 6 o'clock SHARP, & hopefully, we can get at least half through the 34 FINAL pages of former Kalispell Attorney James E. Mu...

I've been anxiously waiting to hear from "Tall" Todd, the custom cutter guy who does his "magic" in our Golden Triangle every harvest season. Todd reports in Denver this week they had some 22 inches of snow with the interstate closed from Denver to Hays, Kansas...

Not OUR mayor, Mare-Lair, but New York City Mayor de Blasio, & New York City's Gab Man, Peter Franklin, the Gabby Gabby, will be on the line from the streets of New York City this afternoon (Tuesday) at 4:35 on the Puffman Show. The Crabby Cabby's doesn't much like the New Jersey Transit either. Hi...

Kirkus Reviews raves "Conquering Concussion" authored & researched by Mary Lee Esty, Ph.D. & C.M. Shifflett is 1 of the BEST Books of 2014. It received the Non Fiction Gold Winner Book Award, & I'm giving the book away tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman Sports Trivia! Time alone...

The Toole County Mental Health Advisory Board will be holding its monthly meeting at High Noon tomorrow (Thursday) out at Ringside Ribs here in Shelby. At tomorrow's noon meeting, they'll be addressing the "Goals & objectives" for the priorities that were determined to be important & feasible at last month's meeting. Speaki...

I blogged on "Wheat rust" on a previous Puffman Blog as we continue to celebration Ag Appreciation Month here in our Golden Triangle, & I mentioned recently, that the more mature winter wheat where our friend Todd, the custom cutter is cutting this month down in Texas, has significant rust problems; thought to be stem rust instead of stripe rust, but yet, nobody seems to know for sur

60 pages NOT years to go in our Charles E. Conrad saga up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby, & I'll be there tonight (Tuesday) to read more Montana History. I don't want to imply that this has been one LONG read, but the Korean War was going on & we "Liked Ike" when we started reading "Half Interest In a Silver Dollar: The Saga of Charles E. Conrad...

I've been looking for Todd, the custom cutter guy, who comes up to our Golden Triangle every harvest season, & I'm happy to report this morning that "Tall-Todd" is down in Vernon, Texas, where the winter wheat is from 1 inch up to 12 inches HIGH! Th...

'SPRING AHEAD FALL BACK." These are my 4 words of advice this morning on my Puffman Blog, which will be the LAST Puffman Blog I do when we're operating in the Mountain STANDARD Time Zone. Come tonight (Saturday), 2 in the morning, we'll all get up, turn the clocks ahead 1 hour, go back to bed, & when we get up at the crack of dawn, we'll all be running in the DAYLIGHT Time Zone. Th... Rea

If you missed touching base with the service officer for the Veterans Affairs Division yesterday (Wednesday,) here in Shelby & over in Cut Bank, you still have a shot this morning (Thursday.) The VA Service Officer will be at the Eagle Shield Center in Browning from 9 to 11 o'clock this morning. If...

I'll be reading more Montana History tonight (Tuesday) up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby, & we have fewer than 70 pages to go in former Kalispell attorney James E. Murphy's "Half Interest in a Silver Dollar; The Saga of Charles E. Co...

Not only am I looking forward to the Toole County Friends of the Library's monthly book sale this week, I'm ready to delve into a BOOK myself tonight (Tuesday) when I read more Montana History this evening up at the Marias Heritage Center here in Shelby...