The Crazies
☆ January 24, 2011
{The Crazy Mountains, Montana}
OK, so, I take back what I said in the post below. I love the deep country too, too much to pine for city life, a fact re-evidenced over the past few days. I spent a long weekend in Bozeman with my sister, and Bozeman ~ which isn’t even a city, just a college town ~ was far too much “civilization” for my taste.
The Yay’s and Nay’s of the outside world:
yay: olive bars
nay: ubiquitous cell phones
yay: gluten-free pizza
nay: cars cars cars cars cars cars
yay: organic groceries
nay: gray snow
{hmm… all my “yay’s” are food-related}
yay: seeing my sis
I’ll brave the crazies of civilization to visit her….
but an even better plan:
a
greenhouse
a
cheese cave
a
root cellar
a
guest cabin
YES.
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January 24th, 2011 @ 8:19 pm
Sounds like a plan… :-)
January 24th, 2011 @ 8:26 pm
oh hell, girl, you’re spoilt, as my dad would say– who much prefers the solitude of our ranch, but will clean up and face the crowd at mansion at turtle creek and saunter in to “needless markup” to return a sweater. you can’t take the cow out of the boy, but you can take the cattleman into the rich salon, and he or she will do just fine. :)
January 24th, 2011 @ 8:26 pm
friggin right. i am still in awe of the roof top garden, would love to see………..just minus the whole “city” part!
January 24th, 2011 @ 8:50 pm
A cheese cave?!
January 24th, 2011 @ 9:00 pm
Oh No Fair! I want a Cheese Cave! Of course I would need goats or cows first but hey, they would keep my chickens and gelding company.
Ummmm ya Cheese Cave…..
January 24th, 2011 @ 9:02 pm
I’ll just keep workin on it… (meant to say that before but hit “submit” too soon).
January 24th, 2011 @ 9:40 pm
Seeing your sis was well worth it, no doubt!
January 24th, 2011 @ 9:50 pm
I love the multiculturalism and all the smart, accomplished people I get to meet in Toronto, not to mention the limitless opportunities to learn and be the perpetual student. And once I graduate and become a naturopathic doctor, I will need to live somewhere where there are enough people to treat (and pay for my services so I can pay back that big pile of student loans) … but I often daydream of a greenhouse, a garden, a root cellar, and having a path through the trees just outside my door. And earth, oh the earth …
January 24th, 2011 @ 9:51 pm
Love it! ;)
January 24th, 2011 @ 9:55 pm
I am sure it was worth it to see K. And Bozeman is a pretty cool place, as college towns go!
January 24th, 2011 @ 10:31 pm
Yes, I get it! Love to be in D.C. and look at the monuments and all the busy people, but also love to get back home to suburbs with parks, trees, river and open space. Don’t think I’d choose the city if I had to choose one place…we were meant to be in the fresh air among trees and flowers.
January 24th, 2011 @ 11:16 pm
pokes head out of city slicker man cave for a moment…cheese cave? retreats to domain to sharpen pencil.
January 25th, 2011 @ 3:01 am
Life has taken me out here to WA State but home is the Big Open of Eastern Montana. I’m always happy when I reach Bozeman, and especially Bozeman Pass, as at that point, I start feeling like i’m back home,even though my brick-and-mortar home is still 250 miles away.
January 25th, 2011 @ 3:46 am
Guest cabins are awfully handy! There’s an enormous cabin culture in Finland, and very often, where there’s a cabin, there’s also a smaller, simple guest cabin. The guest cabins tend to be summer-only (no heating or electricity).
Maybe you’d like to see a couple examples of how the Finns do it (pics aren’t so great):
http://www.ikkalansaha.fi/Tuotteet/Vierasmokki.jpg
http://media.etuovi.com/itemimages/realty/www/209.2120/img7421123626119630855.jpg
http://www.jokakoti.fi/newfs2/opkk/49dc6/9234674_800x1067.jpeg
They’re quite quaint.
January 25th, 2011 @ 5:25 am
food related “yays” can all be delivered via UPS man! just a thought……whilst waiting for cheese caves and the like!
January 25th, 2011 @ 6:15 am
ok.. LOL…u made me google “cheese cave”…
very cool
January 25th, 2011 @ 7:35 am
A cave for aging and storing cheese would amazing (since I think that’s what a cheese cave is). And if I’m wrong, somebody “edumacate” me!
January 25th, 2011 @ 8:28 am
My husband is a young college professor, so we have to go where the jobs are. We’re currently surrounded by civilization, living on an odd little plot of land in the middle of a residential neighborhood. I’ve had to give up on the guest cabin, though our little old house does have a spare bedroom – but in the spirit of making the most of it, I’ve still got my root cellar and cheese cave, a barn that’s not quite big enough for our horse but plenty of space to hang garlic, and almost enough room to keep our heeler happy.
January 25th, 2011 @ 9:56 am
A cheese cave?? Fantastic idea, though not something I’d’ve connected with you before. As always, I look forward to hearing of your endeavors.
January 25th, 2011 @ 9:58 am
Aaaahhhhh, Bozeman! I grew up in a small town called Boulder, Montanan and eventually went to college in Bozeman. I now live in the midwest, but miss the mountains tremendously. We are moving back out west this summer, but to Oregon…not Montana. Though, I still make sure I visit Montana A LOT. (Everyone in my family lives in Montana….even my grandparents grew up there!)
As a side note: My sister owns a doggy daycare in Bozeman, called Bark City. It’s amazing to watch her walk amongst 20+ dogs and break up dog fights like it’s no big deal. lol.
January 25th, 2011 @ 10:52 am
I’m with you on the cell phones – its a part of society I HATE, especially in the grocery store.
January 25th, 2011 @ 10:58 am
Hahaha classic!
To be honest with you, when I saw the rooftop city garden the only thing I could think was how different the crops with taste because of the water/air quality they’re grown in.
I think the girlcrush is on the brilliant idea, more than the reality. :D
January 25th, 2011 @ 11:28 am
Sounds like more than a plan, Shreve – it sounds like heaven! Don’t forget to include a beehive, though. Not only will you have fabulous honey, you’ll be helping save the bees, who have been in dire trouble for some years now.
January 25th, 2011 @ 12:32 pm
They make cabins on wheels now, wee-house and “tiny home” you can see them on you tube, they got quite a write up in the magazines as the “housing of the future” as one will have to be mobile to get a job soon .
We left “civilization” because of the cell phones intrusion, people have nothing to say, mundane conversations, like ” yeah, I am crossing the street now, I am walking, I have saliva in my mouth”.
Good cheese, a runny old cheese, stinky and ripe will help digestion as it brakes down the food you ate, we ate it after every meal with salad before dessert. The smell ! Especially sheep milk cheese. It’s all friendly bacteria, the best. Everything here in the stores is pasteurized and does not process well. Luckily farmers in the mountains still do goat cheese and other kind the right way.
Off topic a bit, mountain herbs sent the order, and yes great stuff, I am switching to their brand and placed a second order. Got the mega pot of Chlorella and it is beautiful, the texture,color,the smell, it’s a trip, but one needs to get use to it and swallow it fast, making a tremendous grimace and a little dance !
January 25th, 2011 @ 4:55 pm
Cheese Cave! I must do research on this.
January 25th, 2011 @ 6:52 pm
We daily come to you because we don’t have a coyote, gorgeous red dirt or a farmily . . . we sit and drool.
January 25th, 2011 @ 8:25 pm
I liked JC’s comment. how true!
and off the point…the sky’s colors on the picture of “which toy will he take to bed?” today are spectacular! You are truly an artist with your camera.
January 25th, 2011 @ 9:07 pm
There’s just no place on Earth like Wyoming. I’m so thankful everyday that my heart led me here!
January 26th, 2011 @ 1:31 pm
Ha ha ha! Nice to know your Yays are about food. Almost all of my Yays are food related, too…My mother’s true legacy to her children. Good fresh food, almost always from scratch.
January 27th, 2011 @ 1:08 pm
Ya know, the busier you are, the more you get done, Shreve. Amazin woman. Just make sure ur always havin fun. I kinda believe you are.
January 29th, 2011 @ 10:14 pm
Have you read the book “Dirty Life”? It’s WONDERFUL…. I would wager that you’d love it!
February 1st, 2011 @ 1:17 pm
Shreve, my husband is all about the cheese cave! He has taken on cheese making as a body/mind-saving project and even schlepped his cheeses between two homes for awhile when we were commuting for my work. It’s such a happy thing, to have his cheeses quietly aging in their cave in the basement. And terribly exciting when one is ready to be opened and tasted! Long live home cheese-making. . . no matter where you live.
February 2nd, 2011 @ 5:19 pm
Shreve,
Thumbs up on the cheese cave… Ummm slowly-aged cheese, cave, drool! =)
Nay as well on the “cars cars cars cars”
I discovered the Daily Coyote/Honey Rock Dawn a few years back via “Vespa Vegabond”(which was awesome BTW!)
I too, took to the road on a smaller, two-wheeled conveyance and found on the horizon, and in places unknown to me, things I would’ve never seen/experienced in Seattle…
As you said, the city has it’s definitely got it’s own brand of crazy, as well as the Yays and Nays, which makes all of us city-folk even more fortunate to be able to indulge in the bar-none photos and tellings of your life!
Thanks again,
– Cory
December 16th, 2015 @ 7:23 pm
– So very cool that it happened to be US in this photo We’re so happy for you and your wiinnng entry Kelly and we’re even more thankful that we have a treasure of your amazing work to keep forever and show our little girl one day!!!! THANK YOU!04/16/2011 3:29 pm