Mokihana's Garden

I’m trying to unpack, catch up on work and get used to the time change. However, I would like to gleefully report that males in Montana and Idaho thankfully DO NOT wear their jeans down to below their butts. What a relief! They looked so normal! Not once did I see some guy’s boxers as he leaned over or watch anyone trying to run while trying to hold their jeans up with their knees. What a relief.

No pants on the ground for a whole 10 days! Bliss! Then today at the gas station, there they were again. The attendant’s belt was down below his butt. Take me back to Montana. Please!

We’re back home after a fabulous visit with Cousins. Was coming home from da post office pau pick up all our mostly junk mail, and there in the road by our house were five goats wandering around! Wassap wit dat?

So I saw the neighbor was home and knocked on his door (actually, he’s the owner of the vacant rental house and just happened to be there). “Eh, did you know your goats are out on the road?”

Nope, he didn’t. Five of them out there, wandering along the road. So between the two of us we got the goats back in the pasture, which is full of new, yummy grass to much on.

The neighbor said to me, after thanking me for my help, “As if they don’t have enough to eat in here!”

He was fixing the fence as I left.

I stay Montana!! Yep, again. We’ve been here for a week with Cousins and Auntie in Bozeman. Heading home tomorrow. It’s been a fabulous visit again, and oh, how I love Bozeman! We took a wonderful drive up through the Bridger Mountains the other day… be still my heart! The beauty was out of this world!

So after the Mystery Road Trip Revealed stay pau, if you want, you folks can join me on another Montana advencha!

Mahalo to Julie who’s taking care of stuff at home for us so that we could make this trip.

I’m so excited! Sometimes Nolemana gives me a hard time for wanting to take so many photos, but because I do, I’m now an official honorary Japanese. I was one before because of my hānai sistah Kikue, but never had the official title. Now I do, thanks to her and AFK! Chee hoo!

You might have already guessed this, probably did, all you akamai readers, that we wanted to see Old Faithful Geyser as long as we were so close. My good friend Linda had suggested that we take the time to zip over there from Bozeman, and that’s exactly what we decided to do. She’d told me that it wasn’t to be missed, because who knew when we’d be able to be in the area again? As I said before, I was so grateful for her suggestion, because we wouldn’t have missed this trip for anything!

This is the sign for the Norris Canyon area:

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I’m back from the beach; it was a wonderful weekend with my friends. Now I have to get the next batch of road trip photos edited and uploaded, so while you’re waiting, you catch watch a video I took over the weekend. If you hunger for the ocean like me, this might help. Sorry for the jerkiness at the end; it was COLD outside!