How to Have a Yard Sale in Montana

Man years ago, my mother and older brother went to Montana to visit my grandmother, who was planning to have a yard sale. The day they were getting things set up, it was blazing hot. Sweat poured from them as they worked to get everything done. One of my uncles, who lived nearby, came by and disconnected the heater, since the weather was getting so warm.

 

Finally, they finished setting up. They went to bed that night, and would start the yard sale tomorrow.

Well, tomorrow came, and it wasn't hot. In fact, great quantities of snow had fallen, and it was like the Arctic Zone outside. My poor family huddled in the garage, the door only partially open, trying to keep from freezing solid. My uncle came over again and reconnected the heater that they thought wouldn't be needed any more.

 

Did Nick Seluk ever live in Montana? Seems accurate.

Despite the weather, they actually made some decent sales. And some of the first things to go were the items that my grandmother wasn't sure would sell. One person bought a camp toilet for their fishing trips. Another person bought the regular toilet to use as a planter in their garden.

Real-Life Mythical Things

We've all consumed a lot of media in our time. TV shows, movies, books, songs... And in these things, there are sometimes stories including everyday things. Or at least, everyday to some. Today's blog post is about common things, or supposedly common, that not everyone has actually experienced.

You mean, you don't have weird beaver-duck hybrids with venomous spurs where you live? Inconceivable!

Three-Breakfast Chloe

A while back, my cousin woke up early, decided she'd feed the cats while she was up, then went back to sleep.

Later on, her partner got up, and both cats started begging for sustenance. He thought, "Well, Chloe always claims she's hungry, but if Ozzy is asking for food, then they must not have eaten." So he gave the cats their breakfast.

 

Oh woe! I am starving!

Not long after, this conversation occurred.

"Hey, I fed the cats for you."

"...But I fed them already."

Chloe has a reputation for trying to take Ozzy's food, so we assume she wolfed down her breakfast, then stole Ozzy's. So he was hungry, and my cousin's partner assumed they hadn't been fed yet. And Chloe, the queen of gluttons, got three breakfasts.

 

Yeah, you don't need any more food.

 

Very Superstitious... (epic music)

Writing on the wall...

Often we have little superstitions, things we do or don't do because we feel it'll have some impact on our luck. Even if there's no logical reason why it would affect things, we still stare really hard at the thrown pokeball, willing the lugia to stay inside the capsule with all our might. We avoid going anywhere or doing anything on a certain day, because things never go right then. Today's blog post is about those personal superstitions we have.

 

The Thanksgiving Plague

Some years ago, it was November, and my mother and I planned to go to my aunt's for Thanksgiving. It was just the two of us, so it didn't make sense to make a big dinner at home.

As the holiday approached, however, things changed. Mom came down with sort of cold or flu, and was miserable. She coughed, she hacked, she blew her nose. She stayed in bed, and wasn't interested in doing much of anything, even eating. At one point, she decided she was going to get up and go into the living room. She stayed out there for about an hour, then went "I'm going back to bed." I also commented that we probably didn't need the central heat on, because Mom was radiating plenty of heat.

A gamer's depiction of how high the fever was.