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Research says one of the most common lies we humans tell ourselves is the one about how long a project will take to complete, which isn’t an explanation so much about why I don’t have a kitchen sink, but rather an explanation about why I’m surprised that I don’t have it up and running by now. This lapse between intended completion date and actual completion date is so common among humans that it has been studied and given a name: planning fallacy — a bias in our thought p...
Nature and the creatures it mothers think in seasons not days and dates. This weekend we transition to a whole new calendar year whilst, sadly, we remain stuck in the same old winter that we’ve been trudging through since early November which, by the way, made the recent solstice marking the first day of winter a mere ironic moment in Nature’s cold, white season. After about a month of winter weather, though, I start thinking it’s not smart to live here, then last week I rea...
The solstice arrived with very negative temps giving off a vibe that said “first day of winter” — in a doom-filled sort of “Game of Thrones” way — more than “brighter days are coming, Polyanna,” and, with a current temp of minus 39 just days before Christmas, I keep thinking of some good friends of mine who, on Christmas Day, feed treats to all their animals. Big deal, right? This happens in households all over Santa Country, mine included. It’s one thing, though, to give a...
I don’t mean to sound overly dramatic, but I think I may have proven the existence of God while I was at a church Monday. I know, no one can be more shocked than I am that this happened on a Monday. Just kidding, there’s nothing wrong with a Monday. I often have to live through as many as three Mondays in one week. No, the real shocker was me in a church. Not that there’s anything wrong with a church, it’s just not my natural habitat. Also of note, people find God in churche...
This whole idea started out lighthearted, but then it got all data-driven and serious. Leave it to the science nerds to research the life out of the fun. I had a thought about pronouns that made me laugh, y’know, on the inside. But the more I thought about it, the more I laughed until I actually laughed out loud. You’ve been there right? If not, you really need to reassess your approach to life. No doubt, a bunch of you are yawning and eye rolling, checking your wrist lik...
Now that I have a backsplash behind my stove and I’m not spending my time obsessively wiping grease splatters from my freshly painted wall as if I like to clean, I can think about things other than my own chaos, like bees. Yes, bees. Honeybees, in fact. I know. It’s exactly zero degrees out as I write this and who thinks of bees at this time of year in the northern tier of the U.S.? Beekeepers, that’s who, and a few cops in Massachusetts, but I’ve gotten ahead of myself...
A 15-year-old boy from Hays was charged with four counts of criminal endangerment, discharge of a firearm in city limits and vandalism after a caller reported finding a bullet hole in his vehicle Friday at 12:26 p.m. The incident occurred on U.S. Highway 2 Northwest near Holiday Village Mall. Havre Police Department said they will be issuing a press release with details on the incident, but it was not available before print deadline today....
I didn’t even know that cat pheromone diffusers existed. Really, who thinks of making an electricity driven device that dispenses feline happy-pheromones, so how was I supposed to know that I should have one for my cat, Tony-O. I mean, it sounds like something Hollywood made up to solve a problem in a movie or TV series. Like, they really like the stressed-cat backstory, but in the scene before the pivotal scene for the main character they need the cat bit to fade from focus s...
The Chippewa Cree Tribe Business Committee on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation swore into office its four new members this morning. Ethan Broncho, with 579 votes, Joseph “Joey” Rosette, 495, William “Corky” Corcoran, 468, and Lenore Myers-Nault, 422, were sworn in at 9 a.m., the tribe announced, and the Business Committee will have its reorganization meeting at 1 p.m. The four new members beat Daryl Wright II, 388, Theodore Edward Whitford, 346, Jody Ann Lamere, 324, and Michelle Billy, 306, in the general election Nov. 8. T...
After 33 years of threatening to leave our ancient, cheap trailer house, it finally took charge and kicked us out — which seems like an appropriately blunt-edged end to an often-contentious era and an appropriately chaotic beginning to the next. My husband, John, started the whole thing. I don’t mean that as an accusation, I’m just saying that after five years of plugging away at converting part of our big shop into a house and three years of him telling everyone that we’re...
A caller near Carpenter Park reported to Havre Police Tuesday at 3:39 p.m. seeing signs of a water main break in the area. Havre Public Works Director Dave Peterson said a water main break occurred near the intersection of Sixth Street and 12th Avenue. Water was shut off to a one to two block area for the night, but a crew was out first thing this morning to start the repair, he said. Peterson said that if all goes as planned, his crew should be done with the repair by this afternoon. Because the frost isn’t very deep into t...
Me on Wednesday: I should never, ever, ever listen to myself when I have an idea. Ever. I know this, and yet, I fall for it over and over, again. Repeatedly. Fair enough, I really do know better than to listen to myself. Or I should know that. After all the injuries — physical, mental and emotional. All the wrong roads followed, both actual and metaphorical. All the pride swallowed, the dignity lost, the ego trammeled. After all these years, I still get pulled in by myself s...
In a Tuesday webinar, “Where to Start on Housing in Your Community,” moderator and presenter Tara Mastel, a community development specialist for Montana State University Extension, said that most areas across the U.S. are experiencing a housing crisis, but rural Montana has different challenges that require different solutions, which can all be aided by getting off on the right foot. “Housing is really technical, it’s very expensive and it’s a complex problem with lots of diff...
Just be yourself. You are who you were born to be. You are unique and wonderful, don’t ever change. You’re never going to change, are you. Are you? A popular, widely supported theory about personality is that five traits pretty much account for our entire personality: neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness. Don’t worry, each trait is measured on a scale, not as an either/or situation. Yes, the science world agrees that we are a...
Hi-Line Junior Rodeo Team is holding a Junior Rodeo Saddle Series this fall with nine rodeos over three weekends from the end of October to mid-November and the entry deadline for the first weekend is Monday. Each weekend at the Bigger Better Barn, starting Oct. 29-30 and continuing Nov. 5-6 and 19-20, the group is holding three rodeos back-to-back over the two days for youth up to 18 years of age as of Jan. 1, 2022. Competitors who participate in six of the nine rodeos will...
How did we get where we are? Quantum entanglement is back in the lime light again after three scientists won the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics for their research in quantum whatever. The quick summary of quantum entanglement is when two particles, such as photons, electrons, neutrinos and molecules, link together in a certain way that no matter how far apart they are in space their state remains the same. (And as an FYI, state means condition or status not, like, Montana or...
According to the latest research, now I’m apparently supposed to thank my dad for trying to drown me when I was a child. That seems pretty messed up, right? Or fitting for these illogical times. In the swimmer’s version of that infamous parental order to “stop you’re crying or I’ll give you something to cry about,” when I was too scared to swim away from the lakeshore in water that was over my head, my own father picked me up and chucked me off the end of the dock. And h...
In honor of Indigenous People’s Day Monday, Oct. 10, Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation is holding its Ojibwe Neyio Spiritual Run, a biking, canoeing and running event that both the tribal community and the general public are invited to participate in to bring awareness to mental health, cancer awareness, suicide prevention and cultural awareness. The Spiritual Run will start at 8 a.m. at Crier Hill near the agency, said co-organizer Wilfred “Huck” Sunchild, with the course...
Authorities announced that two people have been arrested in connection with a string of vandalism incidents in Blaine and Chouteau counties that caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage and is linked to the shooting of a deer, all occurring late Aug. 17 or early Aug. 18. Jasper Wendland, 19, and Devon Nelson, 18, both were served warrants out of both Blaine and Chouteau counties, Blaine County Sheriff John Colby said Thursday. Both Wendland and Nelson were charged in...
We all know a bear or two, right? Maybe not personally, but we know about black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears and giant panda bears. Perhaps you also have heard of Eurasian brown bears, Asiatic black bears, Andean bears, sun bears and the unfortunately named sloth bear. Surely you’ve heard of koala bears, which aren’t bears at all, and teddie bears, which aren’t real bears, either, but for different reasons. If, though, you have never heard of water bears, you should sit b...
Science news this week was dominated by NASA’s DART spacecraft colliding with an asteroid on purpose and proving that mankind can deviate the course of an asteroid — while simultaneously dashing the dreams of oil-rig workers everywhere that they alone will be able to save earth, “Armageddon”-style, from a killer asteroid in the future. That’s right, all current and prospective roughnecks in the oil and gas industry can officially stop practicing their space walk — which is an...
A 35-year-old Fort Belknap man is accused of stabbing a man in Havre Thursday afternoon and is being held at Hill County Detention Center pending a felony charge. A caller on the 100 Block of 16th Avenue called 911 around 4:42 p.m. to report a man passed out in the yard, but after the man, Jared Charles Gibson, was awakened by the residents he became combative and stabbed a male victim in the arm, said Police Chief Gabe Matosich. Gibson left the scene and was found in the...
Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs but I love cats, too, and I feel bad that as a species cats have a continual public relations problem. I followed this UPI headline — “Missing cat returns home, rings doorbell in New York” — to a video of exactly what the headline promised. The story goes that a family moved to Mastic Beach, Long Island, and two weeks later their cat Lily didn’t come home one night, the family feared the worst. Four days later, the cat came home to the porch a...
My column headline is a paraphrase of a quote from the book and movie “Princess Bride” in which one character repeatedly comments “Inconceivable!” every time something outrageous occurs to thwart his plans, finally prompting another character to say, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” The reason for the paraphrase though, is because this time we’re talking about a candy rather than a word. Specifically, it’s a gummy bear-style cand...
PAWS of Chinook was asked last week by Blaine County Sheriff's Office to assist with rescue of an unknown number of dogs at a residence in western Blaine County. Alissa Hewitt, director and president at PAWS who is leading the effort, said they have rescued 31 dogs of varying ages, including six puppies still nursing. All but two border collies are of mixed breeding so far. They know of at least five more that still have to be trapped. All of the dogs seem to be nice, with som...
