Today is the first day of the Garfield County fair. Taylor has spent quite a bit of time out there doing whatever teenage girls do at a small town county fair. It’s a good time to hang out and visit with familiar faces. When it’s fair time here, it’s the time for all past members of the community to come home. I think this may be one of the reasons Jamie and Jenna chose this weekend to come up and get the girls. Over the past 20 years that we’ve been coming to this community, the older girls have felt a special connection with the kids in their class. They actually became a part of their class – being included in class pictures and the roll call – each summer. When certain life events happen here, they’re included. At the time – when they were being forced to go to school here – I don’t think they really appreciated the fact that mom and dad pushed them into going. I think they’re glad it happened now, though. So, I guess Taylor is continuing the tradition of being in Jordan, MT and catching up with her “classmates”. Callie didn’t start school here. However, she’s got a great buddy here. They become pretty inseparable when they get together again. Collette has been a great friend to Cal and vice versa. We’ve been anxiously waiting for Collette and her family to come home from their nearly 2 week trip to Columbia, MO.  They went the annual Fur Trapper Convention and peddled their “lures”.

Remember the “Fur Country Lures” cap Jim has on his head on my facebook page? Collette belongs to this family. I knew her mom (Nicole) when she was only five years old. She’s (Nicole) the daughter of Charlie and Pohney Murnion. Nicole’s other siblings have a special place in my heart, as well. I feel like they’re all family! Anyways, Nicole and her husband, John, have four children. Collette and Callie mean quite a bit to each other. As change is sure to happen, the town of Jordan is going to change for Callie and the rest of the Zeorian’s when John and Nicole move to Lusk, WY. The town will take on a completely different feel for all of us when they leave. We’ll still have wonderful friends here but Taylor and Callie have been adopted by this family (and me and Jim, too). It will not be the same when they’re in Lusk and we can’t have supper together nearly every night. Maybe it’ll be a good time for Collette to just tag along with us when we travel through Lusk on our way up here next year. It’ll be a little more challenging for them to get to spend as much time together but I have a feeling we’ll get if figured out!   We’re also anxiously waiting for Curt, Jamie and Jenna to get to “J” town! Our little 40 ft. home will be full again 🙂 And, as I mentioned in an earlier post, Sunday will roll around way too fast and I’ll be pretty blue – once again. I’m so silly when this happens. I start bawling when I see their towels lying around and the empty beds. It’ll take me several days to get into the new normal again. I should be used to this, right? But I’m not.  So, right now, we are anxiously looking out the window hoping each noise we hear is the car from home. Jim took a quick trip to the Lewistown area this afternoon. We’re anxiously waiting for his arrival too. Once he gets back, he’ll be able to give me an idea of whether or not we’ll be heading a little further west for more acres. If we head that way, we’ll have to load the combine tomorrow and get it headed that way. Unless plans change, we’ll take the trailer house over after the rest of the family leave on Sunday. One thing I learned a long time ago with harvest is…”hurry up and wait”. And the other one that Grandma had to remind me of constantly was…”one day at a time”. I can hear her singing that song to me as I type!