Charity Never Faileth and Love is a Battlefield

So I'm in the parking lot at Sam's Club with a basketful of stuff, right next to my car, when a guy starts talking to me out of the blue, and he's standing right at the other end of my basket. After a second or two, I realize he has some kind of emotional or physical difficulty, and he's asking me for money. He has two dollars crumpled up in his hands. He's muttering something about helping out a stranded person.

I open my door and pull out my planner to see what cash I have for his "bus fare to Salt Lake" which costs $5. He says, "You look like Pat Benatar." I reply, "Hmmm, she's old now. ok."

I hand him a 5 and he mumbles something about Steve Perry and some other thing. Then he quickly noticed that I did not give him the $20 bill that was in my see-through planner pouch. And he says, "More money??" I say, "No, 5 is good. That's what you said you needed for the bus." Then he mumbles something else about Pat Benatar. I reply, "Sorry? I can't understand you very well." And he sticks out his tongue at me and quickly ambles away!

I heard him yelling something to another customer 100 feet away who was putting her groceries in her car. And then he continued west out of the lot.

It was weird. I figure, you know, try not to judge, do something nice, get a warm fuzzy. NOPE. No warm fuzzy. More of a sense of frustration and just plain weirdness. Oh well.

Glacier Beauty

We just got back from our family reunion at Glacier National Park. It was gorgeous and fun. Here are a few of my favorite shots of the 500 I took.



























Dad and the girls




Jacob mugged for me at this pretty little pond.


























Emma in the shade of a waterfall




















Group hiking Logan Pass to Hidden Lake

Surprise, Dad!

Our hike led us to scenic Hidden Lake overlook












































This is a really awesome gorge.

A cool waterfall--one of many!

Batter up for Sandlot baseball!

Did You Realize????

Today is a very cool day numerologically. Early this morning I realized it was 7-8-9. Then I started thinking out loud and realized at 12:34.56 it was 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9.

THAT doesn't happen very often!

Hope you had a great day!!