Thoughts from the Middle of Nowhere

I saw this story about the weather this morning and the first thing I though to my self was, "why does Lorna Thackeray always do the weather stories for the Gazette?" Every time there is a weather story in the Gazette Lorna is the reporter and I can usually tell you what is going to happen right after words. The exact opposite of what sh reports. This time though her report is pretty neutral.

February weather extremes added up to a near-normal average temperature for the month, says Keith Meier, meteorologist in charge at the Billings National Weather Service Office.

The end result of chilling lows and stunning highs was an average temperature just 0.2 degrees above normal.

All the cold, cold temperatures were balanced by the too warm temperatures for a neutral February Temperature wise. Moisture was down in Billings, it was down here too but not as bad as Billings. It's dry there and I saw some farming going on that direction while here it's muddy and underneath the mud the ground is still frozen. No farming here.

What's the rest of the spring bring?

The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center found no clear signals one way or another for temperatures or precipitation for the rest of March. Its long-term forecast through May anticipates below-normal temperature this spring and an equal chance of below- or above-normal precipitation.

The rest of the spring is who knows what. Long range forecasts are terribly unreliable so deal with what comes and do your best.

Weather is not as important as good soil, and good soil is not as important as human harmony. Chinese proverb

The lack of the littlest thing, like a small letter n, makes things a little tough to read.

Judge, property initiatives proposed

A umber of other potetial ballot measures have bee submitted to the state Legislative Service Divisio for review ad draftig.

Amog the measures are proposals to:

Allow judges to be recalled by voters, but without a cause. If eough sigatures are collected to recall a official, voters decide whether to keep or remove the official from office. The curret law says elected officials ca't be recalled without a cause, such as physical or metal lack of fitess, icompetece, miscoduct or covictio of a feloy offese. Rep. Ed Butcher, R-Wiifred, is leadig this statuary iitiative effort to remove the cause requiremet for judges.

Restrict the "coveyace" of private property from oe party to aother through emiet domai. This is aimed at stoppig a cotroversial U.S. Supreme Court decisio that allowed the city of New Lodo, Co., to seize a retired couple's home, for paymet, so a shoppig ceter could be built that would yield more tax reveue for the city. Rep. Rick Maedje, R-Fortie, is headig efforts to pass statutory ad costitutioal iitiatives.
Limit the growth i state spedig to a percetage equal to the combied percetage of iflatio ad populatio growth. Rep. Scott Medehall, R-Clacy, is the leader i this attempt to amed the costitutio by iitiative.

I copied a big enough chunk of the article for you to get an idea, there is no little n in it anywhere. It sure makes it tough to read the article. I am assuming the Gazette will fix it at some point, or we can hope they are competent enough to fix it at least, so I posted enough for everybody to get the idea. In this day and age of spell checkers and word processors, how did this happen?

Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli