Wildlife: Bluebirds nesting at the foot of our hill!

Weather: Sweeping clouds overhead, lots of wind, and some rain.
It all gathers over Glacier National Park and really storms there!
(See Media Watch, below)

Charity Alert: The Hunger Site

Media Watch: NBA Playoffs -- Shaq is big and strong,
but the Detroit players physically outlast everybody else on his team, plus Karl Malone is hors de combat with a knee injury.
L.A. is down 3 games to 1 -- looks bad for them.
SPEAKING OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK!
I saw Heaven's Gate on Trio Network last night.
It was mostly filmed on the Blackfeet Reservation,
about two hours east of here. Nice scenery! They even gave the constant,withering wind out there a supporting role in the movie.
I know a little bit about the Johnson County, Wyoming range war
which it was based on, and Michael Cimino's infamously indulgent
flick bears little resemblence to the facts.
At the same time, FMC was showing My Darling Clementine,
another violent tall tale vaguely derived from a historical incident.
The shootout at the OK Corral was just one ugly episode
in a range war in Arizona that lasted over 20 years.
Trio Network is featuring FLOPS this month, but they don't quite
specify if they mean financial or artistic failures,
or just plain crummy movies that nobody liked. They did show a
documentary about "New Coke" from the 80's -- Now THAT was a FLOP!