Best of Billings

One thing about my family and I is we love wildlife. Moving to Billings 2 years ago has only increased those feelings. Last Fall we had herds of deer and other animals roaming through the yard. I actually almost hit one in my pickup when I got off work one night...

Something that I have thought about for years has been getting a tattoo. Every year say I am going to get one and every year I don't. It's almost a curse. I have ideas on what I would like to get but when it comes down to it, I either run out of time or something comes up to where it never happens...

You can have the most amazing treasures to sell.  You can arrange them in the most eye-catching way.  You can spring for coffee, donuts, and foot massages.  If people don’t know you’re having a garage sale, it won’t matter.  That’s why you’ve got to get the word out...

The last couple of days have been kind of rough. It's in times like these that a person tends to self reflect, whether it be on the good, bad or both. I too have done this over the past day or so. Sometimes you have the self pity moments wondering if what you're doing is good enough or even worth it...

Every garage sale lover dreams of finding that one-of-a-kind item for “real cheap”.  Be it a vintage lamp or a unique piece of home décor, the thought of picking up a special item for a good price drives many shoppers to go out week after week...

It's no secret. I support animal adoption from local shelters. I have done this a number of times and think it's important for all involved. My family and I have had some very close friends because of pet adoption and I wouldn't change those relationships for the world...

Yep, I am still a kid at heart. I love to sit down with my kids and watch cartoons. In fact, I get just as much fun out of them as they do. I attribute this to my childhood. When I was a kid, we had three TV channels at my house and the only time to watch cartoons was on Saturday morning...

As we grow into adults and get into our hustle and bustle of work life, it's easy to for us to forget our carefree, fun-loving life we had as a kid. I forgot how much I had given up until this last weekend. My oldest son came to me Sunday and asked if I would like to play football with him in the back yard...

There was a candy my wife and I had as kids that we loved, but growing into adulthood they seemed to just disappear. Over time we just kind of forgot about them until we went into Candy Town USA on the West End and were reminded of what we had lost...

In my teens to early 20's, my friends and I tried all sorts of things that were probably not the wisest ideas in the book. Fortunately enough, we all lived to tell the stories. From jumping from one pickup to another at 65 mph, to literally jumping our pickups, we had enough as young adults, or shall I say immature kids, to put a headstone over our heads...

I understand that with my larger family it can be hard to get a fast food order right. On the other hand, with the computer technology that fast food places are using, it really shouldn't be an issue, right? Billings has actually been pretty good about this and I want to thank the fast food restaurants that my family and I have visited for getting it right...

Remember when people would paint up the sides of buildings with advertisements instead of graffiti? Things were a lot more simple then. The family and I were sitting downtown Billings when we saw the old advertisement in picture above...