Breakfast, load the buses and off to the WWII Memorial and FDR Monument.  It is tricky loading up luggage and 60 wheel chairs on three buses but what a great Big Sky Honor Flight crew we have.  You can tell that this group has done this now four times since 2012.  Hats off to the honor flight support team!  They have this down to a science.

Everybody seems to be in good spirits this morning in anticipation of the days patriotic activities.  My two vets, Collin and Burl are full of energy and really don’t want anything to do with the wheel chair that I have for them.  These two 88 year olds are full of energy and excitement.

Enjoy the photos and please join us as we fly back to Billings at about 8:30 tonight.  Please meet at Billings Logan Field and welcome back our states WWII Vets.

Say hello to nine month old Melody, our Adoptable Pet of the Week! Melody is a female Chihuahua mix. Melody gets along well with cats and is a Social Butterfly! She loves to play and is very eager to snuggle and give kisses.

Sex: Female

Spayed / Neutered: Yes 

Microchipped: Yes

Adoption Fee: $250.00*

Who do I contact to adopt? 

Help For Homeless Pets

2910 Hannon Road

Billings, Montana 59101

Phone: (406) 896-1700

Email: hhpmontana@aol.com

Official Website: www.helpforhomelesspets.org

*Adoption Fees go directly to pay for the costs of maintaining the facility, food, and medical expenses for all of the animal residents of  Help For Homeless Pets. The shelter operates solely on the generous donations of the local Billings Community.

The winner of the contest will receive the following:

$50.00 Gift Card to Fancy Sushi

A  pair of Ladies Jeans from Shipton’s Big R

Choose from one of three brands:

Rock 47

Booty Up

Ultimate Riding Jeans

 One night’s stay in the brand new Northern Hotel

Say hello to Gem, our Adoptable Pet of The Week! Gem is a three year old Pomeranian that loves to travel in a car and walks on her leash. She’s a bit shy at first, but once she has warmed up to you she’s a true “people” dog. Gem is comfortable being around Cats and other Dogs. 

Sex: Female

Spayed / Neutered: Yes 

Microchipped: Yes

Adoption Fee: $250.00*

Who do I contact to adopt? 

Help For Homeless Pets

2910 Hannon Road

Billings, Montana 59101

Phone: (406) 896-1700

Email: hhpmontana@aol.com

Official Website: www.helpforhomelesspets.org/

*Adoption Fees go directly to pay for the costs of maintaining the facility, food, and medical expenses for all of the animal residents of  Help For Homeless Pets. The shelter operates solely on the generous donations of the local Billings Community.

Say hello to Tucker, he’s a 10 week old puppy and our Adoptable Pet of The Week!

Tucker is a 10 week old puppy that’s very excited about to find his Forever Home. His siblings have been adopted and so has his Mother. Tucker is of course everything we love about puppies. His fur is soft, he fits in your arms, and he makes every woman in a 50 yard vicinity go “Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh”. But don’ let his small stature fool you, taking one look at this little guys feet and we’re guessing he’s going to grow to about 90 pounds.

Breed: Shepherd / Lab / Husky 

Spayed / Neutered: Yes 

Microchipped: Yes

Adoption Fee: $275.00*

Tucker comes to us from our friends at Help For Homeless Pets a local Billings “No Kill” Animal Rescue. He’s already learning to alert humans when he needs to go outside thanks to the efforts of his foster family. Of course he’s usually ready to go about 5:00am, so if you’re looking for a puppy with a built in alarm clock than look no further!

Who do I contact to adopt Tucker? 

Help For Homeless Pets

2910 Hannon Road

Billings, Montana 59101

Phone: (406) 896-1700

Email: hhpmontana@aol.com

Official Website: www.helpforhomelesspets.org/

*Adoption Fees go directly to pay for the costs of maintaining the facility, food, and medical expenses for all of the animal residents of  Help For Homeless Pets. The shelter operates solely on the generous donations of the local Billings Community.

We are very happy to announce that Scarlet was adopted over the weekend and is now enjoying her much deserved life in her Forever Home. A big Thank You from all of us and Help For Homeless Pets to Scarlet’s new owners. 

Help For Homeless Pets

2910 Hannon Road

Billings, Montana 59101

Phone: (406) 896-1700

Email: hhpmontana@aol.com

Official Website: www.helpforhomelesspets.org/

*Adoption Fees go directly to pay for the costs of maintaining the facility, food, and medical expenses for all of the animal residents of  Help For Homeless Pets. The shelter operates solely on the generous donations of the local Billings Community.

Super Bowl Sunday is not an American holiday. Well, not an official one, anyway. But if it was, it’d be the best one, by far.

Even if you don’t like sports, the Super Bowl is something you know about and make plans for in advance. It’s a great day for humanity.

This year, we’ll be treated to Super Bowl 47. In honor of this most American of festivities, we give you 47 reasons why this most American of events is so darned amazing:

Source: 47 Reasons Why the Super Bowl Is Awesome

Female fans of several major college teams are showing their school pride on Twitter. And, by school pride, we mean their boobs — showcased in cleavage-baring, skin-tight college shirts in self-shot pictures posted to Twitter.

The college-team boobs trend started last February, when University of Kansas student Tiffany Kent tweeted a photo of her boobs in a KU shirt, with the hashtag #kuboobs, as the Jayhawks were attempting to rally in a game against arch-rival Missouri. Kansas won, and Kent now has more than 20,000 followers at the Twitter handle @KUboobs. The Internet: where you can meet 20,000 random dudes who wouldn’t recognize you from the neck up.

Not to be outdone, fans of Oklahoma, Indiana, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Nebraska and many other schools have created their own @boobs profiles featuring pictures of coeds and fans showing off their team spirit by displaying their boobs like they were over-ripened cantaloupes stuffed into much-too-small plastic shopping bags. Examples? Of course you can see some examples; we’re all better visual learners:

Talk about a ‘Super Conference.’ When are the BCS (Boob Championship Series) rankings due out?

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Source: College Girls Show Team Spirit the Only Way They Know How — Putting Their Racks on Twitter

In general, the words lingerie and football have about as much in common as the words meth addict and day care. Maybe that’s why the all-female Lingerie Football League just changed their brand name to the Legends Football League.  You will be relieved to know that they didn’t change their uniforms very much, and they’re still awesome. The league, which expanded to include Canada in 2012, will swell to 16 teams in 2013 with the addition of the Atlanta Steam and the Omaha Heart. No word on whether the league will continue naming their teams after female soft rock outfits and soap operas when it expands to Europe in 2015.

The uniforms used by the players of the LFL also will change slightly, but, as evidenced by the following picture gallery, the ladies won’t be running around in sweatpants and jorts. The guys who attend these games on the other hand (ahem, us) will remain slobs.

The league has decided to use the term ‘performance wear,’ rather than lingerie, for the new garb, noting that lingerie hurt its credibility (just like J. Edgar Hoover!). If a the woman in our lives told us that she was wearing ‘performance panties,’ we’d ask for a full list of showtimes, and book early and often.

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Source: Women’s Football League Drops Lingerie For Legends

It’s been a while since I’ve been to a bar. It’s been even longer since I’ve been to a bar in Billings. The last time I started in at noon? I couldn’t even tell you. Well I was able to check all three of those off of my list last weekend with the Parrothead Pub Crawl, a fundraiser for the Ramsey Keller Memorial.  What’s a pub crawl? First you go to a bar, then leave that bar and go to another bar. Rinse and repeat until all of the bars on the list have been checked off or you’ve checked out. Depending on the theme there might be an activity at the bars beyond getting the next round of drinks for your teammates but that’s not necessarily a requirement.

So what are we talking about here? Seven bars in seven hours. Three questions at each bar and a prize at the end of the whole ordeal. Starting with Bones on Broadwater at one end and The Vig in The Heights and everywhere in between there was actually quite a bit of ground to cover. Rather than giving a rundown on each and every bar I’ll just say that some were definitely better than others (The Western made us wings and The Brew Pub had fantastic service). Long story short: Pub crawls are a lot of fun. Pub crawls for a great charity are even better. This little burg is a little short on these sorts of things but should you happen to hear about an upcoming pub crawl I would highly recommend attending.For more information see the Ramsey Keller Memorial website.

I know what you’re saying, “This was weeks ago. Why are you posting this now?” Good question! It’s because this weekend the Parrothead folks are doing another charity event for the Ramsey Keller Memorial. It’s called Get Freaky in the Tiki held Saturday, October 27th at 1728 Lampman Drive, Suite B (behind Ziggy’s) and starts at 7pm. There’s a suggested donation of $25 per person or $40 for a couple.

Spectacular Video from KTVQ:

At about 7:30 p.m. on Thursday night Laurel Auto Parts on East Main in Laurel went up in flames!  The building continues to smolder.

The building had no employees present at the time of the blaze.  The flames were so massive at the intitial start of the blaze that Palace Bar and Lanes and Fat Jacks were evacuated.

Fire crews from Billings, Molt and Park City assisted the Laurel Volunteer Fire Department in knocking down the blaze.

Wayne Halvorson has owned the store since 1960.  The building is a total loss.  No official cause has been determined

Check out our photos from both the Mattress Dominoes on Friday and the Bed Races and Concert on Saturday.

Mattress Dominoes at Mattress Land on Friday

Hope Fest on Saturday in Downtown Billings

And that is just a selection from the past week! What has Facebook become? I find myself yearning for the days when my feed was cluttered with notifications of a friends virtual farming acumen, or the occasional video of a monkey smoking a cigarette. It’s the 21st century version of this:

Everyone over the age of 35 knew someone who had this poster on the back of a bedroom door. Since it was usually you’re buddies hot older sister, you could never make fun of them lest they know you had been in the room leafing through their diary or rummaging about in their underwear drawer.

• Album of the Year : ‘The Suburbs’ — Arcade Fire
• Song of the Year: ‘Need You Now’ — Lady Antebellum
• Best New Artist: Esperanza Spalding
• Best Country Song: ‘Need You Now’ — Lady Antebellum
• Best Country Album: ‘Need You Now’ — Lady Antebellum
• Record of the Year: ‘Need You Now’ — Lady Antebellum
• Best Rock Song: ‘Angry World’ — Neil Young
• Best Rock Album: ‘The Resistance’ — Muse
• Best R&B Song: ‘Shine’ — John Legend & The Roots
• Best R&B Album: ‘Wake Up!’ — John Legend & The Roots
• Best Rap Song: ‘Empire State Of Mind — Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
• Best Rap Album: ‘Recovery’ — Eminem
• Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: ‘Just the Way You Are’ — Bruno Mars
• Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: ‘Bad Romance’ — Lady Gaga
• Best Female Country Vocal Performance: ‘The House That Built Me’ — Miranda Lambert
• Best Pop Performance by a Group or Duo with Vocals: ‘Hey, Soul Sister (Live)’ — Train
• Best Pop Vocal Album: ‘The Fame Monster’ — Lady Gaga