There Is Something About Billings

This is from our front yard in early November. I like the colors. Most of the leaves have been blown away somewhere by mid- November. Still not very cold but windy at times. No snow since our 3 day storm in October.


On the way to lunch a couple of days ago I was musing on this and that when I came across this little museum. Perhaps it is a franchise with headquarters in Billings. I don't know.


Stella's makes some good food and is one of the few places in town where you can get some decent corned beef hash with eggs over easy done right. It is located kitty-corner from the Post Office downtown, one of those imposing office buildings that you see left over from a generation or two ago. See below. They have the usual banks of little metal boxes where you can pick up your mail if it isn't delivered I guess but there is a lot of room around the edges and on the 2nd and third floors that are supposedly occupied by lawyer's offices that I never heard of, and then there is something called the Postal Inspector General offices. I wonder what they do. You probably have to have a secret handshake to get into this part of the building. Below is the view that greets you on exiting Stella's.


I have long had a fantasy that our government will one day have an open house for all their offices in town, just to show us ordinary folks what wonderful things they are doing for us. Actually I first thought of this when I worked for Uncle Sam in Washington DC. Wouldn't it be great if our public servants would all publish a paragraph on what exactly they do in a typical week.

Now that I think on that, maybe that is not a good idea. Have you ever tried to figure out what office to call by looking in the phone book? I thought so. Perhaps our masters could form another branch just so that us commoners could find out the number of a place we need to call. Not want to call, of course, but sometimes we need to.