ONE FINE
DAY
THE HORN OF PLENTY BY BILL MUHLENFELD
EAGLE MOUNT AND www.distinctlymontana.com
Mary Peterson wondered how many decades it would take to use 30,000 dry erase markers. It was not the typical problem the executive direc- tor of a nonprofit faced every day, though the NBC producer had warned her. “You have to understand. If you need toilet paper, you have to tell me in tons, not rolls.” So there were the markers, the 110 riding helmets, an offer of 10,000 tubes of sun-block and thousands of gallons of Sherwin-Williams paint to consider, alongside a royal flush of new appliances, a John Deere utility vehicle, 200,000 frequent flier miles, a climbing wall, zip-line and ski passes, a wagon-load of hay, nine acres of land, a horse named RC, a mas- sive bloom of solar panels, and a trailer truck full of goodies. It was like a Cat-in-the- Hat Christmas come early, both weird and wonderful.
MICHAEL BLEVINS
IT WAS LIKE A
CAT-IN-THE-HAT
CHRISTMAS COME EARL
Y ,BOTH
WEIRD AND WONDERFUL.
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