Just across the street from Enzo’s, this slightly lower class pub—lower than Enzo’s that is—serves some very nice pizza and other things that go well with beer and wine of varying sorts. Nothing really fancy. Didn’t see much of seafood on the menu.

In contrast to its neighbor it is open for lunch. Service good, but then we were there early for lunch. “You guys” was standard form of address. I guess that is a requirement for young lady serving wenches in all Billings restaurants, or is that all of the good old USA. On the pizzas you had several choices including some really thin crust if that is what you want. Clam chowder was good. So was lemonade and Arnold Palmer.

This female bear, I think the proper term is sow, had no cubs to be seen so there was little danger. This looks like a good place to meet your friends after work or stop in for a late evening snack and drink too.

I didn’t realize that this is a Montana chain and is located in all the major cities of Montana and some of the smaller ones too. And also in Coeur d’Alene Idaho.

Looking north on Broadway

Lunch at The Soup Place allows me to check out what is happening to the Babcock Building. Things look like they are moving along. Zpizza is already open for business. The theatre has apparently never closed. I don’t know if they will have condos in the spaces above the retail locations on the ground floor.

This was originally the site of an opera house which burned down in 1906. Rebuilt as a theatre but gutted by fire again in 1935.

The Babcock Theatre has risen again and will be joined by some new retail spaces.

In the summertime there is a lot of sidewalk activity, restaurants expanding and retail displays of shoes and clothing and a few places to just sit and think too.

Mrs. Shakespalin irritating the ruling class

Bill Kristol in WeeklyStandard.com defends Mrs Palin’s combining two words to form a useful new word. I remember when one of my daughters, I forget which one, told me that a mosquito bitched her on the arm. I knew exactly what she meant the moment it was out of her mouth.

Refudiate: a combination of refute and repudiate, combining the “intellectual act of refuting with the practical or political act of repudiating.” I doubt that Mrs Palin knew about this before inadvertently thumbing her Blackberry. This combination seems to fit well with the Tea Party’s mix of “arguers and activists” according to Kristol.

Walking Down Grand Near Senior High

I couldn’t help notice this sign on Grand Ave about 1/2 block from Billings Senior High. This is a really good location I suppose for those in high school, both students and teachers and staff I suppose, who suffer from various incurable painful diseases.

Then I saw the op-ed in today’s Billings Gazette with the excellent cartoon accompanying.

Deep in the Heart of Texas

But I’m pretty sure the Democrats these days believe that politics is always and only about getting elected and the re-distribution of power, so they only have themselves to blame if we respond in kind.

I'm guessing this road will lead to DisneyLand.

There is no reason to be surprised at a highway being named after our Community-Organizer-in-Chief. I mean, have you forgotten about the Nobel Prize that he won while running for his present job? That was for Peace. This one may be for Justice. Or is there a Prize for Bamboozling? If there is, then I think we should nominate by acclamation BHO.

I found this on this website.

Guys watching other guys run big machines

This is from the junction of Rimrock Road and Terrace. Some very large pipes were being moved around and put in place in the ground.

Shasta Daisies in front garden near rusty pheasant mailbox

Catalpa tree in bloom in back yard with UFO

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