March MADNESS!!!

Each year, I have a few weeks of pure pleasure watching the NCAA basketball tournament and get to see the improbable happen. Teams that should not have a shot at winning, DO! Davids beat Goliaths and catch lightning in a bottle for 40 minutes of basketball. It seems like the last untainted parts of college sports, but that’s changing. NIL will croak it. BUT I will still enjoy it to the max. 

I disconnect even more from society when the tourney is on. It starts the Friday before tourney selection. Watching conference championships and seeing who will fill my bracket before play starts and turns the bracket to trash. I’m always thrilled to have my bracket shredded because it means magic happened.

And then there is Montana weather. All winter long was stress about how warm it was and how low the snowpack was. Somebody, somewhere told Mother Nature that Montana winter was over and Mother Nature said, “Hold my beer.” Almost 2 feet of snow at the cabin. Some parts of the Rocky Mountain Front got 4 feet. Spring runoff will be special and fire concerns are way down. 

And it’ll be 70 degrees in 3 days on St. Patrick’s Day. 

Life is good. 


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