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Rosebud Community Chapel, Rosebud, Montana

From its origins as a railroad siding established by the Northern Pacific in 1882, Rosebud grew into a bustling homesteading community. The town boasted 300 residents when Fred and Mary Mefford arrived from the Midwest in 1896, bringing with them a strong religious faith and a commitment to community building. A devout Episcopalian, Mary founded a sewing circle, which evolved into an active church guild, and taught Sunday school. Fred arranged for the Miles City minister to travel regularly to Rosebud to hold services in the schoolhouse. In 1906 they decided to build a church. Fred donated the land and hired local builder Alfred Drescher to supervise construction. He also wrote off a $300 debt owed to his hardware store in exchange for cottonwood logs, which farmer Billy Merrill cut from his land and hauled to the church site. The resultant square-notched log church, named St. Philip’s Episcopal, features decorative shingles in the south gable end; a square, hip-roofed bell tower; and Gothic arched windows with stained glass imported from Bavaria. Nearly everyone in town (Episcopalians and non-Episcopalians alike) helped with construction in some way. Store owner Rod McCrae, who also served Rosebud as postmaster, justice of the peace, and first schoolteacher, donated the church bell, which came upriver by steamboat. Proceeds from a St. Patrick’s Day dance provided money to purchase the church’s first organ. In 1968, the Episcopal diocese sold the building; today, the church operates as the Rosebud Community Chapel.

So What Say You?

From Brett Weinstein.   Food for thought.

For the first time in 300,000 years of human evolution, we removed the cost from the single biggest reward nature ever invented — sex and pair-bonding. Reliable birth control + abortion = you can now cash the evolutionary lottery ticket without paying the 20-year mortgage of pregnancy, diapers, sleepless nights, and college funds. Result? An entire generation of 18–35-year-olds walking around with the energy, libido, hormones, and protective instincts that evolution spent millions of years calibrating for child-rearing… but with zero actual children. That energy didn’t disappear. It got redirected. Heather Heying’s observation is brutal: young women especially began treating ideologies the exact way evolution wired them to treat babies. Climate change, social justice, whatever the cause of the month is — it gets defended with literal mama-bear ferocity, the same neurochemistry that once guarded a toddler from predators now guards an abstract idea from wrong think. And now Elon is promising the second shoe is about to drop: AI-driven abundance will make money as “free” as sex became in the 1970s. Both of evolution’s primary carrots — mating and resource acquisition suddenly cost almost nothing. Weinstein’s ice-cold question: When producing and protecting actual children is no longer the central organizing principle of adult life… and when creating wealth is no longer required for status, security, or attracting a mate…What is left to give a human life direction, meaning, and structure? Are we about to become a species that invents bigger and bigger dragons to slay just to feel alive? Or do we drift into total listlessness?

Need to Hide Something?

Ask anyone the name of the last book they read.

You won't get an answer.

America has stopped reading.

It's reels now.  Social Media has them hooked.

If you need to hide anything just put it in a book.

Have you ever seen a country fall so fast as it did with the Covid scare?

Huge swaths of our population are utter buffoons.

Education isn't even education anymore.

In a couple of generations, the kids will be verified retards.

They're more than halfway there already.

You know it's the truth.

Most of America is scared of the truth.

Don't forget these clowns.............

Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren,

J.B. Pritzker, Ro Khanna, Zohran Mamdani and

Hasan Piker all endorsed Graham Platner.

Never forget.

Life in America after Covid

I’m truly sorry if you fell for the lies.

If you took a medication your job, your politicians, and your favorite celebrities all swore was safe.

As a paramedic, it’s been exhausting picking up the pieces after the big lie.

The number of people we’ve lost and the growing number who look at me in the back of the ambulance and say, “I wish I never took that shot,” it weighs on me.

They won’t say it. They won’t admit they were wrong.

All I can say is, I’m sorry.

Harry Fisher
Paramedic

Ghost Ranch 2025

 

As much as I love mule deer I couldn't pass on this buck!     I am having the deers age determined by the fine folks at MATSONS LABRATORY  in Manhattan, Montana.  https://matsonslab.com/     He's an 8 x 7, (At 72 I don't do scores, never have, never will) and my sons buck isn't too shabby either.    

The story on the harvest of these deer can be found here.

https://www.deanparisian.com/2025/12/ghost-ranch-fall-2025.html

In that blog entry I didn't tell how this buck arrived to the taxidermist, so here is some detail.   I wasn't looking to shoot a whitetail, we had planned to spend more time in mule deer country looking for a bomber.   I had some coyote traps working on my ranch and was on my way to the house after checking traps (without a deer rifle, like an idiot) when I happened to catch this buck running down a hot doe.   I had not seen the buck before but knew in about a nanosecond I needed a rifle in my hand.    They were headed into some thick Russian olive  trees off a major hay field and there were plenty of deer in the hay field.     I gunned it back to the house and grabbed a rifle, .243 semi-auto for those interested, threw on an orange jacket and took off on foot to try to find them.   I had to bob and weave some in the thick stuff so the deer in the hay field wouldn't see me yet get close enough for a shot opportunity.   I don't do long range shooting (500 yards plus , never have, never will).

It didn't take long.   He was interested in only one thing.  He was pushing the doe hard by himself, no other younger bucks were in the mix and it didn't take long to get a shot opportunity.   He didn't make "book" but he made the wall.  

Great character with lots of points!

 

Prairie Rattler at Ghost Ranch