Charlotte and Peggy coloring the table cover at The Rib & Chop
Livingston, Montana , a nice little town loaded with history. It was so nice to stay here at Peggy’s place because she had grown up as a child and had gone to high school here. Many of her classmates still live here. We got the inside story on a lot of the history of the town and the characters that have lived here including Calamity Jane.
A block down from Peggy’s house is a little hamburger drive in that has been serving hamburgers since 1954 by the same family. I walked down there yesterday and bought a bag full of burgers and some onion rings and it felt like I was back at the Dingo Drive Inn in Monahans, TX. If America has got one thing down pat, it’s hamburgers. I’ve ate them all over America and you can always find a little mom and pop place who can still make ’em like you remember ’em.
I have got a kick out of the local wild fruit here. It’s the huckleberry. You can get huckleberry scones, huckleberry muffins, huckleberry jelly. You name it and they will put hucklyberries in it or on it. I still love the line in the Wyatt Earp movie where Val Kylmer is playing Doc Holiday and he tells the bad guy, “I’ll be your huckleberry.” Some lines stick with you forever!
The moose is such a big deal here in Montana, they have their own nativity sceens!
So if everything goes according to plan, we will be pulling out of Montana in the morning headed for Cody, Wyoming and the firearms museum. They say it is worth the drive. With any luck we will probably make Colorado before we take the saddle off of the old Ford. Listen to me, I’m even talking like I’m from Montana! So for all of you virtual hitch hikers, we’ve stocked the coolers with my new favorite, Moose Drool. It’s a little more expensive but man, when have you got to say you been drinking moose drool!? You can go to the Stock Yards in Fort Worth and try their Buffalo Butt Beer, but I think Moose Drool tops Buffalo Butt!
Oh yeah, we want to give a shout out to Jay and Vicki. We’ll be thinking of you as we visit Cody, wish we could see you there!
Ted Purcell 
The moose Nativity is about the cutest thing I’ve seen!! Oh my gosh!! Ive seen all kinds of Nativity sets, but never one like that!! Please tell me you bought one so you can relive a little Yellowstone at Christmas every year!! So glad you guys are having so much fun!!!
Hey Elizabeth
Do you think there is any way Charlotte could walk out of the store without that set? Yeah right!
You do know that the actual line that Doc Holiday was supposed to to say was, “I’ll be your huckle bearer”.———-the handles on coffins were called “huckles”!!! Or so the old man that is caretaker of the actual location for the movie, “Tombstone”.
My brother had made arrangements for all of us to tour the movie set—which is north of Benson, Arizona (on IH 10). It was a great tour—-and the caretaker had actually been an extra in the movie, plus lots of other movies that had been filmed there. He was quite a character with lots of tales about the actors, etc.