A Blog and Web Site About The McDougall Family
As some of you may know, Alia had congenital cataracts shortly after she was born. The condition was anticipated, and doctors were ready to perform surgery. They removed the lenses from her eyes, thus resulting in her having to wear very thick glasses with very limited vision. It is planned, some day, when her eyes […]
Read MoreI had to go out to Eastern Montana this week for my job. I stayed over night in Glendive. When I was getting ready to leave the motel, I was greated with the most beautiful sunrise. Click the picture to see this one and others that I’ve taken while traveling around Beautiful Montana.
Read MoreAs I travel around the state, I bring along an MP3 player (a music player that plays computer audio files). I down load audio programs from the Internet on subjects that I am interested in, mostly Ham Radio, Computer, or Christian programs. Several programs that I listen to are hosted by Leo Leporte. He does […]
Read MoreWe had our church picnic yesterday evening. What a great time we had. The picnic was at the Kleffner Ranch betweeen East Helena and Montana City. It was well attended with probably 200 or so people. Denis Young and his wife Stacy own the ranch, and host many events there all year around. Denis gave […]
Read MoreTomorrow, we have another meeting for our preparations of our missions trip to Moldova in October. We have only 40 days left, and any loose ends are being tied up. One thing that is requested of us, is that we be prepared to give our testimonies on how we received Jesus as our Savior. We […]
Read MoreWe enjoyed the day at the Jefferson County Fair in Boulder. Jefferson County is does not have a huge population and the county seat is Boulder. Boulder is right over the mountain from Jefferson City. Even though this is a small County Fair, we really enjoy it, for the very fact that it is small. […]
Read MoreA couple of nights ago, I was hard boiling some eggs for my lunch at work. While cooking, one of them broke; and the results was a miniature Santa Clause head sticking out the side of the egg. I remembered a while back when someone sold a corn flake, that looked like the state of […]
Read MoreClick HERE for a larger view of the slide show of the DownPour Fesitval. Our family to a road trip yesterday (Saturday) to Great Falls to attend the annul “DownPour Festival” held there every year. From their website, “DownPour Festival is a home-grown free-admission music festival held in Great Falls, Montana. This was our first […]
Read MoreWe have a young child that tends to wake up several times in the middle of the night and wanders around. He is Mr. Houdini and can escape any child proof system. We have found him outside in the middle of the night while it was raining, and he was happily playing with his trucks. […]
Read MoreYesterday, I received my blood type report in the mail; and that is one more thing to mark off of our list of preparations for our trip to Moldova in October. We went shopping the other day and picked up a lot of miscellaneous items. We got two carry on bags, tooth paste, tooth brushes, […]
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