Cooking in the West

My friend, Mike Long of Bozeman, Montana, is one of those people who is just naturally funny. If I have had a bad day, all I have to do to cheer myself up is check out Mike's Facebook page. On one such bad day recently, I scrolled across Mike's philosophies for life. With full disclosure, I had to edit out some of the responses for a family newspaper, but this is his abridged list that left me laughing and nodding in agreement:

1. If you have a crawl space, don't go down there. Nothing good can come of it.

2. A good first cure for any ailment from a hangnail to a brain tumor is a hot bath and...