I pulled up at the Minot office Tuesday morning and noticed the driver in another car parking nearby. “Hey, that guy looks kinda like Pat . . . wait a sec . . . that is Pat.” Apparently the prohibition on both of us being in the same city at the same time has been lifted. Either that or he’s been inoculated against liberal cooties so I’m no longer a danger to him. Of course he had to make a smart-ass remark – “You do have some real clothes. I thought you’d be wearing bunny slippers or something.”

So . . . top five standard wardrobe items in our Montana office:

5. Gun for protection against squirrels.

4. Bigger gun for protection against bears.

3. Ginormous gun for anyone trying to take my other guns away.

2. Squirrel slippers. Bunny slippers are so tacky.

1. Squirrel slippers jammed into hob-nailed work boots in case I need to kick the ass of the nearest prison escapee, elk poacher or crazed gun-toting anti-government loner.