Top August Posts

September is moving and shaking on Along the Gradyent, but let's take a moment to go back to August, to look at its top ranked posts.

1. Topping the list was a guaranteed to be popular guest post by Teresa. She delved into the prickly subject of cacti. In Mildly Painful, Painful and Very Painful -- Texas Cactus Teresa ran down the range of cactus hazards for mature adults, young children and everyone in between. The family that blogs together stays together. And while you are at it, wear shoes and watch where you sit.
2. Talking about shaking things up, number two in page views was Earthquake! Or How Quake Lake Was Formed. We ventured on a day trip over to Virginia and Nevada Cities, and traveled down towards Yellowstone, stopping at Quake Lake. It's a geological marvel, formed on August 17, 1959 when a 7.5 earthquake cleaved the the side off a mountain, dammed Madison River Canyon and formed Earthquake Lake, 6 miles long and 190 feet deep, before creating a spillway that got the Madison River flowing once again.
3. Barack Obama believes 40 miles of fiber optic cable paid for by his stimulus package produces hundreds of jobs, while 1,500 mile of pipeline constructed, operated and paid for by sustainable economic enterprises in the private sector creates a few dozen billets. Go figure or go read Our Job Denier in Chief and this and that and the next thing to learn about Dear President's learning opportunities on the jobs and economic activity front.
4. In a gratifying first, a Saturday Pictures post made it to the a monthly top postings list.  We spent a weekend in Livingston where we shot some scenes and captured a childhood love affair with Wilcoxson's Ice Cream.
5. In Sequester as in Scare-Quester -- Montana Style we wrote on how the mainstream media went hook, line and sinker for the hoax that we would be engulfed by fiery infernos due to the sequester.  This was, of course, just a few weeks previous to the Rocky Mountain front experiencing rains of "biblical" proportions, which according to Harry Reid is due to climate change that the government is powerless to control in light of the sequester's funding constraints.  How many tens of trillions of dollars do you need to pay off greedy Democratic dweebs?

Use this opportunity to take a quick look back, but most of all I encourage keeping up this month.  Summer's passing means more blogging.  Thanks to all who read and support.