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Small Business Saturday Sale!
Greetings from beautiful White Sulphur Springs, Montana! We hope this finds you well and staying warm with your loved ones this fall. Just a little inspiration from Rosie the Riveter to announce our SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY SALE! Saturday, November 29th, 2014. 10am – 5pm. 10% off all products – In store or phone ONLY! 406.547.3781. As always we appreciate your support for USA Made Workwear. Cheers and don’t eat too much this week…but if you do, you know where to get another pair of pants! Here at Red Ants Pants we are thankful for all the hard work you do. We’re raising our glasses to YOU. With gratitude, Sarah and the Team www.redantspants.wpengine.com
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And sometimes, when life gets too busy, too complicated… its time to head for the hills. Preferably in an old stick shift Chevy. With a good dog. …and a chainsaw. And then somehow things don’t seem so complicated anymore. Cheers Friends. PS. She’s a Chevy Cheyenne, 1979. It was a good year.
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It’s the kind of cold where you have to wear a down jacket and gloves to the office, and a mad bomber hat to bed. It’s the kind of cold where the pets decide, “Screw you, I will NOT go out there. I’m going to pee on the floor”. It’s the kind of cold where you dry your hair in front of the wood stove because you have frost on the bathroom outlet. It’s the kind of cold where you seriously consider burning your rocking chair for more heat. You wonder how Laura Ingalls Wilder did it. You wonder how we got so damn soft over the years. You wonder whose brilliant idea it was to work and live in an 1880 historic brick building that has no insulation and a negative R value. Then you remember…right, that was me. You remind yourself that the ice patterns on the cracked single pane glass windows really are beautiful. And that living in these Northern climes gives us bragging rights. Bragging about what, I’m not really sure. But when the thermometer reads FORTY DEGREES BELOW zero, we are reminded that we are not in control. It allows us to feel a little danger in our lives. And somehow, when the temps rise again, and they will… …we will feel just a little bit stronger. web design history
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MUFFINS! SCONES! WHISKEY! (just kidding on that one). Small Business Saturday is coming this Saturday. This Saturday. Two days after Thanksgiving. What is it? A day to support your favorite small business. When? Saturday, November 30th, 2013. Where? The Red Ants Pants Store, White Sulphur Springs, MT. What? 20% store-wide sale for purchases made in the store or over the phone (406-547-3781). Extras? Pumpkin-walnut-choc chip muffins. Oatmeal scones. Hot coffee. Hot cocoa. Hot tea. Our new White Sulphur Springs-made aprons are now in stock. We are very excited. oooohh! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! See you Saturday.
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Plums, Firewood and...SNOW!?!
Just when my first and only sunflower bloomed… …this happened… …seriously!?…on September 25th!? Yup. So it was time to harvest these…. Yum! They are even more delicious than they look. And now it is time for the best part of all. Firewood season is upon us. No better smell than sawdust. And the only better view than this… …is the view of a freshly bucked, split, and stacked pile of firewood. Coming soon! And surely we still have time right!? Happy Fall, Calhoun
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Small Business Saturday
WARNING: Shameless self-promotion ahead. When: Small Business Saturday, November 24th 2012. Where: Red Ants Pants Store, White Sulphur Springs, MT 10am -5pm What: 20% off all merchandise purchased in store or over the phone (406-547-3781). Support your favorite small business (that would be Red Ants Pants) on November 24th – Small Business Saturday, a day to celebrate and support the local small businesses that boost the economy and invigorate neighborhoods across the country. Red Ants Pants is proud to take part in Small Business Saturday, and we’re encouraging everyone to Shop Small here on November 24th. Plus, we’re having a special Small Business Saturday offer! Come in on November 24th 2012, 10am – 5pm and you’ll get 20% off all merchandise purchased in the store or over the phone. Complementary tea and coffee. Homemade muffins! See our new T-shirts and hoodies – here’s a small sample to whet your appetite. (They’ll be on the website soon!) And, on Saturday, November 24th, check out our Christmas gift packages. Most importantly, get out there, Shop Small, and let’s make this November the biggest day of the year for small business. To learn more, visit ShopSmall.com.
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Why did the Bear Cross the Road?
He didn’t. She climbed through the fence expecting children to follow. But do children ever do as they are told? They prefered to pose for my camera. Don’t you follow us, lady.
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Music Festival 2012 - Heck Yeah!
It is hard to believe it’s been three weeks since the music festival! Here are some interesting numbers for you all: 8800 attendees 3300 rolls of TP (and yes, I completely made that number up, but the important thing is we didn’t run out!) 1900 festival snap shirts 230 dedicated volunteers 94 kegs of beer – Yeah Big Sky Brewery! 56 world class performers 10 grants gifted from the RAP Foundation 3 lightning evacuations….hooray nobody was struck, thank you for your patience and cooperation! 2 shade structures built by the Timber Skills workshop gals 1 Heck of a good time!! 0 fights, wrecks, or medical emergencies. Heck yeah! To continue to relive the fun and madness, visit the Red Ants Pants Music Festival Facebook Page. Don’t forget to like it. You’ll find lots of discussions and wonderful photographs of the events there. Thank you all so much for coming. See you next year! PS. Our favourite quote, overheard during our meat processing demonstration: This is awesome! The only place we could see this is in Montana or Mexico!
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A Livingston Loop
by Sarah Kmon “Them’re some straight up sonsuhbitches,” was the way one Montana cowboy described the mountains that flank the gateway to the Paradise Valley. They loom ominously over Livingston. Not the previously mentioned mountains, but a random photo taken in Meagher County. This is yet another travel post. I don’t think you really appreciate all the gems that Montana has to offer. But you will. I am about to take you on a driving loop and show you a few more. Start in Livingston. We can discuss the importance this later. Just know that this loop will take more than a day if you stop at every one of the places I mention. The only rule for following this loop is that you HAVE TO stop at Red Ants Pants. Livingston the home of the artists and poets of Montana. The writers, the thinkers, the left-brainers. Also home of Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid and Batman. I think. If that’s changed, I’m going to be very disappointed. I haven’t spent much time in Livingston, and can only recommend one place to eat because is the only place my husband and I eat in Livingston. And, it is the only place in Montana that I have eaten Mexican food that comes anywhere close to tasting like the food that I miss in New Mexico. I long for New Mexico food about every other minute. Even if I’m eating chocolate chips. Also the bathroom has been clean every time. That racks up the brownie points for me. Also, the food and the plates are boiling hot. So while it may not be everyone’s taste, I get my green chili fix and my husband gets a hot meal in his tummy. The restaurant is Fiesta En Jalisco. Oh and they didn’t have exactly what I wanted on their menu, but they made it for me anyway. Can you say high maintenance? Head north from Livingston on Hwy 89. You will hit Clyde Park and then Wilsall. In Wilsall check out (but don’t drink and drive), the Bank Bar in Wilsall, and the Wilsall Bar & Cafe. The latter is run by the Rooney’s who also own Cloud Nine Farms, from which we get our summer CSA share of veggies. They are excellent veggies. Another place to check out is Val’s Deli. Drive north, on up to White Sulphur Springs. You can stay in one of the four hotels in town. Make sure you get a chance to soak in the Hotsprings. Come visit us at Red Ants Pants. Even if you don’t buy a pair, you can try them on so you know your size. From White Sulphur, head East towards Harlowton. You will drive a very similar route to the one that T.C Bruce rode on the train from WSS to Two Dot, in the most excellent book Ride the Jawbone, by local author, Jim Moore. Anyway. Before you get to Harlowton, you will pass the turn-off to Lennep/Martinsdale. Take that turn and visit/stay at/eat at the Crazy Mountain Inn. I recommend (through other people’s recommendations) that you have the Chicken Fried Steak and the Lemon Cream Pie. Also in Martinsdale is the Bair Museum. It is one of the most talked-about tourist spots for this area during the summer months. The Museum is open Memorial Day through Labor day. Memorial Day is just around the corner so you don’t have to wait too long. Okeydoke. On to Harlowton. In this pretty little town, many people are yard-proud (though some are not) and I get scared when I drive through late at night and I look at the old courthouse and imagine there are ghosts in the black windows, looking at me looking at them. But apart from imaginary ghosts there is also Snowy Mountain Coffee. We drink their coffee. We love their coffee. We buy their coffee in bulk. And we eat their treats. Yum. You should try it all. But don’t throw up. Harlowton is also the home of Cream of the West. Did you eat your porridge this morning? Was it Cream of the West? It should have been. Did you know they have an entire organic selection? Check it out. After you have looked around Harlowton, drive south to Big Timber. Soak up the gorgeousness of the Crazy Mountains during your drive. Once in Big Timber, there are a number of places you can go. Big Timber recently won a bid to become the home of the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. GO BIG TIMBER! Blake Nursery is one of our favorites. We have mentioned them before. You can also get your nails done by Darlene at Sam’s Hair Salon. Big Timber dates for you to mark in your calendars: Saturday May 12th. Bull-a-rama (do not ask me what a bull-a-rama is) at the Rodeo Grounds. 6pm. Call 406-932-5131 for info. June 8th, 9th and 10th. The Big Timber Gun Show. Channel the right-winged, conservative militia in you. (I’m being funny.) June 29th and 30th. The Sweetgrass Festival and Big Timber Rodeo. Check it out. Once you have soaked up all that Big Timber has to offer, head west, back to Livingston, along the interstate. I know that I told you we would discuss the point of why we need to start in Livingston. But I don’t want to.
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