Personal Narrative: Summer In Montana

Montana, the state where winter seems to never go away and spring seems to be only a few weeks and suddenly it is summer and seems even when naked your body is boiling and no matter the amount of ice filled cold water you can’t stay cool enough. Don’t get me wrong I love winters and wouldn’t trade Montana winters for anything in the world but at the same I also am an individual whose moods are highly dependent on the weather and so when the cloudy skies and freezing cold temperatures finally leave I feel like I have been reborn just like a phoenix rising from the ashes. I know spring has finally arrived and my mood will be a great one when I wake up and not only feel the sun’s ray warm my face, which even with the shades down have found a way to creep into the room, and hear the heavenly notes “chick a dee chick a dee” the cute small songbird has left his tree cavity and gladly is outside chirping away letting all and any alike that no longer do they have to savage and enjoy the freshly ripe nuts, fruits, and insects all around them. …show more content…
Just like humans, songbirds will eat just about anything during the winter to retain their body heat, even at times eating the fat of small birds who have been killed by others. Humans are no different and winter is the period in which instinct calls us to eat anything and everything to create a thicker layer of fat, no wonder the terms winter bod and summer bod exist in our society. The summer bod of the black-capped chickadee is created through the healthy diet of small insects, nuts, and an assortment of greens. It is hard to get a summer bod in Montana because Montanan’s like to float the rivers in the summer to cool down and that is when the beers come out and the bar-b-que food hits the grill. Montana’s sure do enjoy their beer and burgers. I hear another chick a dee chick a