And just when you thought it could not look any better.............you and your bride are cedar staining fools, you should be a master at it before long.......................
Black bear yes. Griz- not officially but there was a local report of a sow and cubs. Wolves- yes, up high. Mountain lions- yes I bumped a big one last archery season in a creek.
Cedar soffit is going in, looks great.
Mason will be here tomorrow, starting on fireplace cutting raised hearth and wrap-around mantle. I’m a believer in mock ups and / or prototypes to see what you’ll build. I wonder how close to this keystone/ arch design we’ll finish u?
Kitchen cabinets out of box- all the uppers are the wrong height.
Good news- early in the am there’s a pronghorn buck rubbing his horns on my aluminum tripod water sprinklers where I reseeding the native grass where the power company made a mess digging power in from the road.
There were 4 griz maulings in the Gravelies Range last archery season. 3 injuries and one got to the small medical center here and them life-flight to St James in Butte. Yeah, a fact of life.
The Snowcrest Mountains from our house in the distance are the northern part of the Gravelies.
We did a search and rescue training mission to the hot area near Black Butte earlier in July. Area familiarization, roads in/out, looking for high points with cell coverage (so called ‘phone boxes’) to position somebody for a communication relay from radio to the outside world.
My Honda P5 with a cooler for ice and water.
We have bear awareness training including firing inert bear spray at a rolling- in bear decoy. Carry UDAP with us. I supplement with 45 w/ Buffalo Bore 265 grain +P hardcast and my Mossberg 500 slug gun with 5 slugs in tube snd 5 more on butt stock.
I know Montana is #4 in size behind Texas, but our rattlers hold their own in size. This guy was coiled in the dirt road near our gate. I “Dodge RAM’d” him. I’ve got it stretched and covered in Borax.
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