Soon to be no more Bill in San Jose....

[Rwc]

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.......................


Rwc

[Thumper]

Awesome build, congrats!

Built right in the middle of bear country, those were some good looking WT deer too.

[Texbow]

Enjoy the new climate.

[Bill]

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?




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[Roscoe]

Soon to be no more Bill in San Jose....

All that wood work is beautiful!


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[Bill]

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.




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[Bill]

Post-sunset glow in the west tonight.




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[Bill]

Truss stained over entry. Building double door from 3” thick reclaimed (old wood) white oak.



Kitchen cabinets and island going in.



One more dump run for me this afternoon.




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[Bill]

Are we having fun, yet?



My neighbor was haying and reported a herd of 80-90 elk on a knob 3 miles away. Public land. Several nice bulls.

Keep staining!


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[Pstraw]

Those shingles will still be there when you get back. Go check on the livestock.
Everything's looking great, Bill.

[Texas Grown]

Heard on this clip it was near Bozman in 2019? Be careful out there Bill. Don't want any Bear having a Bill burrito.



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[Bill]

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.

Beyond that- it’s in Jesus’ hands.



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[Puncher51]

Haha, I love that last paragraph!! You’re living the dream Bill!!

[Bill]

The cedar shakes got stained.



And are going up on the house. They look nice.




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[Bill]

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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