DEMO DAY #2

Today, Fred took off the front porch.  We had taken the roof and most of the rafters off yesterday.

Yesterday I took off a piece of siding from where the old bathroom was and this date was written on the outside.

Since we had a dump trailer rented, we decided to haul a bunch of stuff to the dump including the big Satelite dish.  We had a man pull up beside us and tell us he thought we had a downed UFO we were hauling.

And of course, I have to include pictures of the dogs every now and then.

Shadow

Pepper

DEMO DAY (June 24th)

Yesterday Fred took the day off and we started the demo on the house.  The first part to come off was the back porch/bathroom.  We (Fred, Brandon and I) all had a chance to tear some of it down.

This is the bathroom that no longer exists. Yeah!

The backporch

Here is Brandon helping Fred remove screws from the roof so we could take it off.

The start of the demo.  Brandon got first swing. He knocked down the whole porch.

The Aftermath

Cabin Creek Trip

This past weekend Fred, Brandon and I along with some friends - Dave and Tammy went camping in West Yellowstone at Cabin Creek Cabin.  The first night we camped at the trailhead.  We had sun, rain and sleet.  It must have gotten down to about 30 degrees because there was ice on the truck the next morning.

On Saturday we four-wheeled up to the top of the mountain then hiked in to the Cabin Creek Cabin.

Saturday evening Fred and Brandon cut down a tree using a cross-cut saw.  After the tree fell, all of us had a contest to see who could cut thru the tree the fastest.  Fred and I won with 16 seconds.

Sunday morning Fred and I headed out first to the top of the mountain to four-wheel back down to the truck.  David, Tammy and Brandon started out about an hour later just to have to turn back and go to the cabin because there was a grizzly bear on the trail.  It was probably there when Fred and I were hiking but we weren't lucky enough to see it.  It hung around about 10-15 minutes then made its way up the trail and into the willows.

July 17th Demolition has begun/New bathrooms

We started demolishing the front porch.  We will clean off the logs and paint them brown and get rid of the lime green.  Yeah!

The other pictures are of our new bathrooms.  We haven't gotten the new vanities in but will put pictures on when they are in.

Glacier Park

This past weekend we went to Glacier National Park. We had a good time. We camped the first two nights and stayed in a motel the last. We went in through Lake McDonald and camped the first night there. On Friday we took the Going to the Sun road and camped at Two Medicine. The third day we went to Swiftcurrent Lake and stayed at the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn.

Here are some pictures from our trip.

Here is the Many Glacier Lodge. It was built in 1915 and modeled after swiss chalets.

We hiked up to Redrock Falls.

Here we are standing next to the snow that was plowed off the sidewalk at the top of Logan Pass at the visitor's center.

We are sitting in front of St. Mary's Fall which we hiked to on Friday.

These warning signs were posted at the entrance of the park. Of course we heeded the warning until Brandon decided to try and feed...

A CHIPMUNK!


Here Brandon and Fred are getting smoked out.

On our way back from the Redrock Falls we saw a moose in the lake eating grass off the bottom. He decided he was full and walked off into the willows.

We decided to go back later in the evening to see if we could see the moose again but instead got to see a black bear.

I had to prove to everyone that I could climb a tree!