Door stuff

These are the panel configurations for paint-grade doors. We can order them in whichever profile we want, not necessarily the one shown here.

As I recall, this is the profile you were interested in. There are other options for the shaker style but they're kinda frilly ie: not shaker.

Shutting Down

The game room so far, probly gonna get some darts going on too.

Ghetto kitchen
After having 14 people for Thanksgiving we had to take everything back out of the house for the drywall tape and texture which is currently under way. This could be the last post until spring as I am headed to Big Sky Ski Resort for the winter and the foreman is headed back to NH until May. Happy Holidays everyone!

This guy hung around for a week and a half. Here he was checking out Lafawnduh about 5 ft from the glass.
House with snow and rail
The Thanksgiving crew.
The Thanksgiving Whitetail Massacree

Juiced

We finally got the power company to hook us up. Dealing with them was a glaring example of why monopolies suck...bad. First, it took three weeks to get someone to come up and measure the distance from the end of the line to our place. After that, it took two weeks to get an estimate of $13 per foot for about 700 ft. Then they required payment up front of the entire sum before they would even put us on the schedule. It took two months for them to get to us and they bumped us on the schedule four times. Pop and I called them no less than fifty times throughout the whole ordeal. 

If I may interject a little politics, this is a classic example of what deregulation has achieved. This market is so small that the supposed "free market" is a farce. The rules set by the state that used to govern the power company have gone out the window and now and rates have gone up 375% since 1999 when deregulation went through. May I point to the deregulation of the banking system and it's subsequent greed fueled collapse as further evidence. Rant over. 

This here's a mountain chicken. Yummy. Only bit into one BB.
This is the view from my elk spot. Soon to come....elk pics, hopefully. 

Workin' it out.

This is a section of the log railing I'm building for the deck. 
Here's the place all sided. I've not yet addressed the roof. The color is Blackberry, kind of a purple/burgundy color. It is the first roof of this color ever sold in Western Montana. The pride for this pick...of course, goes to Pamelita (who also recently turned 47, congrats Ma)
Gable end

Sorry for the lack of pics folks, just got my camera back. The house is further along now, I'll have some updated ones on Monday.

We used local douglas fir to side the house. It's a rough sawn lap siding with a 6" exposure finished with a product called Lifetime. The product looks green now but in a few months it will turn a cedar gray on the north facing and brown on the sunnier exposures, like barn wood. 
This was the first significant snow. Last week of September. It all melted and it has snowed and melted about a dozen times since. Right now there's about 8 inches on the ground, but it's supposed to warm up again this week, which is nice for me. 
They sent us the wrong windows. The three to the right and the two on the gable end are a foot narrower than they were supposed to be, so we told 'em we'd use them but wouldn't be paying for them. They said, "ok".

Kind of a jumble of shots

Da Crew. Left to right: Zach, Carey, Roberto 

Roberto pontificating.

The view improves steadily

First day framing



Lickidy split

A couple days after this Pop was up there by himself and the bears got into camp and tore it up pretty good. He cleaned up and straightened, went back down the house (150 yard down the hill) and they came back in and repeated the process, tearing open all his rubbermaid bins, eating a 10lb bag of peanuts and generally trashing the place. I'm bringing my gun this week, stay posted for the pictures.