The past few weeks have been mild here in the mountains and I’ve been honored to work on a stairway project high on the continental divide.  These are The Highlands south of Butte and it has been inspiring to make the drive to the property and enjoy views like this.   Today I watched the storms roll across the mountain and forgot my little problems in the valley.

On the hottest day of last summer my friend Jeff stopped by and told me a garage was being demolished near his home.  The site supervisor told him to salvage anything he wanted so immediately he came and got me.  We sweated and got sun-burned pulling what we wanted to keep.  I made a flag from a section of the garage wall .. it is about 37″ tall and 72″ wide.  Under the collapsed walls we found a great stash of clear pine planks.  A long time ago a fellow woodworker stored them but never got around to using them .. thanks ol’ friend!