Our Weekend

Well, for some (namely John) their weekend started a little sooner than expected. He ran out of hours, so he did not have to go to work at all on Friday! (Actually he did work in the morning, but that was the end of his Thursday.) When, I got off on Saturday morning, there was a garage sale that I wanted to go to near Stevensville (Stevi), so since we were meeting with our new potential landlord in Stevi, we decided to go to it. There were also a few others that were not advertised in the paper….but we did not buy anything at any of them. To kill some time before our meeting, we just rode around a little bit to see the town of Stevensville. The house we will be renting is not actually in town….more like about 2-3 miles outside of it. Our meeting went well and we absolutely loved the property and the house. It sits on 10 acres where Elk and deer travel through on a regular basis. We walked the property with Sue (landlord) and saw the skeletal remains of an elk! The house has 3 bedroom and 2 baths. A laundry room and a rec room! It is heated with electric baseboard heat but has a wood burning stove in the living room. I don’t think that Daisy’s howling is going to be a problem either, since we don’t have very many close neighbors and the only one that is close has a rooster that crows on quite a regular basis. We have another meeting with Sue next Saturday before she leaves MT and we should have a better idea of when the current tenants will be out.

We got back to our apartment at around 1:15 and there was a message on our machine asking me to come into work and fill in for someone who was “sick”. So I slept for about a half an hour and had to be back to work at 3:00! Today we slept in and then got up and went for a walk down by the river….we had a beautiful day here in MT….it was 50 degrees! (However it was 40 when we where in the mountains.) Lots of other people had the same idea we did…there were tons of people out with their dogs and lots of men fly fishing. After that we decided to take a drive and we ended up heading up towards the Skalkaho Falls (we saw those on our trip over the summer). On our way up to the pass we saw a small herd of bighorn rams (this time I finally got to see the male version with the BIG curly horns) but we did not get to go all the way to the falls, the road is closed in the winter. And that pretty much sums up our exciting weekend!!