In Eleven Days

SHE'S THERE

The AP Found Her

girl on the 1/2 pipe

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The neighbor kids reminded us.

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Small Update

NEW OWNERS

New Signs

less feather merchants

FEATHER MERCHANTS OF WEST YELLOWSTONE

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NEW SIGN IN TOWN

.. The recent amalgamation of feather merchants in our little village requires a new map.
.. We figure that a town with twice as many pubs as fly shops and, more fly shops than churches deserves it's very own map.
.. Click on the map to see original and then save it to wherever you like.

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.. The snow is coming back this afternoon.  It's going to be warm enough to bring us another dump of the wet stuff rather than the dry stuff.
.. Breakfast was early and there's time for a quick dash to NOTELLUM CREEK ESTUARY. The midges are swarming in the morning sun. Off we go.

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SELL IT !!

LAND FOR FREEWAYS

Our G'munt At Play

rural vs. urban  ??

MONTANA'S  GIFT  TO  AMERICA

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.. The leaked presidential infrastructure plan is available on line. We're hoping it really is  just a draft with talking points only.
.. View the Fact Sheet PDF Here - 1.  View the Funding Principles Here - 2.
.. Below we've highlighted an interesting obnoxious shitty way to fund the bridges, water supplies, roads, airports, electrical distribution, and other bits of our crumbling infrastructure.

AMERICA'S GIFT TO THE WORLD

.. We're quite sure that there will be much pork to be consumed across the nation in celebration of the proposal.
.. We anticipate that the proposed federal contributions to the projects will go up and that the proposed private contributions will go down.
.. We do need help for our dated and obsolete infrastructure: no question about it.
.. We also need the adults in the room to take a stand on the way we go about the help. We question weather a philandering con artist and dime store cowboy have the answers that America needs.

RESOURCES

>> AXIOS
>> CNBC
>> FOX BUSINESS NEWS
>> MOLDY CHUM

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.. We've had some snow in dribs and drabs and the high country is piling up nicely. The temperatures have been moderate and seasonal or, slightly on the less cold side.
.. Even the neighbors with legs that wobble less than ours have been out in the real world of catch - release - and - brag.

RIGHT SIZE SMOKER

.. Winter fishing pressure from visitors has slowed over the last decade or so and now there are two feather merchants completely closed up.
.. Catching success has been mixed. Ice fishers are stocking up on 'smokers,' (Mountain Whitefish,) while stream fishers are still pestering spawners from the rivers.
.. Should you happen to know where Indian Creek joins the Madison River you might easily take a fish every 10 minutes.

A PINK FEATHER DUSTER

.. Both trout and mountain whitefish use the lower reaches of this ephemeral creek and hang out until Spring around it's mouth.
.. Our ice rink is slick and fast, the town roads are in excellent shape, trinket and T-shirt shops are open and, visitors are strolling the walkways. The only hazard in town is the skiers who insist on walking six abreast in the road - such is life.

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.. It's early and we're having a midlife morning so perhaps we'll shovel in the dark, warm our buns by the stove, contemplate the universe and have an early breakfast. Or, try to get a couple of hours of shuteye.

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Nine More Days

WINTER DIVERSION

First Annual

we'll see the stuff

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Who knows what's up?

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Don't Try This At Home

GO CHLOE GO

Neighbor Kids Stoked

very young superstar

CHLOE:  AN AMERICAN OLYMPIAN

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.. The neighbor kids waylaid us at the Post Office door. "You need to post about Chloe," they said.
.. "Who?" "Huh?" we replied. An education was in the works from our snowmachine dominated youth culture. Even the skiers were stoked. Other folks gathered in the crowd-blocked doorway.
.. They educated all of us old farts in the small crowd that they had created.
.. So we ambled home and looked at the You Tube videos. "SPIFFY STUFF INDEED."
.. A perfect score at age 15!

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.. Going to the Olympics at age 17!

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We Gots Guns

T & T & P

DONALD TRUMP JUNIOR

ALEKSANDER TORSHIN

TRUMP AND TORSHIN
AND MARIA BUTINA 

WAYNE La PIERRE

WAYNE AND DON

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So there you have it.

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"ALL HAT"

AND UNDERNEATH ?

All Rod & Reel

bull riders don't brag

World Champion Charles Sampson At Bonnet Palace Dallas

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.. The poseur is a great mimic. BIG hat or FANCY rod. Snake skin boots or $500 reel. We have a few of each in this little village. We also have the real McCoy.
.. The night clerk at a local convenience store took home the bronc rider buckle at last year's rodeo.

OUR BANK PRESIDENT

.. A couple of trinket store clerks have creased jeans, new boots and dime store chrome belt buckles. They wear big hats and tell the visitors wonderful stories.
.. Our local bronc rider will pump your propane with a smile and show you where the potato chips are. Next customer.
.. The stories floating in the aisles of feather merchants are entertaining: full of hubris and hyperbole. They sell things.
.. Our neighbor at the bank continually takes giant trout on a fly. She doesn't say much about it. But we know and, it surfaces in normal daily conversations.

NEIGHBOR HAS BEEN FISHING !!

.. There are a couple of working ranches in the neighborhood and there's no question about who works them.
.. There are old trucks that have a gun rack, (with rifle and rod,) and, fly gear on the front seat. They go fishing constantly.
.. It's hard for us to get our head around the reasons for the pretense. We see it and wonder. Is there any authenticity about the image? Who knows these deep things?

NICE HAT

.. Self aggrandizement is rampant in our society and we, (in general,) are happy to believe it rather than call it out. Such a state of affairs!
.. Winter time is a good time to cogitate about these mysteries.

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.. Warm today and snow tomorrow. The neighbors went out early. They're back now and at the job. Tonight about dark thirty the fish will be hungry. We'll dance with them if they are willing.

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