One Week at Home and Back in Montana
“Ha, I knew it! You ended up not going fishing or shooting, while back home. You wrote in your last article that you’ll probably just bum around. You wrote that as an out so when you didn’t go fishing...
View ArticleGot Through a Rough Week
Here I am at the laundromat waiting for my clothes. And as weird as it sounds, I rather enjoy it. I guess it’s because it just affords me time to slow down, relax and think. Then again, so does smoking...
View ArticleTook a Trip to Big Hole River
“I don’t even know why I bother setting the alarm. I always wake up just before it goes off.” It felt like 4am came around far too quickly. I must have really been tired and slept rather soundly....
View ArticleWaiting for Sunrise, to Fish Big Hole
“Damn, bro, I’ve never seen you on your phone as much as I have this week,” one of my guys said to me. “Trust me, I wish I could turn it off,” I replied. That pretty much sums up my week in Butte....
View ArticleSubtle Signs Autumn is near.
“Wow! It’s brisk this morning.” Summer is certainly waning. For the first time since I’ve been here, I felt the extra coolness of the morning, as I lie in bed. And after getting up, getting ready and...
View ArticleColder Temps are a coming
“Dude, what’s going on? Your post count is lagging. Yeah, hard to get motivated when work is smoking me and fishing is thirty miles away, at least.” Well, here we are; It’s September. Starbucks has...
View ArticleFall is here
Yeah, I know it’s been a while — three weeks. Work has had me so involved, I really couldn’t wrap my head around writing. Even now I struggle to lay my thoughts down. I suppose I should start with...
View ArticleI am not a Bushcrafter.
Sometimes being an outdoorsman is conflated with being a bushcrafter. It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. So, am I a bushcrafter? Honestly, that’s a very perplexing question. And after much...
View ArticleThe Wind Down Begins. I’m leaving Butte
Yep, I’m getting into this weird habit of writing once every three weeks. Hmmm! Seems like it has a lot to do with this place. I absolutely do not like Butte, Montana. It is, for me anyway, depressing....
View ArticleMy Fall Colors Drive
In my last post, demeanor notwithstanding, I mentioned I had gone out to Big Hole river to enjoy the fall colors. “Wait, are you seriously going to use the word notwithstanding? I suppose it makes you...
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