For the past eight years a decent portion of my professional life has been spent working on a large, inter-agency study of the Yellowstone River.  Over this time we have mapped changes to the river and adjacent land areas in support of a court-mandated, cumulative effects study of human impacts to the river.  This study is in response to the […]

Over the Memorial Day weekend we braved the weather and ventured out of town.  We should know better than to have any guests or to plan any sort of outdoor activity over Memorial Day.  It has notoriously bad weather in our neck of the woods.  Our initial plan was to drive over the Beartooth Highway on opening weekend.  20 inches+ […]

The last major step, wiring the guitar.  It has been a long time since I soldered any wires.  And even then, it was just one or two wires every few years to fix a vacuum cleaner or toaster.  So I was a little nervous about messing this up somehow.  The Net is rife with stories about folks who have taken […]

Though I have been finished with this project for a month or so, I still seem to have some catching up to do with the last couple of steps of the build. I am a bit of a junkie when it comes to finish work.  Not over the top obsessed, but I do like taking the time to get a nice […]

Every now and then an old friend come back into your life.  These days, it is usually a friend request on FaceBook that results in a couple of messages getting passed back and forth with content like “remember when” or “do you know what happened to….” or “I miss our…”  Only to fade away when you realize that you really […]