March 29 (Wednesday)
Overcast, calm, 30° at 7 a.m. McMuffin breakfast. Off to Bozo. Visited with Jen & Monte
w/lunch. Stopped & visited with Brock on way out of Bozo. Got to cabin in the rain.
Quiet evening. (Roof didn't leak!) Good work

March 30 (Thursday)
Overcast, calm, 30° at 7 a.m. Will be packing up & heading home this morning.

Joann Neidhardt passed away May 30, 2017

June 5 (Monday)
Terry Don & Mac in this p.m. Sunny, calm, 68° in the shade. Will be spraying weeds the
next three days. Nice to have a screen door.

June 6 &7 (Tuesday & Wednesday)
Perfect days for spraying. Clear, slight breeze, no rain did 6 tanks @ 15 gal each.
Back to WF on Thurs

June 22 (Thursday)
Pat & Gary in from Billings @ 11:30 AM cool & sunny. Had a hard timeunlocks the
kitchen door. Porta-Potty guys here around noon. DY & Dorrie here in a compact RV
2:00 PM. Don & Terry here @ 3 PM. Tami & boyfriend Garth Fleetwood here @ 7 PM
Zach & Calista & Calista's friend Emma. Sunny & calm 64° 8 PM.

June 23 (Friday)
Clear & calm 36° @ 6 AM Cooled down rapidly after sunset. Looks like today will be
beautiful! 68° @ 12:30, scattered clouds, mild breeze. People arriving all morning, now
25 of us here. 65 total here this afternoon. Perfect weather - about 70° & clear all day.

June 24 (Saturday)
47° clear & calm at 8:00 AM. Total of 85 people here today. The Washington branch of the
family brought Diane Gillingham's ashes to scatter among the rocks at the Memorial Wall.
The flag was flown at half mast today in honor of Diane and Joann Neidhardt. Scattered
clouds, calm, & 76° at 5:00 PM. 62° @ 9:00 PM clear & calm. Lots of game playing with
lots of food today.

June 25 (Sunday)
47°, calm, clear @ 6:30 AM. 74° @ 3:30 PM. Clear with a mild breeze. Nearly everyone
is gone. Kevin, Michele, & Phillip St George, and Karen still here as well as Terry Haines,
Gary & Pat Baker, and Tami & Calista Hanson, and her friend Emma. Kristi Knerr, Diane
Hanzel, & Brad Hanzel's lady friend Susie Brantsma here for a couple of hours this
afternoon. We had a total of 91 family members & guests attending the reunion. 90° @ 8:00
PM, calm & clear.

June 26 (Monday)
48°, slight overcast at 6:16 AM. All the people left are departing today. DJ & Dorrie
left at 8:00 AM. Karen out @ 9:00 AM, Kevin & Michele left at 9:15 & Terry Haines at
9:30. Pat & Gary gone at 10:00 - Tami & girls are going to stay until 3 PM or so. A great
reunion - see y'all next year!

June 27 (Tuesday)
DKP All looks very clean

June 28 (Wednesday)
54° @ 6 AM 79° @ 4:30 Been cleaning trees from yard. Have more to do.

June 29 (Thursday)
50° @ 6 AM cottontail in yard cloudy/overcast. Set 2 mouse traps in outhouse. Got 1 mouse.
Both traps cleared (Peanut Butter) Going to re-set. Continued new growth from yard SE
corner. Hopefully will finish next year. Will be leaving in morning. ~ 2 PM Got another
mouse & both traps cleared will reset. And another mouse bites the dust (3rd) ~ 4:30.
8:30 PM 2 mice this time. 5 total so far.

June 30 (Friday)
45° @ 8:45 Pulling out this AM. Two new mousetraps in back bedroom. DKP

July 3 (Monday)
90° @ 13:30 Slight breeze. Returning some silverware from the reunion. All okay looking.

August 4 (Friday)
Daneil Summers Belcher came to hide away from kids & dogs - porch temp 68° breezy, smoke
in the distance - nothing seems disturbed - it did look like fresh big-vehicle tracks turned
right just in from the gate, and that path looks well traveled by the knocked down grasses.

August 5 (Saturday)
50° @ 8 breezy, partly cloudy - Picked a few gallons of chokecherries - plan to make syrup
for next years reunion - Sorry I didn't plan to be here & brought no tools or I would
have done some trimming - couldn't find any mouse traps to clean/bait - had no hornets
or other critter signs except mouse poo in the outhouse which I swept - gave the creepers
a few gallons of water throughout my visit - 66° @ 5pm.

August 6 (Sunday)
Clear & sunny 64° @ 10:30 heading out to GATES OF THE MOUNTAINS tour

August 10 (Thursday)
72° calm & smokey Kevin & Michele in for a few days. 64° @ 1030, light showers thru out the evening. August 11 (Friday) 58° @ 7AM lazy smokey day. Feed the yellow jacket traps. 89° @ 430. Daneil in @ 530.
54° 1030.

August 12 (Saturday)
48° @ 630 Karen up @ 10:30 Michele Daneil & Kevin cut baby trees from the hill. Made
five trips to the mine dump. 83° @ 430 BBQ pork, corn, red taters for supper. Lights
out @ 10PM.

August 13 (Sunday)
56° @ 7AM clear sky half of a moon hanging above the flag. Happy Birthday Nalyssa Jerome!
Biscuits & gravy then a little more work. Phil in @ noon. 78° overcast locked up & out
@ 3PM.

September 4 (Monday)
Karen in at 1030 AM. Sun shining & a breeze/hazy from wildfires! 47°. Paul & Carla Reneau
in from Missoula 10:45 57°. Nice to see sky - Msu totally socked in w/smoke today. Helen
Smith & Greg Munger in ~ 11:30 Nice day. Walk up to East Gate, lunch @ visit. H & G
left ~ 2:30PM, rest of us out about 3:30PM 65° So nice to see sun & have a little breeze.
Emptied water on creeper & iris.

September 17 (Sunday)
Nice sunshine day. Terry Mac @ I got down here Fri 15th in middle of big snow storm. Got
our annual MLR meeting taken care of. Sat 16th not snowing but about 8" to 10" on the
ground. Lilacs took a beating with a snow overload. Most branchs bent to ground & two
broken. Came out 17th to help the lilacs - all their snow was melted. Will be going back
to WF manana (18th)

October 15 (Sunday)
56° light breeze Kevin, Michele, & Karen in @ 1230 Nikki, Daneil, Kassi, & her friend
Sophia @ 130. Everyone out at 4pm 58° Beautiful day

November 25 (Tuesday)
Terrry Mac & DHP out to look things over. Nice day, sunshine & no wind. Some snow plus
animal tracks. 34° Will go to Boze tomorrow for Thanksgiving on Thursday. Cabin o.k.
Somebody cut flagpole rope & somebody took fence apart by flagpole. Somebody bad.