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Epic Barn Project Ranch Summer

The Epic Barn Project Begins

We love our Montana neighbors. I (Ashton) have always longed for great neighbors, as growing up in a good part of the city led us to having lots of friends within a few blocks. Most recently, after I graduated in LA, and the first few years in Montana, the neighborly friends decreased in numbers at an alarming rate as friends went off to college and other adventures in LA and not knowing any people in Montana who had anything better to do than “hang out at the bar”…

When we moved out to our ranch where we really could only see four neighbors from our property, we were very fortunate that they were great neighbors.

With that said, one of our coolest neighbors, Buzz, has a 38’x32′ horse barn that came with their house that they don’t really use. Anna and her mother now have more than 10 horses so to make a long story short, we are going to be buying his barn and moving it to our property! Since I already have a post about helping out on Buzz’s Latest Barn, I’m going to call this the “Epic Barn Project.”

Epic Barn Project Begins!

Here are some pictures of the Epic Barn as it looked this morning. You can consider these “Before” pictures.

Epic Barn Project Before

Epic Barn Project Before

Epic Barn Project: Remove Roof

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Grub Club Montana Summer

Grub Club Ventures Outside

(FYI, Grub Club is our Thursday gathering of friends. If you’re ever in MT, swing by.)

We finally had fairly decent weather for our grub club, so we decided to build a campfire. For the first grub club campfire of last year we burned a dog house, so we had to come up with something fun and cool that we could do/burn…

Ashton and Anna's Grub Club Photos

Are those Pizza Hut boxes?

Ashton and Anna's Grub Club Photos

That’s right. We made a Pizza Hut Fort! Donald came up with the structure idea: using card stacking methods to build the different layers.

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Summer Trips & Activities

Montana Rafting

On this day, the Sanders Family + Grampa Joe went Rafting with Flathead Raft Co. It was the most fun we’ve ever had on a river, and Grampa Joe cannot stop talking about it (even months after). I’ll let the pictures do the talking:

AshtonAnna Rafting
AshtonAnna Rafting
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AshtonAnna Rafting
AshtonAnna Rafting
AshtonAnna Rafting

Talk about crazy fun. Everyone was smiling and laughing afterwards. At least half of the boat was very worried/scared about flipping, but in hind-sight are very happy that we did. It was a blast.

-AshtonAnna

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Animals Montana Ranch Summer

July 4th 2008

This was a great Fourth of July. This was the first time in at least three years that I was not out at Camp Cherry Valley (CCV). We also had Mike Hedge from LA visiting us. Mike is a (very good) photographer, and he took more than 900 pictures while he was here. Here is what we did on the Fourth of July through Mike Hedge’s lenses:

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Here’s some pictures of our house:
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(I brought these green urchin shells home from CCV)
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Here are some of our Animals:
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Our House:
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Time for Breakfast:
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Time to head out…
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To the Lake:
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We took a break and visited the Stanfield’s for a boat and some more photos:
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Then Back to the lake:
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For some water skiing:
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We met up with the Grub-Clubbers at Pizza Hut…
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And went off to do some Sparklers and Fireworks!
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Happy Fourth,
AshAnna

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Summer

Summer Update

Hi All,

Well I haven’t blogged in a while but I guess I should talk about my great summer!! Ash and I bought that cute little house in Feb and I decided to start my first huge garden and used every square foot possible to plant all kinds of vegetables and flowers. I counted up 11 kinds of vegetables and 9 herbs and 40 types of flowers. I had so much fun starting many of them from seed and watching them grow. I can’t even tell you how many peas, tomatoes and zucchinis I picked. Now it is Oct and everything is dying 🙁 I wish I could keep all these healthy plants alive but that’s Montana!