2019 according to The Amazing Sleeping Man

Wow, what a year!  I can not believe we were able to cram two-months of activities into twelve months.  Yep, pretty slow year here, not sure where it went but I know it was not adrenaline-filled. Snowboarding/skiing got off to a slow start, then some big storms rolled in and it was powder nirvana.  We…

Operation Warrior Sanctuary

Earlier this year, a wonderful thing happened. A generous soul, who wishes to remain anonymous, donated a Montana land lease with a campground and many buildings called Camp Ponderosa, to the Northwest Montana Veteran’s Food Pantry and Standdown organization. It’s located in the beautiful Swan Valley, between Seeley Lake and Condon, and near Flathead Lake…

Guest Post

One of the other wonderful authors in The Expanding Universe 5 anthology, Lawrence Schoen, has an amazing blog called Eating Authors. He asks each author a deceptively easy question: “What’s your most memorable meal?” Check out my answer here. (Notice the new pic with Zoe!) Then go read the rest–he’s interviewed a lot of fabulous and…

Chainsaw Operations with Team Rubicon Disaster Response

For the last week, I’ve been deployed to New Bern, North Carolina with Team Rubicon to help Hurricane Florence survivors clean up. Florence isn’t in the news anymore, but there’s still plenty of work to be done. I had the great fortune to work with an outstanding, fun group of sawyers to remove hazard trees….