Since my last entry, I have been too busy to keep you updated. The wood floors have been properly sitting inside adjusting to the inside space. My buddy, Travis, who, lucky for me lives down the road and is a skilled carpenter, is helping me set the floors. Wood is beautiful. It is just as beautiful inside as it is outside. I really appreciate each grain from the individual boards and the worm holes give it the cabin feeling I love. Travis is just grateful that he isn't working with polystyrene, which is what we built the house with. I gotta agree. I like working with wood. My wife would say it is the element that connects me.
The challenging part was setting the floor around the hearth. I made the hearth out of the same Chief Mountain stone as the lodge. I also decided to do something "artsy" and make a Chief Mountain scene. For those of you who have been to Glacier County, Chief Mountain The mountain is one of the most prominent peaks [...]
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The trim in in! Looks like a window sized postcard of Glacier Park. The wood floors are getting acclimated and the cabin is starting to get some personality. This is my day job and I love it. I can't wait to show it off to people and let them discover for themselves the spirit that is Glacier Country.
Better get ready to sing tonight. I'll sign off now.
David
This is the photo I finally took regarding my bear commute from my blog the other day.
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You see the commute should be the extension of your job. In my case, as I have said before, the commute into The Many Glacier Hotel, is one of the best parts of my job. (Of course, the best part is singing to you fine folks every night.)
Last night's commute from my trailer to the hotel was nothing unusal except extraordinary. The random bull moose off the roadside eating his dinner. So once again, I stop in the middle of road, turn off the truck and watch. I am helpless when it comes to wildlife. It amazes me when a car drives right by, blissfully unaware that they just passed one of nature's amazing creatures, just feet from their front door.
I had this experience a few years back that blew my mind. My family & I had just finished up my last show of the summer season and we were driving behind some friends heading out of Many Glacier. It was about midnight the night was pitch black, and the stars glittered like diamonds. [...]
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As I was commuting into work last night which, by the way, is the best part of my job. I stopped along the main road to watch a bear down by Lake Sherburne. Now let me add something here about Montana traffic. Gridlock here in Montana is a bit different, than say Atlanta. There is not a whole lot of road rage here but it is the wildlife that makes people slow down and stop in the middle of the road, despite the line of cars behind you.
So I parked my truck on the road and just watched this bear for a spell. Soon he started making his way back to the road, towards my truck. Sure enough, he walked right next to me, stopped, raised up on his hind legs, sniffed the Tundra, looked me in the eye and grunted as if to say - Hi Dave, good to see you again - and then swaggered back into the woods.
Of course my camera sat next to me unopened in its case. I started my truck and continued my commute to work, which like I said, is the best part of my job.
