Family Mellmann

Today was my day to drive to Billings and Absarokee.  As I drove (it's almost two hours to Billings) I experienced snow and low clouds, sun, rain, more sun, sleet, more rain, more sun, more snow, and then sun.  Talk about micro-climates!  In Livingston it was cloudy, chilly, and snowy but by the time I got to Absarokee the sun was shining and it was 50 degrees. With Montana weather (wintery), construction has been mostly indoors.  The drywall is almost ready for paint.  The interior doors are being installed.  The replacement garage doors have gone in.  And some smaller inside jobs have been done (like building out the fireplace and putting the mantel in place, and building out the master shower wall with its cove shelf.  Hopefully next week will be...warmer. Drywall taping and mudding is nearly complete. The correct garage doors are no in place. Interior doors are being hung. (standing in the dinging room) The fireplace and mantel are now re...

It seems that we have entered the season of squalls here in Montana.  A squall is a sudden, localized, and short-lived storm which often brings rain or snow.  The squalls here are most often...snow. Today, we had just such a squall.  It last for about three minutes and resulted in little more than wet patio cement.  And just as quickly as it arrived, the clouds moved on revealing a blue sky and just a hint of sun.