We got to St Mary, MT yesterday after a slight delay. One of the wheels on our RV sheared off at the axle and flew into the middle of a field. We were lucky we weren't on the freeway at the time cause it could have caused a terrible accident. Our emergency road service came through for us again and got the help we needed to us and they had us back on the road with only a days delay.

St Mary is beautiful and these other pictures are from our campsite at Johnson's of St Mary. We started work today so we haven't had a chance to do any driving around the area yet and probably won't for a few days cause the restaurant will be opening tomorrow. The Road to the Sun we're told won't be opening until the end of June so we won't do that trip for a while but we will get out and about as soon as we have a day off. I'll post more pictures when we get them.

We have 3 other Workamper couples working and camping near us. I worked with one couple today and found them to be real nice folks and good workers, the other couple just arrived today so I've just met them so far.

The weather is just beautiful right now here. It's real warm and there's a good stiff breeze. It was even warm for sleeping last night which was a surprize to me, usually our experience in the west has been cool nights even if it is warm during the day. It seems a bit dry here, they may be in need of some rain from the looks of the ground but everything is green and the trees are leafing out from the snow run-off. A few wildflowers are up and hopefully there will be more soon, I've been reading about all the beautiful wildflowers this area is known for.

Richard was busy all day prepping for tomorrows opening, everything is made from scratch here. We were told they only make one soup and it's never been the same in the 59 years they've been open cause it's always made from the leftovers, should be interesting. They make all their breads and desserts as well.

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Finally some pictures!

These show the carpenters taking the kitchen off, digging the big hole for the crawl space and the footings after the concrete was poured.

On the road again.

It's time to start off on another adventure. Tomorrow morning we'll be heading for St Mary, MT on the east side of Glacier Nat'l Park. It's Johnson's of St Mary we'll call home for the next 4 months. I'm excited cause I haven't really seen this part of the country. We went through Glacier during the night when we were on a cross country train trip one time but, we couldn't see anything so it will be all new to us.

We're sad to leave our new home at Butte, NE, especially since it's in such a unfinished state. We're going to have to rely on my brother sending us pictures as the building project continues. To date they tore off the old kitchen, dug a huge hole for the crawl space and built and filled forms with concrete for the foundation. It's raining now but, in a few days they'll put styrofoam forms up that will be filled with more concrete and there will then be good cement walls for the house to sit on instead of the rock they used before. When I'm on my own computer I'll include some pictures of what the house used to sit on, the new foundation is going to be so much better that it will be worth the wait.

My brother still plans to get the plumbing and wiring done without us, I don't know what we would have done without him on this project. That way when we come home things will be ready for us to get the bathroom and kitchen together real fast. We hope to have those 2 rooms ready before we leave for where ever we end up going for the Santa Season the middle of Nov. I've decided to put new cabinets in the kitchen which will be easier than restoring the old ones. We've been told to stop on our way back to Neb. at the Habitat for Humanity store in Sioux Falls, SD and see what they have for cabinets it's a real good store usually. If they don't have anything then we'll head to Menard's or Home Depot for unfinished cabinets and I'll paint them myself.

We're leaving Neb. in full spring, garden's coming up and flowers are blooming and heading to the end of winter again I think. We'll get to go through spring again so I'm hoping for lots of wildflowers like we had in the Tetons last year.