· The Micro-Shelf Strikes Again!

Sam did a little re-do on the microwave shelf in the Bluma Madle Suite and now he is building a log-accent shelf near the micro setup, for guests...a place to stash goodies.

Probably no-one cares except Sam, but I'm headed out to get lasagna fixings. Sam contends that there ARE more important things to do than watch rhubarb grow. sigh :)

· Antique Table Finishing and Micro-Shelf

Mountains To Prairies Bed and Breakfast (Black Hills Home Cabins) Finishing the antique table has become for Sam more of a CHALLENGE than a mere Project. He asked me to come look at it, thinking we'd also carry it into the house. BUT...he had applied the last coat of finish in the late afternoon ...and ...well ...who would think of gnats in mid-April? Hohum, here we go again—except it is raining, so challenge delayed. On the sunnier side...

How do you like the new micro-shelf that Sam built for the Bluma Madle Suite? In the second pic, Sam is demonstrating an old magnetic toy of Shelby and Ava's (granddaughters), which was placed on the little fridge for one of our toddler guests...

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Microwave Shelf in Bluma Madle Suite

· Construction Around the House

Mountains To Prairies Bed and Breakfast (Black Hills Home Cabins) - Sam is still applying finish to his newly sided outside wall (Chessie Lee's Peas Suite), process prolonged by snowfalls, excess cold or wind. In the meanwhile, he built an attractive microwave shelf as a topper for the short refrigerator in the Bluma Madle Suite. Plus he installed a gate to the backyard (for his use in maintenance tasks) on the privacy fence which is around the deck of the Prairie Homestead. Pics later. We just toted one of the antique breakfast tables to the deck for surface refinishing.

The RHUBARB which is planted along the boardwalk (leading to the Prairie Homestead) is just beginning to reach for sunshine, through traces of snow, pictured below. Does that not make you want to get out there and dirty your hands?

· The Bear Den

... for children in the Bluma Madle Suite at

Mountains To Prairies Bed and Breakfast

The brilliant expression of imagination, below,

we show by permission of the happy 'campers'...

The two youngest folks whom you see at breakfast

created the above fanciful nest ...

· Mickelson Trail Near Hill City

Just south of Hill City along the Mickelson Trail,

here is one relic of laborious pioneering history...

Visitors may also discover similar sights while

strolling north along the Trail.

Two springtime guests, in the Bluma Madle Suite,

enjoyed a walk on the Mickelson Trail before breakfast.

A short distance from Hill city, going north,

they spotted a few foxes at early-morning play.

They were fortunately quick with the camera...

No, that is not a contortionist fox,

but rather it is two fox pups,

one diving in and the other wiggling out.

Some of the locals who live next to the Trail

are unabashed beggars for affection...

And below is part of a Breyer horse collection

belonging to a recent 11-year old guest, 

who found a vacant shelf useful for corralling the herd.

She and her grandmother stayed in the

Chessie Lee's Peas Suite for 7 nights. Delightful pair!

The grandmother is an experienced, energetic hiker

living in the Colorado Rockies—

and while vacationing here,

she kept herself fit on the Mickelson Trail.