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and yes! Montana Horses has had the ranch up for a while. Fantastic people, probably is muddy/dusty (but...commuting distance to Sacajawea Inn in Three Forks!)
Don't know what the arrangement is, but the property is technically owned by an investment identity. I stopped in and met 'em once, nice people and a real nice setup. And yes indeed, the Sacajawea ...only ate there once, but good food, great atmosphere, and the annual plague of bicycle riders bent on suicide on the two-lane frontage road!!
The big problem with most of the area north of Three Forks (aside from the horrid clay so-called soil) is once you get up off the flat, you can drill 700 feet and still not hit water (closer to 1000 feet over in Broadwater County). The Clarkston subdivision itself was a (well-documented) scam -- they couldn't sell the lots to savvy Montanans, so they sold 'em to gullible Hawaiians!
Murdoch's! Yep! We lost our "high end" clothing store, Western Warehouse, so now we have what ever Murdoch's offers AND we can get that new weed whacker twine AND several bags of feed at the same time, so it's all good!
While I was out of state for 29 years, Murdoch's ate Big R that used to carry all the weird stuff you couldn't get anywhere else. I guess that side is now Shipton's, where it still exists. I wasn't real impressed with the Shipton's in Billings, tho. Like Murdoch's in Bozeman a whole lot better! (Tho I've got a Tractor Supply just up the road... cheaper than Murdoch's, but not quite the selection.)
That's where I get traction sand also, for the back of my pickup, which of course I forgot to take out one year.
My dually is rear-heavy enough that I don't need sandbags... it's the front that tends to slide!!
So, as the days wear on , the bags open, and the dirt falls out, and gets rained on, and grass starts to grow, and pretty soon I'm driving around with my own little garden. The Murdoch guys were great! They kept wanting to sell me seeds to see what else I could grow back there...
Oho, a portable garden, what a fantastic concept! So what all did you grow back there? I'm thinkin' zucchini makes a good start.
Q: Why do people in Great Falls lock their cars during August?
A: So they don't come back and find bags of zucchini on the front seat!
(Truth.)
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