Off Grid Cabin B&B LLC - Yaak, Montana

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Off Grid Cabin B&B LLC - Yaak, Montana Off Grid Cabin B&B LLC - Yaak, Montana is located in the very northern part of the Yaak Valley.

It's been a busy week, and the weather was beautiful until this weekend ... 🌦I have spent this past week getting more re...
10/12/2026

It's been a busy week, and the weather was beautiful until this weekend ... 🌦

I have spent this past week getting more ready for winter! It seems that all summer long you're working at bringing enough firewood in for the winter, and getting other outside jobs done ... this weekend it was somewhat rainy and the high temps were in the 40°s 😵‍💫 thankfully, the temps go back up in the 50° - 60° weather with sunshine!

What did I do after working at the school??? ... it was finishing up bringing firewood onto the porch, raking up grass piles from w**d whacking, and reorganizing and cleaning up around the shed area ... that has been irritating me for a couple of years ... 🤨

This next week I work at the Yaak School for only a couple of days due to non-instructional days off ... I have been making a 100+ fall leaves 🍂🍁🍂 for the bulletin board and classrooms this past week 😅 ... I still have more to do 🫣 🍂🍁🍂 ... I am now the "Leaf Lady" ... 😂

My plans outside this week while the weather is good is to do more w**d whacking, raking grass up, and begin to lop more branches along my 1/4 mile drive ... in the winter when the snow ❄️ is on the branches it freezes 🥶 and the snowy blobs hit my truck windshield ... I don't need a cracked windshield!

THE JOBS NEVER END ... 😵‍💫 ...

I have some pics of w**d whacking progress, and where I piled the the grass to keep my water line hopefully from not freezing ... the Western Larch are turning a beautiful ocher yellow 💛

10/12/2026

This is the company Michael and I bought our cabin from, and we also bought the "Assembly Package" too ... it was good doing business with them!

10/03/2026

This is the East Fork of the Yaak River ... it flows into the North Fork becoming the Yaak River ... downstream is the West Fork and the South Fork creating a beautiful river!

10/03/2026

This was done yesterday ... October 3 ... Fall is in the air on the East Fork of the Yaak River that runs into the North Fork of Yaak River ... becoming the Yaak River!!! 30 seconds of peacefulness.

It's nice to have a sunny Saturday morning to enjoy a cup of coffee, and think some of what to post today ... looking th...
10/03/2026

It's nice to have a sunny Saturday morning to enjoy a cup of coffee, and think some of what to post today ... looking through my pics 📸 of our adventure of the building of our log cabin from May 2020 to the end of 2021 brings back a lot of good memories 😍. Today is one of those really good memories ... Michael and I putting three sets of stairs on the porches the summer of 2021!!!

We moved into the cabin April of 2021, but getting into the cabin was a chore ... we had a ladder 🪜 strapped to the front porch area, and we got really good at going up and down fast!!! It was and is a LUXURY to have stairs and handrails!!!

So, the story today is about Michael and I putting in the three sets of stairs ... two sets for the front porch (southwest side and east side) which is 8'×42' and one set for the backdoor porch (northwest side).

The first thing we had to do was drive to a Home Depot and buy "risers" ... after talking with Meadowlark Log Homes on what dimensions (degrees) we needed for the handrails to be installed by a subcontractor. Yes, there's math involved and it's crucial that you get it right!!! The subcontractor was impressed with our stairs installation ... Michael did a good job on the math!

We had left over 12"w×2"×16'l fir lumber left over from the porch flooring ... it made great stairs that we cut to length on our chop saw ... that board lumber was heavy and ackward to move each piece to the porch, but we got it done! 💪💪💪💪

You will see from the photos 📸 some of the process of stair sets being built ... IT IS CRUCIAL THAT YOU BEGIN WITH LEVEL GROUND OR YOU HAVE A MESS TO FIX ... DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME!!!

You will see that the outside of the cabin has not been sanded, stained, chinked, and sealed as of yet ... that is a great deal of money that we didn't have at that time. Michael's passing away almost two years ago has set that plan back, but I hope to be able to do that next summer ... I believe in miracles ...️ 🙏

09/27/2026

This is a great job in Montana ...

It's "Nuts and Bolts" Saturday afternoon, and today I will write about the most important room in our Off Grid Cabin B&B...
09/26/2026

It's "Nuts and Bolts" Saturday afternoon, and today I will write about the most important room in our Off Grid Cabin B&B LLC - Yaak, Montana ... the Kitchen!!! It is located at the back of the Great Room ... so when you walk through the front door you see the Kitchen ... that means it has to not only look good, but also be useful. It is the most expensive room too!!! ...

We started with the layout for visual design and for practicality ... a kitchen design should be a triangle 🔺️ ... at the TOP is the sink ... the LEFT side is the stove ... the RIGHT side is the frig ... that makes for easier movement working in the kitchen! Then you need to plan for electrical outlets, water pipes, and gas for appliances ... we had propane for the stove ... we should have also had it for a frig when living "off grid"!!! We don't have many electrical appliances because of drawing too much power ... no dishwasher, toaster, waffle iron, etc.

Once you have a floor plan, then you need a business that sells and installs the cabinets, shelves, and counter-tops ... We had not the most helpful business, but the kitchen turned out good ... I still love my kitchen!

Because you need to frame in front of log walls, you will need to be prepared for a few inches less in floor space. You must do this ... if you attach cabinets to log walls and it "settles a couple of inches" ... your cabinets will be destroyed!!!

We were building during Covid, and in May of 2021 we selected our kitchen cabinets ... ordered them and they would not be built and delivered until the first part of October ... a four month wait ... ☹️ the cabinets were delivered, but not installed until weeks later. The upper shelving was built in Libby, and it was frustrating at that slow pace of being in November ... we were to have everything in the cabin done by the end of December to go from a Construction Loan to a Home Loan ... that was our banks deadline!!!

Here are some photos of the kitchen coming together ...

It is becoming a beautiful time of Fall, and the weather is cooler ... I now wear my winter coat in the morning outside ...
09/26/2026

It is becoming a beautiful time of Fall, and the weather is cooler ... I now wear my winter coat in the morning outside to work ... 🍂 ...
.. also it is now a morning ritual to turn on the "stand-alone electronic propane heater" when each morning the inside cabin temp is 60°!!! I am holding off on starting a fire 🔥 in the wood stove until later in October ... it is hard believe this will be the last week of September 😳 ... this year is flying by!!!

Wednesday was a fun day outside for the Yaak K-8 School students ... the Yaak Valley Conservation Council brought a truck full of native trees and brush to plant by the "overflow" dry creek bed ... it detours spring water runoff from the school yard. The students helped for two+ hours in planting the vegetation, and learned some good things about conservation. I took a couple of photos 📸 ...

Heading home after school got out, I took some photos also of some bushes (Syringa?) that change color (yellow) next to the Water Birch (white/gray) bark. I have found that you need to take photos when you see it ... the opportunity only lasts a couple of days!!! 🍂

I hope that this new Fall season is beautiful for you too ... 🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂

09/23/2026

This was good to watch ... 🦌

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333 Wood Creek Trail
Troy, MT
59935

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