2017 — Smith Homestake. Deadwood, South Dakota

Meet Bob, He didn't fair to well and this is what we found left of him.   We will just say he passed from natural causes...We figured we would mount him to watch the mountain for us.

Facing due south. This will be the guest wing view when the house is built.

This is after we cleared most of the ground cover. This will be the great room view. This faces South East.

Our first mountain skid steer. I was tired of renting.

Poor Bob, always trying to photo bomb us.. Anyway you can see some of the lower loop driveway here. This faces East and if you turned left at the back you would be on the RV sites.

Before the RV pads. 2016

RV sites and lower driveway loop.

This is the base of the driveway. You can see the new gates we put in that were just dropped off. Facing west at the bottom of the property.

This is about 3/4 of the way up the driveway. The large dirt spot you see we just added to house a 2000 sq ft garage.

Looking down the driveway towards the bottom of the drive.

Standing at the split of the lower RV pad looking up to the top. You see my temporary generator shed.

This is the right turn at the top to enter into the upper loop.

Coming out of the upper loop where you can go back down the driveway or to the RV pads on the right.

Looking back up towards the back half of the upper loop. To the left will be the garages to the house where you see that pile of dirt and dead trees at the top.

Here is the dog run before

And after. About 13000 sq feet.  Took us 2.5 days to do it. Not bad for our first fence.

If you look towards the back you can see how far the fence runs.

Deer were a bit confused on the new fence.

My favorite part of the day. Mornings.

Every morning brought something different to see

Look closely. This is the first rainbow I have ever seen start off the ground. I am thinking there is a pot of gold at the base of that tree.. Im gonna need a bigger shovel.....

Here is one of the 3 mines on the property. I have not gone in my self yet. From what the neighbors tell me there is a mountain lion living in one of them. Each cave goes in 100 feet or so and then splits into two directions. Each direction have not

Here is the second mine. The 3rd one has had the entrance filled in by ground cover. Gonna need to clear that before going in.

This is one of the mine overhangs. The entrance is under the ledge

The worst part of a small town in the mountains is the traffic jams. Look closely

Big horn sheep are the traffic jam... These are smaller ones.

A buck hanging out with his buddies the Turkeys. There the local gang problem in these parts

We have also spotted a rare sloth sighting or even a with spotted mini deer below. Very rare

Buck and friends

look close at the next few pics. These are all the deer I spotted just walking the property

This is the start of one of the walking trails. It takes you down into the ferns and comes up past the dog pen. Next trip Ill finish the extension that will be the deer path. It takes you through all the deer nests.

One of the many cliffs on the property.

Looking down

This is the future site of the slate stone patio and fire pit.

Facing west at mid point of the property

Cool rain storm moved in below us. It rained below us at this point.

This is on the south side of the property at a lower point looming down to where the stream is and the lower part of the property.

You can see the deer travel this path daily.

Rare mini mountain lion.. lol.

Michele hanging with Duke throwing his ball.

Sasquatch

Here is a shot facing south west. You can see the castle where the neighbor fires a real civil war cannon from on the 4th of July.

The spotted deer and Sasquatch hanging out

Guest wing view once again.

For the gun guys, Next trip this will be turned into a private 100 yard shooting range.

Temporary shooting range.

Shooting the big guns.

The nights are so quiet and peaceful.

The steps we put In to get to the dog run, lower walking trail and soon to be fire pit and seating area.

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Meet Bob, He didn't fair to well and this is what we found left of him.   We will just say he passed from natural causes...We figured we would mount him to watch the mountain for us.

Facing due south. This will be the guest wing view when the house is built.

This is after we cleared most of the ground cover. This will be the great room view. This faces South East.

Our first mountain skid steer. I was tired of renting.

Poor Bob, always trying to photo bomb us.. Anyway you can see some of the lower loop driveway here. This faces East and if you turned left at the back you would be on the RV sites.

Before the RV pads. 2016

RV sites and lower driveway loop.

This is the base of the driveway. You can see the new gates we put in that were just dropped off. Facing west at the bottom of the property.

This is about 3/4 of the way up the driveway. The large dirt spot you see we just added to house a 2000 sq ft garage.

Looking down the driveway towards the bottom of the drive.

Standing at the split of the lower RV pad looking up to the top. You see my temporary generator shed.

This is the right turn at the top to enter into the upper loop.

Coming out of the upper loop where you can go back down the driveway or to the RV pads on the right.

Looking back up towards the back half of the upper loop. To the left will be the garages to the house where you see that pile of dirt and dead trees at the top.

Here is the dog run before

And after. About 13000 sq feet.  Took us 2.5 days to do it. Not bad for our first fence.

If you look towards the back you can see how far the fence runs.

Deer were a bit confused on the new fence.

My favorite part of the day. Mornings.

Every morning brought something different to see

Look closely. This is the first rainbow I have ever seen start off the ground. I am thinking there is a pot of gold at the base of that tree.. Im gonna need a bigger shovel.....

Here is one of the 3 mines on the property. I have not gone in my self yet. From what the neighbors tell me there is a mountain lion living in one of them. Each cave goes in 100 feet or so and then splits into two directions. Each direction have not

Here is the second mine. The 3rd one has had the entrance filled in by ground cover. Gonna need to clear that before going in.

This is one of the mine overhangs. The entrance is under the ledge

The worst part of a small town in the mountains is the traffic jams. Look closely

Big horn sheep are the traffic jam... These are smaller ones.

A buck hanging out with his buddies the Turkeys. There the local gang problem in these parts

We have also spotted a rare sloth sighting or even a with spotted mini deer below. Very rare

Buck and friends

look close at the next few pics. These are all the deer I spotted just walking the property

This is the start of one of the walking trails. It takes you down into the ferns and comes up past the dog pen. Next trip Ill finish the extension that will be the deer path. It takes you through all the deer nests.

One of the many cliffs on the property.

This is the future site of the slate stone patio and fire pit.

Facing west at mid point of the property

Cool rain storm moved in below us. It rained below us at this point.

This is on the south side of the property at a lower point looming down to where the stream is and the lower part of the property.

You can see the deer travel this path daily.

Rare mini mountain lion.. lol.

Michele hanging with Duke throwing his ball.

Here is a shot facing south west. You can see the castle where the neighbor fires a real civil war cannon from on the 4th of July.

The spotted deer and Sasquatch hanging out

Guest wing view once again.

For the gun guys, Next trip this will be turned into a private 100 yard shooting range.

Temporary shooting range.

Shooting the big guns.

The nights are so quiet and peaceful.

The steps we put In to get to the dog run, lower walking trail and soon to be fire pit and seating area.