Entry from Journal #1: August 31, 1930

Had a snow storm.

It’s somewhat unusual for it to snow in August in this area of Montana – but not unheard of.  I remember snow flurries at my grandmother’s funeral in late August 1966.

The photo below was taken many years after the journal entry above, and probably not in August, but it gives us an idea of how Mary’s “home and patch”, as she referred to it, might have looked following a snow storm.  Notice her skis and poles (center of the picture) standing up in the snow.  And I can’t help but wonder who chopped and stacked all the wood!