Daily Archives: December 23, 2011

I have no cell phone reception at home.  There’s a small mountain behind our house, which is  called Custer Mountain.  It’s more of a large hill really, covered at the base with sagebrush and then higher up with aspen groves and Ponderosa pines. As far as I know it bears no relation to the infamous General.  At its top is a windmill, which powers a pump to pull painfully cold, clear water straight up from the base of that hill, filling a stock tank which used to provide water for grazing cattle, but now primarily serves as refreshment for our local herd of elk. (more…)