{"id":965,"date":"2008-11-22T15:48:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T21:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:14:14","slug":"bigfork-montana-call-to-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/11\/bigfork-montana-call-to-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigfork, Montana &#8211; Call to Arms!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/ElvesClose500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>D Day (Decoration Day) 2008 &#8211; Bigfork Elves turned out this morning in response to the Secretary of Decorating&#8217;s Call to Active Duty!<\/p>\n<p>The Village was decorated from top to bottom &#8211; everything upright gets a beribboned tree attached to it.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFConstructionFence400297.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"297\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 207px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All hands &#8211; large and small &#8211; man the machines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFChildCherryPicker450385.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"385\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 385px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Village entrances are guarded from normal traffic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFElvesSignOnly400307.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"307\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 307px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFElvesAtWorkB500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Friends meet&#8230; &#8211; my friend and last year&#8217;s house and Bob caretaker, Sara and her friend Bill<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFBillAndSara.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"533\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 533px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Work and talk, talk and work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFEvaGates500381.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"381\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 381px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Beverage Babes&#8221; dispense beverages to hard working elves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFBevBabes500375.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"375\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 375px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Left is Gretchen Gates of Eva Gates Preserves and right is Donna Lawson of The Jug Tree Liquor Store.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFBevBabesRear500394.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"394\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 394px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;what is in the unmarked container????<\/p>\n<p>At the north end of the village is the Bigfork Inn:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFInnSign400262.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 262px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This morning, the Inn was host to a continental breakfast for the elves.  The Inn also keeps a fire pit going so that cold elves can gather to warm up. <\/p>\n<p>Next to the Inn, the Village Christmas tree is being decorated &#8211; Yes, we say CHRISTMAS here in Bigfork, MT!  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFTreeFinal500488.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"488\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 488px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov08\/BFTreeTop350405.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"350\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 405px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, as always on Decorating Day Night, is the tree lighting ceremony and the village art walk. If I overcome my wimpiness for venturing out away from my fire, after dark, there might be photos of that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D Day (Decoration Day) 2008 &#8211; Bigfork Elves turned out this morning in response to the Secretary of Decorating&#8217;s Call to Active Duty! The Village was decorated from top to bottom &#8211; everything upright gets a beribboned tree attached to it. 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