Early morning boat wrangling on Flathead Lake, Montana.

It’s like someone flicked the light switch off. Suddenly, all the summer tourists are gone.

All those burgers and huckleberry shakes with no one to enjoy them… but us.

To finish out Labor Day weekend, we attended a Montana make-your-own-pizza beach party.

The Flathead Lake site was a 100-year-old, renovated boat house. It sat upon a foundation of railroad ties made at the (once upon a time) nearby railroad tie mill.

A pleasant Labor Day Weekend afternoon with new and old friends at the historic site of Flathead Lake’s old StanCraft boat making facility — now a home with a massive industrial dock, 5 barges, and a whole lot of storage space.