Planning and Implementation, Part 2

I assume that everyone desires to have a bison skull their own.  If someone ever walked up to you and said “I have a bison skull if you are interested,” you would likely answer, as I did: “Hell, yes, I am interested!”

I acquired the bison skull and then built my cabin around the skull.

Now the story.

I acquired my bison skull from a fairly odd (but agreeable) stone mason who had—as a second avocation—a business where he raised carrion-eating beetles.  He used the beetles to clean the flesh from bones and skulls.  For the sake of my own sanity, I did not ask too many questions.  I purchased the bison skull from the mason with a thought in mind that the bison skull would find a spot high on a wall under a wall-washing light in my cabin.

I did not have a cabin at the time I acquired the skull, but had recently purchased some mountain property and was in the process of designing the cabin.  I started working on the cabin in 2003.  Over the years since, I have spent countless weekends hauling materials over Flesher Pass and tinkering with my hand and power tools to I bring the cabin from the ground and began finish work.  Three days ago, I finally hung the bison skull on the wall of my cabin.

  

Posted is a photograph of the skull taken outside my cabin and a photograph the skull after I hung it on the wall.

--Mitchell Hegman