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The summertime has always been a time of adventure for me. When I was a kid, there was nothing anybody could do to keep me inside if it was nice out. My partner-in-crime, Timmy, helped me build and defend great castles in the trees behind my house. Our imaginations knew no limits. Whether I was the home run king of dirt clods or Timmy had found the perfect place to build a “hide-out," we were inseparable. We swam in the creek and had more fun than any two boys could ever have. I can still feel the sweat dripping off my face. It is a memory I look back on with great love and I hope I will never forget it. Now as a new parent, I can’t believe that I get to witness my own child explore and discover. I realize that through his eyes, even the simplest things are an adventure. His face has never lit up the way it did when he saw his first floating bubble, or when we introduced him to his new cat! With a different perspective, I'm beginning to understand that these innocent moments are fleeting. And I hope that my boy can experience every one of them as purely as I was able to. This time of year is best spent doing the things you love the most. Whether that be a quick drive to Pompeys Pillar or a night out on the town at any of the fine restaurants in Billings, any time is adventure time. Go out and find a “Timmy” and explore everything this wonderful city has to offer. See things with fresh eyes, even if you may have seen them a hundred times before. You never know what fun could await you.

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AMANDA FERSTER GOES FROM VOLUNTEER TO FIRE CHIEF

Amanda Ferster is the fire chief of Absarokee Volunteer Fire Department. That’s right—she is. Amanda, though, doesn’t care too much for titles or norms within this line of work. She just wants things to be done with intention, integrity, and with a little enthusiasm. As a third generation volunteer firefighter, Amanda has a husband, brother-in-law, brother, and a father currently volunteering in her department or in the Red Lodge department. The line of firefighters in the family starts with her grandfather, who was the assistant chief and then chief in Red Lodge, and her father just passed the 40 year milestone—he’s a captain. Amanda had been in the Absarokee Volunteer Fire Department for five years before becoming chief last summer and let’s just say that her introduction to firefighting was, well, trial by fire. “It was a little intimidating being the only female on the department, and then they just hand you a radio and say, ‘come down when the page goes out.’” Amanda arrived at her first fire—a wildland fire—without having received any preliminary training and was handed a hose. “When I joined [the department] it was different than it is now because I’ve made a lot of changes and so it was a lot of ‘learn on the job,’ which can be good and bad,” said Amanda. The summers leading up to her promotion as chief were filled with small wildland fires, typically a few per summer. It wasn’t until after she became chief that she got the crux of her experience as a firefighter, having to command and control structure fires that popped up quite frequently within her jurisdiction. “When I took over as chief, I started going to the DNRC (Department of Natural Resources and Conservation) to

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get all of the classes and task books that I needed to be qualified in certain areas and to be in command of a fire,” said Amanda. “I wanted to gain all of the knowledge that I could so I could effectively command my guys and effectively make the decisions that need to be made instead of just guessing.” “To actually join the department, you don’t have to have any [training] prior but once you’re on, then we require you to go through the basic wildland training through the DNRC office,” said Amanda. Managing her department is not something that Amanda takes lightly. She knows that frustration, disorganization, and loss of interest can happen when the proper education or experience isn’t available. For Amanda, adopting a new program derived from a mentor of hers—a fire chief in Glasgow—was pivotal. “It’s a mentorship program for the guys that we bring on so they’re not just being thrown on a fire,” said Amanda. This program would help others just joining the department not be in the scary position that Amanda once found herself in. “They have a mentor who spends time with them, helps train them, and who is on the fire with them so they already have that trust in each other.” Each new volunteer is assigned a mentor when they are going to be brought onto the department and this asset also helps weed out the people who aren’t as serious as Amanda requires them to be. Volunteer work does attract different levels of eagerness, and Amanda likes for anyone in her department to know that there are expectations. And of course those expectations go both ways—for the members and for management. Amanda saw a lack of enthusiasm or interest when she was a training officer. When she

“I WANTED TO GAIN ALL OF THE KNOWLEDGE THAT I COULD SO I COULD EFFECTIVELY COMMAND MY GUYS AND EFFECTIVELY MAKE THE DECISIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE INSTEAD OF JUST GUESSING.” — Amanda Ferster

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became chief, her attitude was set on changing things for the better of the whole. “My department—my guys—are amazing. They stand behind me 100%,” said Amanda. She laughed when she said that she speaks her mind rather loudly—something that actually landed her in this chief position—and she humbly turns to her father in gratitude for helping to guide her in this role. “I actually lean on [dad] and the Red Lodge department a lot because I grew up over there. I would go to him with stuff and say, ‘this doesn’t make sense to me.’” To which her father would agree and share his experience. “Now that I’ve taken over as chief, I call him pretty frequently and ask, ‘how are you doing this?’” That inspiration and familial bond doesn’t fall far from the tree. Amanda’s daughter, Ronni, says she wants to be a fire chief just like mom someday.

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ADVENTURE IN LIVING Talking barndominiums with interior designer Rebecca Langman

ARTICLE BY REBECCA LANGMAN

It doesn’t take a specialist to agree that the housing market is a bit difficult to navigate right now. High prices and steep competition (while not always for the faint of heart) force us to engage beyond the everyday norm and seek innovation. As if higher market values and competition weren’t enough, try finding land for building a new home within city limits as another obstacle to overcome. You end up with two immediate options: pay a premium for in-fill city acreage or build at the edge of city limits. If you’re like me and don’t mind adding a little commute in trade for saving money, you may find that outskirts acreage offers major benefits: space to spread out, beautiful views, and fewer covenant or HOA restrictions, but more importantly, freedom to innovate. Enter the “barndominium” or “shop house.” These building choices are aptly named because they usually look like a large, rectangular utility building, a working barn, or a large enclosed shop area. However, hidden behind those exterior walls, either at one end or on a second floor, is a fully functioning house. The finishes can be as typical or atypical as you like. Your decor might even include a collection of vintage cars or a tinkerer’s workshop, both two steps away from your living room. Innovation lives beyond just the practicality of these structures. They are often built like pole barns with different

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materials than a typical stick-build single family home. In the past, the metal framing for an out building was considered to be an upgrade, but with costs now being similar to lumber, it’s a logical choice. Material innovations also allow for increased durability, lower square footage cost, and luxury features beyond what might be available in a traditional home. If you’re wondering how one can make a square building aesthetically pleasing inside, remember that the structure of a building like this is supported on the exterior walls. You’re free to create large and spacious open areas inside in addition to room placements wherever they may suit you. Now is a great time to explore and be a little adventurous when it comes to your home. You can find information about basic barndominiums online and/or consult with a professional designer to create your own custom version. Rebecca Langman Owner & Lead Designer of Revision Custom Home Design Rebecca@RCHomeDesign.com 406.690.2263 RCHomeDesign.com

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LEARN TO BE WILLING AND IT’LL LEAD TO ADVENTURE

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CHOOSING INCONVENIENCE Adventure. The Rocky Mountain West has a big claim on this concept, although it happens all over the world every day. Some adventures are thrust upon us, but I’m talking about voluntary adventure—the kind that we seek out of a desire to experience life in a more exciting and perhaps more truthful way. What would I do if nothing was standing in my way? One might hang glide or skydive or ice climb or drag race, but there are many tame versions of adventure, as in taking up a new hobby or exploring local attractions or stopping to talk with a stranger on the street. Even sitting on a gentle wooded slope with a pair of binoculars can bring exhilarating discoveries. If I choose a demanding activity that’s slightly beyond my comfort zone, do I have a better chance of succeeding if I commit to acute mindfulness about doing it? A lot of skiers, kayakers, climbers, hunters, hikers, surfers, and mountain bikers would say yes, this is a sound hypothesis. Mindfulness is the best way to both improve one’s skill and stay safe. And this intensity of focus certainly opens the mind and heart to sensations not found in the cozy village far below. There’s a growing trend to chose experiences over acquiring stuff. “Do I dare open that bulletproof, fireproof combination safe where I’ve locked up my dreams and

say, ‘Oh, I’ll do that later, when life is more stable, when I’m more secure?’ What if I try to make this really creative vision—one that I’ve always dreamed of—come true and I fail? Do I even dare to ask, ‘What if ?’” This assessment of risk was, ironically, written by New York Times writer Carl Richards, who is a financial planner. My author friend Tom Harpole of Helena, who recently published Regarding Willingness: Chronicles of a Fraught Life, draws a connection between his curiosity and the many eye-widening adventures he’s had. “Some challenges have fundamental parts that I understand and I want to see how the sum of the parts come together to keep me alive,” he says. “About a dozen of the 17 essays in Regarding Willingness are about me doing things that could have killed me. Each of those fraught situations attracted my curious self and I wanted answers, even if I had to sacrifice my own safety.” And the title tells us something too: it’s important to be willing. Sacrificing comfortable security means that every time we choose adventure, we bring back into our lives a childlike curiosity and faith. The unknown, with all its inconvenience and mystery, beckons. Who will we be when we come out the other side? How will this change us? Adventure is more than taking risks; it is a journey that goes on even

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after we land the plane or fold the tent or fork some hay for the tired horse. It does change us, and that change is deep and permanent. We prove to ourselves that identity is fluid, that curiosity is a fine thing, and that we can still learn.

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New Tricks AN INTERVIEW WITH JESE STETSON

A craftsman is only as good as his tools, and Jese Stetson has some impressive welding instruments lying around his Fromberg forge. Near the center of the workshop stands a well-loved anvil that Stetson inherited from his great-grandfather. “Every mar and mark over the last hundred years was added by a family member,” said Jese. “I love that I get to continue using it.” A fourth-generation rancher, Jese centers all his work on his family’s tradition of quality products and creative flair, but he does so with a unique twist to our times. To market his custom-crafted knives, he uses a tool rarely associated with old trades and Montana ranches: the social media app, TikTok. “I’ve been making knives for about twenty years, but I only started selling them a year ago,” said Jese. “Before that, it was a hobby. I would make them for family and friends as gifts.

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Our Colorado ranch sold two years ago and my dad and I went on one last hoorah down there, elk-hunting in the fall. I found an old farrier rasp in my great-grandfather’s dairy barn. It’s like a fingernail file for horse hooves. I took it and made a knife out of it for my dad’s birthday, and I put pictures on Facebook. A bunch of people reached out and wanted one. The business took off organically from there,” said Jese. TikTok, Jese learned, was an easy way to add music to his videos so he made a knife and took a video of himself dipping the knife in oil and getting the handle finished. The knife is called a bull-cutter, which is made of cholla cactus with real turquoise stones. “I woke up the next morning and the thing was blowing up. It went viral and got a couple million views. I got so many orders it crashed the website. That video was what got me established, and now I’m a couple-hundred deep on the waitlist,” said Jese. Humble as any good craftsman, Stetson refuses to namedrop, but plenty of the orders on that waitlist belong to celebrities—and business continues to pile. “It’s a juggling act,” said Jese of his expanding obligations. “I’m a husband first, then a father, then a rancher, then a knife-maker.” These roles keep Jese moving around the clock: traveling with his wife for her boutique business, Whiskey Flair; raising his teenage daughters and toddler son, and assisting his parents with ranching duties. At the end of this stack of duties, Jese still carves out the time to forge hunting knives, fishing knives, and cooking knives from materials as unique as giraffe bones and wooly mammoth tusks. “Bottom line is: I just don’t like to sleep much.” Luckily, Stetson’s family members are just as generous with their time. “They’ve all been tremendously

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supportive. I owe so much of my success to my parents, and I attribute it to growing up ranching. They instilled in me a work ethic that’s pretty tough to replace. It’s something I’ve tried to pass on. My daughters work with me a lot in the shop; they can build a knife from start to finish. They do a lot of irrigating and ranchwork for me, but they’ve done a lot of hand-sanding, too,” said Jese. Ranching often lends the hands of everyone in the family, and with that comes a lot of different skillsets. Jese taught his eldest daughter to weld with a stickwelder when she was just three years old. “She could write her name better with a stick-welder than she could with a pencil,” said Jese. Jese displays the first knives his daughters ever forged on the wall of his workshop, and they serve as a guiding symbol for his business. “The people I love to make knives for the most are the people who want to spend time outdoors with their kids. It’s something they’ll build cool memories with and eventually pass down,” said Jese. Like a knife handed down from father to daughter, social media is a double-edged tool, with just as much potential to divide the world as to unite it. “I used to chastise my girls all the time for being on TikTok,” Jese admitted, “and now their dad is on TikTok way more than they are. I hate the division that social media causes for sure, but the reality is no one would know who I was in little Fromberg, Montana without it. And it’s such a great business tool to reach people across the world. I’ve got to give credit where it’s due.” As for the older ranching generations’ attitude towards his TikTok account, Jese smiles and remarks, “My dad says I’ve always had the gift of gab, so it makes sense to him.” Find Jese Online Instagram: @StetsonForge TikTok: @StetsonForge Website: StetsonForge.com

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events A curated selection of the most intriguing upcoming events in our area.

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Westend Market

BILLIN G S S EAFOOD G UYS PARKI NG LOT, 320 1 H E S P E R R OA D | 9 :0 0 A M The Westend Market is the perfect opportunity to learn about and visit new vendors, while also indulging in some wild caught seafood from Billings Seafood Guys.

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31st Billings Strawberry Festival

STR EETS OF DOWN TOWN BILL I NG S | 9 :0 0 A M Something sweet is happening here! The Downtown Billings Alliance and TDS Fiber present the annual Strawberry Festival. This cherished and super sweet community event is Billings largest street festival and it kicks off the summer season!

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Mixed Media Meet Up

COOKED LIN E STUDIO | 6:00 P M Crooked Line Studio explores the world of mixed media art play! They're inviting you to join in on the first Thursday of each month from 6 to 8 p.m.

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Yellowstone Valley Farmers Market

DOW N TOWN BILLIN G S | 8 :00 A M Downtown Billings will be hosting the 36th annual Yellowstone Valley Farmers Market fro 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. High quality merchandise, entertainment, and fun for the whole family.

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O-Mok-See

BILLIN G S SADDLE CLUB | 7:00 P M Do you love watching equine related events and kids having some fun? Come on down to watch the weekly O-Mok-See where kids and horses turn and burn in some western horseback games.

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Open Mic Poetry Jam with Sean Myers

CRAFT LOCAL | 8 :00 PM Open mic poetry jam happens every second and fourth Tuesday night and is hosted by Sean Myers. Come enjoy the local art and fine brews. Open to all ages, no cover charge.

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