Matt Skoglund

And he was like, Don Vanneman.

And I was like, holy shit.

I was like, Hey, I'm like, I was like, Don, I'm like, uh, I'm like these, I'm on your website and there's these three parcels up in the shield Valley.

I'm like, are those for sale?

And he's like, you betcha.

I'm like, can I go look at him?

He's like, whenever the hell you want.

I was like,

That Saturday, took the kids up, expecting to find, like, a toxic landfill in the middle.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I was like, holy shit.

Like, this is spectacular.

So we came back, and I was like, Sarah, I'm like, next weekend, we got to go look at this.

And we, you know, we did our due diligence, so we kept looking online to see if something else made more sense.

Mm-hmm.

That was that, that the, our land, it's the only land we looked at in person, nothing ever, nothing else even came close to make us go look at it.

And by late may, we were like, you know, and this was pre COVID pre Kevin Costner, Yellowstone TV show.

But even then we were like the way Bozeman's going, if we don't get this under contract, all this work goes up on a shelf and the way Bozeman's going, it's never coming off that shelf.

And so we got it under contract.

And got as long a closing date as possible.