Bright Ideas

June is historically our rainiest month. So, where was the rain? What does this mean, if anything? Is this an effect of global warming? Is it just another dry period like we have experienced before? How many months or years will we be dry? Will summer or fall showers replace the current lack of precipitation?

On our way home from Miles City, June 28, we drove through two heavy showers that could have totaled half an inch. When we got home, Brice checked the rain gauge, and it was just a trace.

That’s a lot of question marks in that first paragraph, a lot of questions to answer, and fears to as...