If only I could have seen it

As wet as it’s been in some parts of Montana, it’s been dry as a bone in others.

I haven’t seen rain in more than a month at my home in Malta or my cabin on Fort Peck.

It rained in Malta last night but I missed it. I was headed home from the lake to water the garden when my wife called to tell me our dock – with pontoon boat attached – had blown off shore and was resting against a neighbors dock.

I turned around at Saco and headed back to our cabin on the appropriately named Big Dry Arm. Clouds were moving in across the Hi-line and the air smelled of smoke from the July Fire burni...