Looking forward to mud

I knew it was bad when folks around here quit saying we could use the moisture.

Following last year’s wicked drought, I swore I’d never again complain about too much rain or snow. There was a time – not so long ago—that I thought it would never end. Up until the middle of December, the weather remained warm and dry. There had even been a wildfire south of Malta on Thanksgiving.

Then the switch flipped. It got cold and started to snow. Since the first of the year there have only been a couple of days when the temperatures reached 40 degrees.

For much of Montana, the snow comes and goes. When I...