Montana Weather--be careful what you wish for!

The weather finally changed.

I should have written about it sooner.

It seldom fails. Pen a column lamenting the endless days of clear skies and balmy temps, and by the time those words reach print there will be a change.

Just days after writing that column I found myself standing in a cold, steady rain in Livingston watching my grandson in goal for the Park High Rangers soccer team during a Class A State semifinal match against Whitefish.

The Rangers won in a shutout but lost the next week to a very talented Columbia Falls team in the title tilt.

I was at that game, too, nursing a cold I’...