Grand River Roundup - Rapid City Journal

Last week, I was complaining about the almost 100 degree temperature we had last Saturday on the day of Lanie’s wedding in our yard. On Sunday, the next day after the wedding, the mercury dropped to 41 degrees and everyone was wearing jackets. The first part of the week stayed cool, but Friday afternoon while we were driving home from Hettinger the car thermometer registered 101 degrees. The wind on Saturday that gusted to 68 mph cooled us down to 42 degrees and littered the yard with more tree branches. The lowest temperature we saw was 33 degrees Monday morning, but Trig had to scrape frost of his windshield before he left of the first day of school in Buffalo. Taz turned 23 last Monday and he celebrated his birthday by helping Missy and Trig clean up the REC Center in Buffalo where the wedding reception was held. I went in to see him in Buffalo, but I would have loved to hear his conversations with the Lemmon folks about the Pautre Fire and Thune’s efforts to make the federal government accountable for the damage they cause. The Pautre fire that destroyed thousands of acres of pasture was a “controlled burn” set by the Forest Service against the advice of local ranchers. At the meeting in Hettinger after the fire, the Forest Service took full responsibility and said that they would pay for all the losses in two years. Source: rapidcityjournal.com