Looking out my Backdoor - Gloomy in Glendive

I would like to tell you it is all about the weather. I would be lying. Even though it seems like rain has followed me from Washington to Glacier to Harlem to Glendive, I am simply not that powerful.

I do not make the rain. Much as I would like to think it is all about me, it is not. Nor is it all about the weather. Weather is weather, variable. Today weather is rain. This is Montana. Tomorrow might bring a heat wave or it might snow.

This week and a half is all about family. My older daughter and her family, to be explicit.

The players: My daughter, Dee Dee. Her husband, Chris. Thei...