It is shaping up to be an interesting summer. The bridge over the Little Wind River on my road is still standing but two of the trusses are unsupported. This means I will likely do business in Lander about 20 something miles away and a trip to Riverton will be about 50 miles and a major undertaking-for the foreseeable future. We suspect that there will be some solution before school starts. Up in the air is mail delivery. The non-readers are still scooting past until they come to the barriers. Then back they come. The road closed signs extend for 10 miles. Kind of makes you wonder. Thayne came to check fences in the dusk yesterday- lots of damage. But we are loving it. There is very little traffic on the road and the quiet is a balm. We may be the only ones rejoicing and that may be short-lived as the reality of major detours in our habits sets in.
The Governor declared a disaster. 100 National Guards have been sent. Multiple bridges are out. This has been a record breaker with the rivers being nine feet over flood level. The waters are receding fast but we have the mixed bag of cool temperatures- a good thing when it comes to snow melt, but two days of rain forecasted, more snow in the mountains. It will be interesting to see if the "government haters" forego the benefits of disaster relief consistent with their rhetoric.
I am a big mystery fan. And I like vintage mysteries. Dorothy Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey series got me started years ago. There are freebies for the Kindle or Kindle for PC, as well as a lot of "99 centers." I downloaded some "Raffles" stories. Raffles was a thief by night, star cricket player by day. The author was married to the sister of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame. Raffles was sort of a lighthearted rascal alter-ego of Sherlock Holmes and was wildly popular. The stories are ingenious but to my ear are "gayer than gay." "Bunny", the sidekick, is the narrator. He "flounces" out of bed, is seriously devoted to Raffles though they don't live together until late in life, and they go around London "arm-in arm." He is also a little "thick," not very quick on the uptake. I don't know if these are Edwardian conventions or a hidden message but they add a layer of humor to the stories. In the interest of full disclosure I have joined Amazon Associates which will pay me 4% if anybody orders through a blog ad. I am not expecting much and fully intend to be occasionally ironic in product placement- hence the rubber raft ad in the flood entry.
