Those in agribusiness with thirsty crops, those gardeners with thirsty gardens and those sick of crunchy lawns owe the fair coming to town a big Thank You! The timely rains arrived a little late for some but very very timely for most things. Hopefully our neighbors to the north get enough to put their fires out. There are a lot of us sick of breathing secondhand smoke. They got rid of it in bars and restaurants, but not from forest fires.

We will never know or maybe even want to know, how many millions of board feet of lumber, cords of pulp, and cords of firewood have went up in smoke. Wi...