Standing at the top of a 20’ aluminum ladder is not the place you want to be when you hear a clap of thunder overhead. I was on terra firma by the time the hail started, followed promptly by rain and then heavy rain. I hid in the van until the worst of it passed, but that thunder clap signalled the end of our heat wave and the arrival of a cooler front.It doesn’t take much rain to soften the ground here. In no time your boots are covered with a sticky mud affectionately known as Alberta Gumbo. It fills your wheel wells like road slush and the dirt roads get so slick the truckers put on chains. A little taste of winter in the middle of summer.
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