Wicked, is what it is outside. Sunny and cold with temperatures in the mid 30’s’ the winds are howling at 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 and maybe higher. The winds started last night. I forgot to bring in the small rolling trash cart by the garage door. I heard go crashing down the driveway, even with the rocks on top, about 9:30 pm and had to go out and retrieve it.<\/p>\n
During the night the power must have gone off, a rare occurrence for us, because Colin woke me up when everything started blinking back to life. I reset the alarm clock to stop the blinking\u00a0 and went back to bed.<\/p>\n
This morning there was a scattering of snow on the deck, roof, and natural areas. The mesh cylinder bird feeder was empty where it had blown around. Even though I had added a wire to ground anchor on one side, the other side we anchored to the pole itself, the wire to ground had pulled out. I put it back in the ground once but this afternoon I finally took it down and brought it in to keep it from getting damaged.<\/p>\n
This howling wind situation is to continue through tonight into tomorrow. I am no lightweight and the wind darn near blew me off my feet when I went out to get mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wicked, is what it is outside. Sunny and cold with temperatures in the mid 30’s’ the winds are howling at 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 and maybe higher. The winds started last night. I forgot to … Continue reading