But last night the bedroom bucked and whirled like a rodeo bull. Then I woke up this morning with a big head like a split watermelon. Felt a little like those long ago days when I thought I had to keep up with the boys in all things possible and impossible...
It was, and still is, that windy. I came in from late night walkies with Mack and said, "It's so windy there are waves on the puddles..."
To which Liz replied, "Whitecaps, Mom, whitecaps."
And so they were.
After two warm days, one of them featuring all-day relentless rain, almost every vestige of a whole winter's snow was gone and racing downhill to the river. There was thunder. Lightning too.
And then came the wind.
We never lost power, as thousands did in the area, but we sure lost sleep. I feel as if I had a big night last night, a really, really big night, and I am real sorry for Ralph.
With all that snow melt and heavy rain, our driveway is pretty much gone. I think it is the worst it has been in several years. A real shame, since he has kept it in great shape all winter. He will be out on the skid steer for hours for sure...unless of course it has frozen too solid to move, in which case our poor cars will take a beating until it thaws and dries out.
Given a choice of weather or not, I would certainly take not, at least in this instance.
Ugh sounds horrible! I used to get bad weather headaches when I lived in Alberta. March is such a psychotic month.
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Shirley, I think it was lack of sleep. The wind woke us up every few minutes all night long. I am not exaggerating a bit about the room moving! Our house is huge and slab-sided to the west wind and it took a pounding. Driveway took about four hours. Ralph is really good at getting it leveled, but the whole bottom was 2 feet deep in gravel that washed down. Unprecedented! Hopefully it will have time to settle in before we get more rain. Most of the snow is gone, and what is left can go off gradually for all of me. Take care
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