Friends, it is WIN-DY here today. It just started up all of a sudden just before lunch, and it has only gotten more powerful as the day has progressed. My pots of herbs are sideways right now, the hammock in our yard is upside down, and even the heavy wooden benches outside of the chapel have been knocked over. I walked Quincy up to a field hockey game this afternoon and was repeatedly pelted with leaves and acorns, and one of those little helicopter seed pod things hit me in the eye. It's the kind of windy that turns my hair into one big knot.
Wind, of all the weather phenomena out there, is the most unnerving to me. It has no visible source; it's not like you can look at the sky, see some clouds, and say "I bet we'll get some wind later." It just comes out of nowhere. Every time it is this windy (which seems to happen a lot here, as we live on the top of a big old hill), it reminds me that we are basically just sitting on a big rock that is hurtling (albeit purposefully) through space, and for some reason, the wind makes it seem like our planet has sped up on that hurtling path and the wind is actually somewhat akin to the air that rushes through car windows at high speeds. It's all very unsettling and surreal. Strange?
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it was so windy here yesterday (how windy was it?) that our bedroom curtain was sucked out the window. jim went outside to look for it, but the curtain and the rod were gone.
RIP bedroom curtain.
The ROD got lost, too. That's insane!
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