We’ve
had some wind these past four to five
days.
Hurricane
force winds; leaving me feeling a lot like Dorothy—or Toto.
Around
midnight, I heard what sounded like Santa’s sleigh dragging across the roof.
This
morning we found a 12” x 10” jagged piece of shingle on the lawn.
It looks a lot like our shingles but we didn't see any torn or missing shingles; then again we can’t see the very tippy top of
the roof.
Then again, it could have blown all the way across town from someone else's house!
The
teenager said he couldn’t sleep last night.
He
worried the house was going to be torn asunder.
Can’t
blame him…I’ve had the same feeling, everyday, since the winds picked up last
Friday.
Saturday
evening we went to hear Ira Glass (of 'This American Life' fame).
As
we walked across campus, an icy blast turned everything into a sheet of ice.
Yesterday,
as the gales were still gusting upwards of 50 + mph, I stepped into Safeway.
This
had blown in before me…
and
was slowly tumbling down the baking aisle, checking out the sea salts.
I’ve posted on a previous occasion that before moving to Laramie, my belief was that tumbleweeds "were just movie props."
Now
I know better.