Post by Lannie on May 19, 2008 17:31:38 GMT -5
OK, yes, I was complaining about the weather last week (cold, very windy, spitting rain, etc.) and how we never have "Spring" here, just winter and summer. So Rich made me a cartoon! LOL! Sometimes when I ask a question about something on another forum, I get answers that could never work here, like "put cardboard down as mulch." Um, right, and how would I keep in ON the ground in a 50 mph wind? In case you think I jest, it's blowing about 40 mph outside right now with gusts up to 50. We went to town earlier and while we were sitting in the car a gust of wind hit the car so hard it felt like another car had bumped us. We both turned around quick to look, but no one was there.
I was putting some bark mulch on the flowerbeds in front of the house this afternoon, and it's all in 50 pound feed bags. I was dumping bark mulch out of the bags and the wind was taking some of it before it hit the ground, so there's bark chips all over the yard now. When I set the half empty bag down at one point, it started sliding and rolling away from me, so I had to go catch it and hold onto it with one hand and spread the mulch with the other. Sometimes, like today, it makes me mad enough to say bad words.
My mom thinks I complain too much about the wind, but she lives in Portland, Oregon (where I was born and raised) and I can tell you for a fact that a 20 mph wind there is a "storm." Pffftttthhhh!! When it's blowing 20 here, I consider it to be "calm!" LOL! I have learned a thing or two about wind since moving to the open prairie...
Anyway, the cartoon -
Rich used to be a meteorologist when he was in the Air Force, and he's never quite been able to shake the weatherman in him, thus the map. But I think his little thunderstorm is cute! We live about where the yellow star is on the map.
~Lannie
I was putting some bark mulch on the flowerbeds in front of the house this afternoon, and it's all in 50 pound feed bags. I was dumping bark mulch out of the bags and the wind was taking some of it before it hit the ground, so there's bark chips all over the yard now. When I set the half empty bag down at one point, it started sliding and rolling away from me, so I had to go catch it and hold onto it with one hand and spread the mulch with the other. Sometimes, like today, it makes me mad enough to say bad words.
My mom thinks I complain too much about the wind, but she lives in Portland, Oregon (where I was born and raised) and I can tell you for a fact that a 20 mph wind there is a "storm." Pffftttthhhh!! When it's blowing 20 here, I consider it to be "calm!" LOL! I have learned a thing or two about wind since moving to the open prairie...
Anyway, the cartoon -
Rich used to be a meteorologist when he was in the Air Force, and he's never quite been able to shake the weatherman in him, thus the map. But I think his little thunderstorm is cute! We live about where the yellow star is on the map.
~Lannie
