The wind started blowing again last night. We have gotten spoiled with a number of warm, sunny, hardly breezy days. But the temperatures are dropping again which makes the wind roar down the canyon from out of the mountain ranges behind us.
The branches are whipping back and forth, sometimes the tree trunks even bend downward. It seems the stream is struggling to keep moving down stream...not UPstream where the wind is pushing it. The little red squirrel I enjoy watching is nowhere to be seen...probably holed up in her nest.
And us? We are hunkered down in our RV. Even with the furnace running and a space heater aimed at us, it still seems chilly. It is hard to focus on anything as the entire RV rocks in the wind, almost jerking with the big gusts.
I walk outside occasionally just to double check the jacks keeping the rear of the trailer level. No, they've not shifted so far...but these gusts make it FEEL like the trailer is moving!
And...all the hard work Jakob and Randy did during the freezing cold a few weeks ago is coming apart. Every so often Jakob has to go out and chase down long styrofoam insulation boards as the wind blows them out from the base of the RV, flips them, and tries to carry them off. Last time out, Jakob stacked all the pieces fully under the trailer, up against the down-wind tires (and only remaining insulation boards still standing), and tried to weight the pieces down with a folded up lawn-chair. Seems to be working for now...
I'm thinking I will buy a few more boards tomorrow. Jakob and I will try to get them all put back up and more thoroughly taped together before the temperatures take a big drop later in the week.
It's frustrating to have to re-do things we thought we had already solved...if we must keep coming up with innovative solutions at least let the problems be NEW ones!!
So...aaarrrgggh! to the wind! Bluuurrrgh to repeated frustrations! I think I'll go looking for chocolate...with that and a lovely, oh-so-soft white blanket to cuddle under I just might get my equilibrium back!
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