How The Wind Blows

 We've had several windy days at this little place here in the past week. An entire day and night of prolonged 30+ mph wind with frequent gusts around 60 mph.  A day or two of calm, then more wind of 20+ mph with 40+mph gusts.  Honestly, at this point, I'm rather tired of hearing the wind blow.

I do have to be grateful that we've had no loss of trees, or even limbs from trees, and none of the buildings have sustained damage.  The cones in my 'arena' behind the barn keep getting blown over like some odd giant bowling game, but the roofing and siding of the barn are undisturbed.

bowling overnight

bowling during the (scattered snow showery) day

The hay elevator, with three cinderblocks stored in it to weigh down the tongue end, was played with like a teeter-totter by the wind, and the (heavier) tongue end is now the end up in the air.  

Definitely not the end that's supposed to be up!

Even my mounting block, which has stood in place unaffected by wind for about two years now, was moved.  A gust must have went in the open front part and lifted it enough that it rotated about 45 degrees, as you can see from the lines in the grass.  The lines are where it's been standing for quite some time.

A close up to better see the lines from where it stood before.

The LBM wears a long mane, and during turnout it got whipped and tangled into several witches knots.  I spent close to 45 minutes untangling and combing it out, then made many braids in it to keep that from happening again in the next predicted round of strong winds (which happened a few days later).  

All this and March, which is typically a windy month, is only half over!