A Few Words About the Weather

It's hard to describe what it's like to walk in sustained gale force winds. I don't know that I've ever been out in gale force winds - maybe when I was a kid in CT during hurricane season but that would only have been for a few minutes.
This is intense.
Gale force winds:
*would immediately break a kite string
*would immediately rip clothes off a clothesline
*plaster whatever you're wearing to your body and keep it there
*make it necessary to always have a hood up and snapped
*would take off an open car door if the door were left open for more than 10 minutes
*make it impossible to wear a hat without having a hood up and snapped over it
*give you windburn that looks like sunburn
*sometimes feels as though they would knock you over
*make walking a real workout when the winds are headwinds (which they have mostly been)

The good news is that we have exactly the right clothing - long underwear, wind and rain overpants, Goretex jackets - so we are always warm and dry.
More good news is that the rain has been very intermittent so we never did seem to have gale force winds and rain for too long at the same time.
And, when the sun does come out it is thing to behold - the clearest air and the most gorgeous scenery.
It's out now and the picture of Spring outside my B+B window into the garden below is pure beauty.