Its Always Something!

We are having a character building year here at Wicked Raven!  Our weather has been so wonky this winter that I am unsure what I will have left come summer!  I wrote in an earlier blog about the rain in January and I also wrote about waiting for results in another (I probably need some cheese with my whine lately) but now we had the week from h e  double hockey sticks - actually two weeks of utter chaos and craziness!

Reed (the 13 year old) had a freak fall in the locker room and broke his elbow.  This is a kid who falls on ice on a regular basis and gets hit by other big guys on the ice at high speeds and has never had anything broken that way.  But fall in the locker rom with no gear on and he shatters his elbow! (after surgery the doc showed us the x-rays and it was in pieces)!  As we were heading to the hospital for the surgery to fix the elbow the wind was blowing so hard that it was picking up pea gravel sized rocks and hurling them like hail stones against the windshield of the car!  We haven't had any snow and the whole cage/wire/mulch system that I had on the grapes vines is gone!  I will have to go out and formulate something else and see if I can save them. The wind is still blowing here (started up in the middle of the night again).

Alaska doesn't name its storms like the lower 48 does.  If the wind blows - even 73 miles per hour(which it did) - it still is just called Wind!  So actually every storm we have ever had has just been named after what it produced the most of - Snow, Rain, Wind Sleet!  We never get a cool hurricane name for them.  We have been having facebook discussions about how we should all get together and name the storms!

Sleeping overnight in the hospital was hard because the wind could be heard through the windows and it was a little chilly and it really is true that they wake you up all the time to "help" you.  The wind picked up sand from a hillside nearby the hospital and blew it right across the roof into the windows of the room!  That is a spooky sound when you are hearing all kids of noise you aren't used to.  And Reed really struggled to get comfortable no matter how we adjusted the bed.  As hospital experiences go we had a wonderful one - I cant complain about any of the treatment or service we got - just that we had to be there in the first place!

So not only did we do some more waiting for results this last week - we had more Wonky Weather!  And as we get closer to spring we will do more waiting for results as we await the new growth or lack thereof on the farm!  Ill keep you posted, in the meantime... I hope your waiting is only for good things, and that your weather is all sunshine to make roses!