It's Windy!!!!

We sit on the western side of the bowl that is the Pahrump Valley about 3 miles from the base of the western edge Mts.  Our home faces south.  Just SW of the house is a low section of the Mts. and the wind comes screeching into the valley through this low spot.  We're directly in it's path.  This is the weather that has come from So. Cal. and is moving east picking up speed across the CA desert, then funnelling through to our valley at full force.

The winds started yesterday afternoon.  We went to the store about 4PM and there was a touch of breeze when we left as well as when we got into the car to return home, but nothing of any consequence whatsoever.  By the time we got home, the car was being pitched, tossed and thrown all over the road for the last couple of miles.  When I opened my car door at home, the door was ripped out of my hand and flung wide open.  I was worried it would damage the door hinge!  Wow!  Taking the bags of groceries out of the car with one of us holding the liftgate so it wouldn't fly up and get blown off the car was a real feat.

We had made sure than anything that was loose on the property was secured or removed before the wind hit, so we're starting to learn what a wind forecast really means for us.  After the last wind, we are the new proud owners of a free-standing basketball hoop, a 5-gallon bucket and a boot.  No one had come to claim them yet, so the bucket went into our enclosed dog yard, the boot went in the garbage and we moved the basketball hoop to the empty acre to next door hoping whoever owns it would see it there and take it home before it could blow back onto our property.  So far, it's still on the empty property next door.

Still have some good gusts blowing this morning.  The dogs don't like it much and only want to be out just long enough to do the deed then they're at the sliding glass door looking pathetic with hair blowing straight out in one direction.   We keep expecting a wind gust to pick Ladybug up and plaster her to the fence!  Can't say that I blame them for not wanting to be out there......