That'll Do

As I am typing this, it is 28 Degrees outside, and the wind is blowing 22 MPH. If you factor for wind chill, it is 14 Degrees outside. That means that it is 20 Degrees warmer than it was this same time last week. I celebrate the small victories.

I usually post new stuff of Sundays, because that is when I have the time. Today I felt like adding something because it has been on my mind. Working with the public I hear: "Is it cold/windy enough for ya?" "Don't like the weather wait ten minutes, it'll change" "It's always windy in Wyoming." I know that this is just people being friendly and making conversation, and on an individual basis, I appreciate it. When you've heard it all day long, eventually you start to analyze it. Not the people saying it, (that is for a different day) but what they are saying.

I can spot a someone foreign to Wyoming pretty easily these days. Half of the time, I don't even need to hear them talk. It's not so much that people not from here stick out; it's that people who are from here or have chosen to be from here have a way about them. It's something you can really understand on a night like this. People who have made this their home can go about their business in this weather untroubled by it. The face right into it and do what they set out to do. There is a set to their shoulders that neither leans into the wind, nor cowers away from it.

This fascinates me, and it is the greatest thing living here has taught me. You can still go about your life with the hounds of hell nipping at your heels. Put on some decent foul weather gear, and you can do it happily. You'll do, and your persistence will be rewarded with heartbreakingly beautiful summer days.