New Year, Old Weather Pattern

Today the Wind came back.  It's a formidable wind out of the northeastthat beats that against the flank of Mauna Loa like a flail from 9 am until 4 pm, approximately.  It had stopped for a couple of weeks, for Christmas and New Years days, when it rained gloriously and gently on the wind-whipped land and green sprouts sprang up everywhere.  It is such a pleasure to be inconvenienced by rain: to have to run my back-up generator because the batteries on my solar-system run dow, to have to remember to roll up the truck windows, to have to wear rubber boots in the morning, and get splattered by mud in the corrals, to find out where the roof leaks, and where the road is pothole-d.  All of those little inconvenieces are a welcome change from the constant, gut-churning fear of running out of feed and water for the cattle.  I hope the Wind does not stay long.  I have hopes that 2013 will be a kinder year.