Oh dear what a major disaster yesterday turned out to be for our pond new covering when we found the effects of the wind funneled down the side of our house almost took off from the pole after being hit by repeated freak gusts of wind .
I ended up trying to bring the thing in by hand and I admit it now , I panniced for a moment, [instructions forgotten because of the short term memory loss which is part and parcel of my disability] just when I needed them [then did the wrong thing for 5 minutes] before having to grab Val to help me with it .
My muscles have been screaming out in agony since yesterday afternoon"some damaged by numerous operations" the rest by Fibromyalgia [a side effect of these operations] today but at least one thing learned we need a weather station that takes windspeed/direction as well as weather.
The reason our windbreak tree was cut down last year by someone "I cant name names"just out of camera shot.
The result we now need to figure out a way of re-directing the wind by putting in a Garden gate that hopefully will direct the wind away from the parasol.
Plus we can watch the winds speed/direction and note down each days speed and direction to work out a pattern of when and what other directions of wind speed may try to lift the parsol of its pole so that we have a broad idea of when it needs to come down [which if brain works should be a one person job]....
Just to be doubly sure that the wind wond get under the folds of the parasol when stowed I employed a skill learned as a boy sailor aged 13 at Naval Boarding school I've lashed it up like the hammok I had the pleasure of sleeping in for 4 years prior to joining the military .
However I'm kicking myself over this as I thought I'd covered every angle :sad: .
Dave
I ended up trying to bring the thing in by hand and I admit it now , I panniced for a moment, [instructions forgotten because of the short term memory loss which is part and parcel of my disability] just when I needed them [then did the wrong thing for 5 minutes] before having to grab Val to help me with it .
My muscles have been screaming out in agony since yesterday afternoon"some damaged by numerous operations" the rest by Fibromyalgia [a side effect of these operations] today but at least one thing learned we need a weather station that takes windspeed/direction as well as weather.
The reason our windbreak tree was cut down last year by someone "I cant name names"just out of camera shot.
The result we now need to figure out a way of re-directing the wind by putting in a Garden gate that hopefully will direct the wind away from the parasol.
Plus we can watch the winds speed/direction and note down each days speed and direction to work out a pattern of when and what other directions of wind speed may try to lift the parsol of its pole so that we have a broad idea of when it needs to come down [which if brain works should be a one person job]....
Just to be doubly sure that the wind wond get under the folds of the parasol when stowed I employed a skill learned as a boy sailor aged 13 at Naval Boarding school I've lashed it up like the hammok I had the pleasure of sleeping in for 4 years prior to joining the military .
However I'm kicking myself over this as I thought I'd covered every angle :sad: .
Dave
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