Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

Those are the two most common hits I get on my blog, other than people looking specifically for me, so I thought I'd just post about them to give the people out there searching one place to land to find out what they want to know.  

After all - this is a full service blog, you know.

Speaking of fractures - the only way to know for sure if you fractured your foot is to seek medical help.  You have to have an X-ray of your foot to know for sure if any bones are broken.

If you have any doubts - go to the doctor and find out for such because you could end up with permanent damage to your foot if you don't.  As for me - when I fractured my foot, I wasn't sure, but it swelled up really big and I knew something was wrong.

In my case, being diabetic for so long, I couldn't really feel anything, but I couldn't take any chances so went immediately (the same day) to the doctor.  It's a good thing I did because there was a break in the top of my foot going out to the second toe on my left foot.  It was severed entirely in half at an angle.

I went into a cast and had to go on crutches and not put any weight at all on it while it healed.   After a week, I got a scooter and stayed on it eight months!!  Stuck at home off my feet and unable to walk at all!! 

Thank goodness I was blogging and had something to do to occupy my time, because I spent all of my time here at my desk in front of my computer.  It was an ordeal, but I survived and have been very careful walking ever since, let me tell you, because I still have no idea how I broke my foot in the first place.

So, go to the doctor!  It's important.

As for wind vanes - a lot of people are looking for the direction of the wind where they live, wanting to know how a wind vane works or looking for pictures of them.  A few want to know how to build one and one person inquired what "west" means on a wind vane!  Duh!

To me all of the above seems simple, except maybe for trying to build a wind vane.   Wind vanes turn with the wind and point toward the direction the wind is blowing, whether toward the north, south, east or west.

I would think they would be rather easy to build, but don't know where you would find instructions to do so and don't have enough interest in it to look it up myself.  As far as I'm concerned, Google can keep sending searchers over here and I can try to make my blog interesting enough that I'll pick up new readers, right?!?

As for pictures of wind vanes, I had kind of a hard time finding one for my blog here.  Tom took some pictures of my wind vane that my dad gave me and lovingly restored while I was out in Abilene with him (I'll have to re-post that story for you, because it is one of my favorite "Wind Vane" stories), but they didn't turn out exactly like what I wanted.

I Googled wind vanes using Google Images and found a good many, but most were in advertisements for companies selling them and, again, not suitable for this prestigious blog. 

The one I finally found and settled on is here on my blog and is the wind vane on the cupola of Mt. Vernon, George Washington's home in Virginia, south of Washington, D. C.  I thought it was perfect and really like it here.  What do you think?

I'll tell you what, though.  Why don't y'all do me (and the inquiring public) a big favor and see if you can find any wind vane pictures, either online or maybe somewhere in your vast collection of photographs, and email them to me at "dee_andrews@bellsouth.net"?!  Okay? 

I'll post some here on my blog so that when people start searching for pictures of them, they can find them here.  In fact, I'll start by posting below some of the pictures of wind vanes that I found when I was searching for a suitable one for Finding Direction, including a bigger photo of the Mt. Vernon wind vane.  I can't find at the moment any of the pictures Tom took of my wind vane, Harvey (another "Wind Vane" story).  But, here goes:

This was as large as I could get the picture without pixeling it, so I decided not to use it.

The next one would fit in with my home state of Texas, but didn't look good with my banner across the top here, so I didn't use it, either.  I needed something more "classy" looking:

As you can see, the picture is rather blurry, too!

Here's a larger Mt. Vernon wind vane, the one I chose:

Okay - now that you've seen the ones I found, see if you can find some and send them to me so I can post them here for passers-by.  In the meantime, while you're hunting wind vane pictures to send me . . .

Have a great and blessed weekend!  Much love, Dee

P. S.  I'm feeling good so far today, so let's pray that continues.  This weekend (Sunday, March 2) happens to be my birthday and 17th wedding anniversary!  So, we're having a "birthday/anniversary" weekend.  I have it marked on my calendar here on my desk.  I'm going to get my hair done in the morning and Tom's taking me out for dinner at a really nice place tomorrow night.  Saturday evening we're getting together with friends on the Mississippi gulf coast for a birthday celebration, because three people among the five couples are having birthdays in the next few days.  Then, Sunday, Tom is taking me out for a champagne brunch at a really nice place.  We decided to do this instead of going somewhere for the weekend.  We like being at home in our new house here out in the woods.

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