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By GERALDS. HAWKINS
Rappmhutnoek New. Contributing Writer
The Hawkridge farmhouse sits halfway down a hillside, facing due west, so when a storm blows in from the Blue Ridge Mountains, the house gets the full force.
But most days, the farm has those fluky winds of the foothills, changing direction at the drop of a hat, contrariwise, and fickle. That is why my wife, Julia, had me put up a weathervane in the hayfield, so that we can tell the direction by looking out of our living room windows.
Over the years we have learned some interesting facts about the wind. It took me quite a while to figure out what goes on in a katabatic wind — the breeze that sneaks down the mountains in the middle of the night. At first we blamed the Swiss manufacturers of the cuckoo clock, because some mornings when we came down into the kitchen we would find it had stopped in the middle of the night, apparently for no reason at all. But there was a reason — a sudden warm gust of wind had parted the curtains at the open window and interfered with the swinging pendulum.
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