February 9th, 2010

February 9, 2010, 10pm: This is the night of the anniversary of our bringing Windchill to Raindance. I was talking to Grama Carole and Paula this evening and we talked about this day. For myself, the feelings grow as the time approaches and then I remember – I remember dragging Windchill across a pasture, I remember how hard it was to breathe in that bitter cold… I thought about what to write and realized it’s already been written. I also realized that on the official Windchill site, pieces of the original story are missing – there was a lot to transfer in all the blogs. So I decided how to honor Windchill’s story. On the Raindance blog site, over the course of the next 20 days I will be posting the story – EXACTLY as it occurred during the 20 days with Windchill. It will be programmed to appear on the blog at the exact same time and day that the original blogs appeared. I time dated the blogs as most of you know making re-creation fairly easy. Some of the blogs weren’t time dated – they were explanations, feelings, in some cases justifications – like the reason “why”. I had forgotten about having to write “why.” I block much of the memories because to go back opens it all in a torrent of feelings. Exhaustion. Pain. Worry. Cold. Bitter, bitter cold. Weariness from a 20 hour a day schedule – we divided the night in half, Kathi taking the first 4 hour sleep shift, and I got the next 4 hour shift. So over the next 20 days I will be posting the blogs. Keep in mind the official blog I started didn’t start February 9th – it started between the 12th and 13th of February, 2008 at the request of the newspaper who was being bombarded with phone calls. Due to the volume they asked if they could set a blog for me to post updates and I didn’t want to to learn some new software so said I would blog but do it on this website. So over the next 20 days the Windchill story unfolds, just as it did in 2008.