Park Facing the Wind in Livingston Winter
One can tell a Livingston winter rookie by how they park at the gas station during a typically windy day. Always park facing the wind! If you park going-with-the wind as soon as the door gets a half inch unlatched there she goes. That door will get grabbed out of your driving fingers and hopefully not bang into into anything fragile or dent-able. Also make sure you’re standing upwind of the gas nozzle so that when you go to put it back on the hook you don’t get those last little drips all over your pants, shoes and coat. One more thing, please don’t pop the hood when you are parked facing the wind, that hood is a great sail.
Oh well, it’s the price we pay for living so close to our area’s best fishing spots. Plus our grocery stores are less crowded on account of the wind and everyone always has at least one topic for small talk. The last few days have been really windy here in Livingston. Nothing unusual about that statement but one does forget about the unusual persistence of our fall, winter, and spring wind. Here is a photo of a brown caught on a non-windy day on the least crowded river in Montana. A special place called, um…