Prepare thy wood. A tough one coming

Todd Lots of acorns dropping in my woods as well. Last year there weren't many acorns.

 

I don't have any wood; well, I have one stack that is properly cured. The rest of the wood is green. Yes, I know the rules.

 

Just brought up a small amount of wood to the house. Chilly temps in the forecast for Friday and Saturday mornings. I'm thinking a small fire each morning, will feel nice.

Close the windows, you say? Surely, you're not serious..

 

Squirrels have been really busy around here lately too...

 

They are leaving beechnut husks all over my patio.

 

Don't care about the back yard, I just care about where I have to sweep.

 

& Now
the "Science " of it:


Woolly bear "Myth or Fact"



Between 1948 and 1956, Dr. Curran’s average brown-segment counts ranged from 5.3 to 5.6 out of the 13-segment total, meaning that the brown band took up more than a good third of the woolly bear’s body. The corresponding winters were milder than average, and Dr. Curran concluded that the folklore has some merit and might be true.

But Curran was under no scientific illusion: He knew that his data samples were small. Although the experiments legitimized folklore to some, they were simply an excuse for having fun. Curran, his wife, and their group of friends escaped the city to see the foliage each fall, calling themselves The Original Society of the Friends of the Woolly Bear.

Thirty years after the last meeting of Curran’s society, the woolly bear brown-segment counts and winter forecasts were resurrected by the nature museum at

 

Poor old squirrels. I feed them sunflower seeds in the winter. One year, when I was in Florida, my husband filled up the woodstove, and heard something fall down the stovepipe. He looked inside, banged on the pipe, didn't see anything, so he put a match to the fire and left the door cracked. 10 seconds later, he heard something scratching the door. Opened the door, and a squirrel came screaming out, its tail on fire. It hid in the basement for a couple days, finally he left the bulkhead open and it got out. We saw it around the yard after that, with a completely bald tail. We called him Crispy.

 

I got it. This time anyway.

 

no acorns here
as the trees just didn't have the energy what with the caterpillars devastating them .
There are some acorns on the red oaks starting for next year though.


I tend to plan for a cold hard snowy Winter and hope it doesn't happen.

 

Agreed. Low acorn year here as well, due to the darn gypsy moth caterpillars back in the spring. I'm hoping for a wet fall to help the trees through winter.

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I'll wait to see what the forecasters say as to what kind of a winter we'll get.

The farmers almanac type forecasts are less accurate than the meteorologist's forecasts.

 

no gypsy moth's here this year, and very few acorns. Tons of acorns last year though.

 

They tend to have off years. Like fruit trees will produce more in certain years...a cycle, I guess.