If the tradition of the wooly worm is correct, we are in for a hard winter based on this one observation. I found this little guy outside this weekend. The tradition says that the black represents periods of hard winter and the rust color represents mild winter periods. All black sounds pretty rough to me! I love to pick up wooly worms and watch them curl in my hand. The kids are pretty shaky on bugs and critters so they don’t often touch them. The poor things, they don’t know what they are missing. Fortunately, they do fully understand how to “get a good dirt on”. We’ll have to work on bugs I guess. Maybe we can ponder them around the fire this winter…
Oh, this is ever so timely. There’s quite a discussion in the comments section of this blog post, if you’re interested: http://outwithari.blogspot.com/2008/09/high-66-f-low-47-f-conditions-mostly.html
Hilarious!
Oh….one more thing…your blog post is referenced in the very last comment 🙂 (which is how I found you)
Thanks! I just posted over there too! What a funny post!
I don’t want to hear hard winter – we had a bad one last winter (lots of ice and cold) so that’s not sounding too good. Guess I’d better tell me kids to start looking for wooly bear worms..
Kris
Yes, Kris, please prove me wrong…please!