What's your wooly caterpillar forecast? - Page 5

Speckly, I'm seeing folks in your area talking about the persimmons forecasting a similar winter. Get you woodpile stocked and runs covered with plastic. We go around town and take all the bagged leaves for wind barriers and with every snow, dump a bag on top so they can walk around on it and scratch for goodies. This also makes for a significantly better Spring run because the layers of leaves and poo break down nicely instead of it being a thawed, frozen poop soggy bog.

I'm getting well prepared here. Don't want to have to struggle to keep up like last winter. I'll have it all ready if I just get another 30 or so bags of leaves...and after this cold snap, I should be able to do that Saturday when it's 60 out and everyone rakes what dropped off the trees yesterday.

Is there a legend for predictions based on tree colors? Gotta find that superstition...

I have been seeing a lot of those this year, well every year. And they are always banded types, and they bite!
One of them had gotten in my boot this morning, and I did not know until I had felt an inch on my foot while I was milking cows at 5 am at a farm where I work. I had thought that it was just a sliver in my sock scratching my foot, and felt something sliding between my toes, again I thought it was just a stick or something that had fallen in my boot through the hole in my sock. Finally that inch was bugging me very bad that I threw the boot off, and scratch that inch, and felt something under my toes, something soft and fuzzing. My first thought was some lint, but when I reached to get it out, I felt slime, and pulled out a flatted banded wooly bear with its guts oozing out. Grabbed a udder rag and cleaned my toes as fast as I could.