By joenesgarden, 8 months and 20 days ago

Acorns a fallin’

acorns-2 11-2009 November12, 2009.  They're falling around me as I walk outside, they land on my car as I drive, they cover my lawn and gardens. and I've used a shovel to scoop up raked piles and toss them into the woods.  I'm not the first, and likely not the last, to remark on the copious acorn crop this year.  If you follow weather lore, a heavy crop of berries and acorns forebodes a severe winter, and many acorns on the ground on September 29th foretells snow cover on Christmas.  It seems to me that acorns started falling in early September and they haven't stopped yet.  Get your shovel muscles ready - first for scooping piles of acorns to toss into the woods, then for managing piles of snow.

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