1. My company from Texas has H1N1. Poor thing. So I have a "company's coming" clean house with no company coming. Major free time!
2. My mom's village is having a chili cook-off this weekend. She'd originally asked me to make a chili but I declined as Robbin was going to be here. Now that she's not I might do one.
3. I think I'm going to get Rob to go to the Haunted Castle in Muskogee this weekend if it's not raining. I haven't been on a haunted hay-ride in years.
4. I bought Daughtry tickets. Woooo
5. Need to finish organizing garage, but.... if it's pretty I'm going to capitalize on outside funtime as I think this winter is going to be icky.
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1. I'll be right over!
2. Our church is having a chili cookoff Oct 30th, along with a trunk or treat. I'm not sure if I want to enter my chili, but I'm dressing up in a Hairspray costume, and naturally will take pics.
3. I'm not much for haunted anything, but you go and have fun without me.
4. Yay for Daughtry. My DH would even like to see that.
5. Winter is going to vary from really cold at first to milder weather near the end. I got this info from a wooly bully, and he would not lie to me!
Today's weather is beautiful, so DH is painting outside window frames.
5. Well, my persimmon seed says lots of snow and ice. I say we have a wooly bully (ummm, what exactly is that?) and a persimmon seed show down. Not to be confused with a wooly bully/persimmon seed hoe-down!
The wooly bully is a fuzzy caterpillar that shows itself in the fall. I have seen them in various colors. If their coat is black, the winter will be very cold.
From another blog:
"Everyone’s heard of wooly worms, also spelled “woolly.” In some locales they’re called wooly bears. According to legend, wooly worms portend the severity of the approaching winter. Supposedly the wider the orange middle band, the less severe the winter. Some take it further. The wooly worm caterpillar is comprised of thirteen segments, and each black segment is taken to represent a week of winter weather, in this case, up to thirteen weeks of winter weather if the entire worm is black! Brrrrrr!"
I've always called them Wooly Bullies.
The worm I saw was black for about 5 segments, and then brown for the rest. I've never heard about persimmon seeds. Do tell.
I love a clean house with nobody there to mess it up!!!!
I've also been yearning for a haunted house/hayride/something this year. Chris has zero interest. Too bad I wasn't closer to you!
Great weekend for chili!
Oh, you should make a batch of pretzels this weekend since you aren't having company. :-)
SG - this is taken from another blog as well -
For the forecast, you need ten persimmon seeds. The amount of seeds per fruit varies, so you may need from three to several persimmons, depending on the fruit. You want to have a sharp knife and a pair of pliers. You’ll use the pliers to hold the seed, which can be very slick even after washing. Place your seeds, one at a time into the pliers, narrow side up. then cut in half. This will expose the seed kernel. The white kernel may have one of three shapes. It may look more like a spoon or shovel, like a fork with two tines, or like a knife. cut all ten seeds and keep track of how many kernels of each shape you get.
Here’s how to interperet:
Spoons – Heavy wet snow, ice or rain.
Knives – Bitter Cold.
Forks – Light fluffy snow, milder weather.
This years Forecast for Oklahoma:
Seven Spoons, Three knives. Looks like it could be a messy cold winter here in Ok.
Last year’s forecast: Seven spoons,two knives, and a fork. That was the year of the devastating ice storm that took power from about a third of the state and caused extensive damage to homes and properties.
I don't use a pliers and knife - I simple split them with my teeth. That blogger's a sissy. *grin
Kim - if you'll bring pretzels I'll take you on a hayride!
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