Snow Lore

[Jilly]

It's August and all those snow lore/myths should be starting to show up. So how are your woolly caterpillars, mountain ash berries etc?

I pass 2 mountain ash trees on the way to and from work. They are just loaded with fruit! More snow this coming season? How about too much water in May.

What other signs of the a good snow season are you looking at?

 

[graham418]

I look for tractor-trailer loads of SkiDoo's driving westbound down the 401. Sure sign winter is coming. The more loads I see, the better the winter....I'm not really sure if there is a correlation, but the marketers at BRP must know something

(when I see the SeaDoo's, its a sure sign of Spring)

 

[Jerez]

fat and fluffy-tailed squirrels.

 

[David Chaus]

I have a mountain ash right next to the house. The berries finally got bright red a couple weeks ago and the tree is loaded with fruit. But they do that every year, so I don't know if that means it'll be a good year for snow.

FWIW I got a lot of cherries this year, the plums are typically abundant but not record-breaking, some of the apples, pears and asian pears are loaded with fruit, a couple of apples and pears not so much. Actually the Asian pears are rediculous, I've had to so some thinning to keep some branches from breaking.

Lots of bunnies, which my dog is busy chasing down. I know she caught at least one. If only she could do something about the moles.....

It's really hard to think about winter right now. We are in the middle of a heat wave, temperatures in the upper 80's and low 90's for a few days and the only reason it's not hotter is because a lot of smoke drifted down from wildfires in BC. Weird to have smokey, hazy skies in the PNW.

 

[Philpug]

I find the bourbon bottle empties a little quicker this time on year.

 

[Crank]

I find the bourbon bottle empties a little quicker this time on year.

Naw...still working on the gin bottles. winter ain't coming until I get me another bottle of Woodford Reserve.

 

[Bad Bob]

Use the traditional indian approach.
The more white guys you see cutting firewood for their fireplaces the harder the impending winter.

 

[Jilly]

I look for tractor-trailer loads of SkiDoo's driving westbound down the 401. Sure sign winter is coming. The more loads I see, the better the winter....I'm not really sure if there is a correlation, but the marketers at BRP must know something

(when I see the SeaDoo's, its a sure sign of Spring)

That is so true. Lucky for me, not too much time on the 401 this summer.

Use the traditional indian approach.
The more white guys you see cutting firewood for their fireplaces the harder the impending winter.

Or they live in Ontario with our lovely high electricity rates!!

 

[Posaune]

I've got my cabin's woodshed jammed with dry wood, so bring it on. I've also been honking regularly in the tunnel at Money Creek on US 2 near Skykomish which is rumored to be a way to be obsequious to Ullr. I'm getting tired of warm weather.

 

[Bad Bob]

I've got my cabin's woodshed jammed with dry wood, so bring it on. I've also been honking regularly in the tunnel at Money Creek on US 2 near Skykomish which is rumored to be a way to be obsequious to Ullr. I'm getting tired of warm weather.

Money Creek Tunnel always works sometimes.

 

[Jilly]

That's like my old ski club.....we always had a corn roast the first Saturday in September. We always sacrificed a pair of skis to Ullr in the bonfire.