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Look at the Wooly Worm I found! Long winter or short?
Mother Nature

Posted on 11/04/2001 5:23:53 PM PST by lawgirl

Yesterday I was cleaning my house, and I went to pick up what I thought was a piece of cardboard box. It was a wooly worm!! (An inch-long caterpillar that looks and feels like a thick pipe cleaner and appears in the autumn.) After screaming, dropping him and probably scaring him half to death, I called my husband to come and pick him up (hehe). Anyway, we both noticed what huge brown stripe he had on his back. Growing up in Iowa, I remember there was an old Indian's tale about being able to predict what the winter was going to be like by how thick the brown stripe was on the back of the wooly worm, but I can't remember how it goes. Does a thick stripe mean a long winter or a mild one??? I would love it if someone could "read the wooly worm" and tell me which way it is! Anyway, here is a photo of him- isn't he cute?



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To: Theresa
Hmmmm...I guess I'm truly vexed.

Our house is being totally over-run with woolyworms, and scorpions.

I've never seen anything like this before.

41 posted on 11/04/2001 7:19:45 PM PST by Dallas
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To: Pokey78
I thought this was a wooly worm:

No, that's a shaggy WORM!

42 posted on 11/04/2001 7:33:23 PM PST by Jolly Green
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To: lawgirl
Fred is ascared of the wooly worm!

Your kitty is a real cutie!

43 posted on 11/04/2001 7:38:26 PM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: error99
Behave yourself! ;-)
44 posted on 11/04/2001 7:39:03 PM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights; Snow Bunny
"Sleeping In The Moonlight Can Cause Insanity"

Oh, thank you for that. I FINALLY know what's wrong with me and what caused it.

45 posted on 11/04/2001 7:41:00 PM PST by JudyB1938
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To: Texaggie79
Do you like cheese?

Cheese?! Did somebody say, "CHEESE"????? rofl

46 posted on 11/04/2001 7:42:41 PM PST by Wake up and smell the cheese
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To: BigWaveBetty
ACK! Fred!! Fred wants to eat Ted!
47 posted on 11/04/2001 7:46:01 PM PST by lawgirl
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To: BigWaveBetty
Why, madam, I'm certain that you must have taken what I said the wrong way...
(wink)
48 posted on 11/04/2001 7:46:15 PM PST by error99
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To: BigWaveBetty
That critter in post 43 looks like it's about to
take a big bite out of whatever gets close enough.
49 posted on 11/04/2001 7:47:55 PM PST by error99
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To: BigWaveBetty
Now I was wondering.... In that picture of your cat... if you were to zoom out... would we see Hillary Clinton reaching to pet the cat? rofl
50 posted on 11/04/2001 7:50:29 PM PST by Wake up and smell the cheese
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To: Pokey78
The picture of Al Gore with beard. That is not a Wooly Worm, but A WOOLY BULLY!!
51 posted on 11/04/2001 7:51:46 PM PST by wlj1
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To: BigWaveBetty
You been scaring Fred with Hillary's picture again? STOP THAT! You're gonna make him foolish.
52 posted on 11/04/2001 7:52:07 PM PST by Commonsense
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To: Theresa
We live in South Texas... and scorpions have to be the CREEPIEST insect/bug out here. YUCK... my husband and I both were stung by one in our bed...

And our carpet is the exact same color as the little varmints... I CANNOT stand them!! The dogs seem perplexed by them, tho' not scared...

53 posted on 11/04/2001 7:53:32 PM PST by TexanMom
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To: Wake up and smell the cheese
Cheese?! Did somebody say, "CHEESE"????? rofl

All right, would someone put up this newbie disrupter's "member since" info please?

54 posted on 11/04/2001 7:54:06 PM PST by LJLucido
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To: lawgirl
Wow. I've never seen a wooly worm that fat and furry before. My husband and I saw one up in Shenandoah National Park who looked pretty plump and joked that a hard winter was coming but he/she wasn't nearly as big as yours.
55 posted on 11/04/2001 7:54:16 PM PST by thathamiltonwoman
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To: Commonsense
You been scaring Fred with Hillary's picture again?

Rofl! We think alike! See reply #50

56 posted on 11/04/2001 7:54:32 PM PST by Wake up and smell the cheese
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To: Wake up and smell the cheese
you new to FR or a just a new ver of a former FReeper?
57 posted on 11/04/2001 7:55:53 PM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Wake up and smell the cheese
No, not mine (thank goodness!) he's kind of our mascot at the guild. Props to CheneyChick! But you're right, either hilly's reaching out to pet him or something equally disturbing! Read the story, it's a hoot!
58 posted on 11/04/2001 7:56:02 PM PST by BigWaveBetty
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To: LJLucido
Now! Now! I'm not a newbie! lmao... I just like these "cheese" threads... so I changed my screen name. I'm an oldie. He,he,he!
59 posted on 11/04/2001 7:56:18 PM PST by Wake up and smell the cheese
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To: Texaggie79
you new to FR or a just a new ver of a former FReeper?

See reply #59

60 posted on 11/04/2001 7:57:45 PM PST by Wake up and smell the cheese
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