Old Sayings

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With winter settling in I go back to the old wives tales my Granny used to tell me. My kids found a woolyworm the other day. Granny used to say the wider the black band on the woolyworm the harsher the winter... by this pic,
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we are in for a long cold winter. What superstitions or wives tales (Old Sayings) can you share with us?

~Mary

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My grandpa had bunches of 'old sayings' but the two that stuck with me, and have proven to be fairly true, are:
"You won't get much rain when the sliver of the moon looks like a bowl. You'll get more rain when the sliver of the moon is tilted so the rain can spill out."
"You're going to have a longer winter when the pine trees have more cones on them in the fall. Less new pinecones, shorter milder winter."
 
Thank you 3404speed, yes that is a typical " wooly bear or what I call a wooly worm. It is supposed have brown on it. I have seen really bad winters when they have NO brown on them... I'm getting a bigger snow shovel...:angry7:.
 
Wow, you W Virginians are really gonna get more than a snow shovel if that's the case! The woolly bears I've seen this year are less black than orange, so I was hoping for a nice warm, short, winter! Yeah, fat chance!
 
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