Old Wives' Tales

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Animals putting on heavier fur means a bad winter coming.

[DockShootinJack]

Heavy crop of acorns means a long cold winter

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Windy days when the leaves turn over and you can see the backs of them rains a coming....

[CrappiePappy]

Windy days when the leaves turn over and you can see the backs of them rains a coming....

And when you hear a Dove hooo hoooing it means rain is on the way. (my Grampa used to call them "Rain Crows")

[DockShootinJack]

Windy days when the leaves turn over and you can see the backs of them rains a coming....

We had a silver maple in the yard. Mom would tell us it was going to rain when the leaves would turn backwards

[DockShootinJack]

And when you hear a Dove hooo hoooing it means rain is on the way. (my Grampa used to call them "Rain Crows")

Birds on the power lines means it will rain all day.

[DockShootinJack]

The higher the clouds the better the weather

A cloudless sky means it will cool off fast after the sun goes down

[DockShootinJack]

Smoke coming out of the chimney and dipping back to the ground means a storm is on it's way. Smoke that goes up means good weather

[DockShootinJack]

Ring around the moon, rain or snow in the next three days.

[DockShootinJack]

The earth and flowers smell strongest just before showers.