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Fall has fell
grdad45
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It's that time of the year. Even though the temperatures are still around 90 in the afternoon, the big old white oak overhanging the North end of our house is shedding thumb-sized acorns. It sounds like hail hitting the roof! I always gather a couple of 5-gallon bucketfuls to take to my deer stands.
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Still upper 80's here and my acorns (Gambel's oak) are all down.
Low 70's. Overnight down to mid 30's
Fun Fact: Gambel's quail was named for the same person as Gambel's oak tree.
Yet more useless trivia taking up space inside my head. :)
Merc
First juncos in the yard today.
Named after the junk in Merc's head.
..........and it's hotter than H-E-double hockey sticks!!🥵
Yesterday it was 97 degrees.........and they're calling for 99 today.🥵🥵
.........and forecasting 85 for Monday......…...thankfully.😎
Still in the mid-upper 80s here - FAR above normal. However, the winter storm that we usually get the first week of October will hit next week. It'll go from a high of 84 to 49 between Monday and Friday.
And Saturday is the deer opener! I remember one year like this when we set up deer camp on a warm, sunny Friday morning, and by midnight it was snowing sideways.
In my younger days (much younger days) I had several opening days with that sideways snow.
The last time that happened, as I was sitting in my blind with chattering teeth, I realized how stupid I was!!😂
I couldn't see 10 yards, the wind was cutting right through my clothing making me shiver so bad that even if I had seen a deer I was shaking to bad to take an accurate shot.
The real clincher in my decision to beat feet back to my pickemup truck was no deer would be dumb enough to be out in a blizzard. I might be that stupid but deer aren't!!