Monday Meandering - 8.26.2019

If the old almanac observation about judging the depth of the coming winter by observing how the critters pack on the fat during the Fall is to be believed, we are in for a hard winter.

The pecan crop around here seems to follow a bi-annual pattern - good year, then lean year. This will be a lean year. Not that many pecans to begin with, and certainly not after the squirrels get through. The entire pecan crop seems to lying in fragments on outr driveway and front walk.

From early morning to late evening, the resident squirrels gnaw the still-green pecans into fragments and discard the detritus on the ground, where it remains to be crunched beneath our car wheels as we come and go.

The yard guys come and blow the fragments away periodically, but I think the squirrels just consider this a challenge to recover the driveway as quickly as possible, which is pretty darn quick.