Does anyone outside of western North Carolina know what a woolly worm is?
If you do, did you know that they race them? :)
The annual Woolly Worm Festival in Banner Elk, North Carolina was a great experience today. I had a wonderful time and met some interesting folks, saw some interesting things, and ate some interesting food.
If any of you are older baskeball fans, you may recognize this face... Mr. Tommy Burleson of North Carolina State University. He played with David Thompson and Monte Towe in the early 1970s... He lives in Spruce Pine, NC, and was judging the woolly worm races :)
we call em wooly bears in ny, if its the same thing. they race everything. when my mom was in college, this dive bar near her school used to race cockroaches.
Ahh yes the wooly worm, we have them by the hundreds here in Alabama. My mom used to tell me the older people here predicted the weather by their color. The darker their color the colder the winter. No races here, but quiet an interesting idea, fun anyway.
here in Alabama. My mom used to tell me the older people here predicted the weather by their color. The darker their color the colder the winter.
My hubys granny(shes part cherokee indian) still does predict the winter weather. she does it by how thick thier "coat" is and shes never been wrong yet. last time she said we were going to have a bad winter it snowed here everyday for a month!
she was diagnosed with cancer last year and is still recovering from the treatments(so far cancer free now!) so i will have to get a few and take them in the house for her to look at.....wonder what she will say for this winter
love wooly worms...saw one yesterday. All one color. I was told that if it is dark on both ends and light in the middle that the winter would start and end mild but be harsh in the middle. The all one color meant it would be harsh all winter long.
