any thoughts about an early winter?

Golden Rod and Asters are starting to bloom here. Thats about a month and A half early for this area. Getting lots of calls honey bees in peoples homes to and that is early for this area.
I myself am sick and tired of this record setting hot weather this summer. I am praying for a early winter with lots of snow.

Al

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Funny, exactly what I was thinking, Bring it on!!
Im tired of making hay and getting bit by deer flies.
Maters are starting to turn..its time.YEEEHAW

Looks like long summer here.

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I won't mind an early winter as long as my new hives get their little butts moving a bit faster.

I too am looking forward to winter...hoping for lots of snow!

I'm not sure why some of our trees here are doing what they're doing but I suspect they may have been damaged a bit in the hard winter and long snowy time followed by weeks of torrential rains immediately followed by the hottest summer on record.

Even my tomatoes have folded up shop because of the heat. Has anyone heard of that before? I sure haven't.

My garden produced diddly and it did it all early....but yet I had to plant late because of snow. Not much from the garden this year for sure.

The Crepe myrtle came into bloom about a month early, ditto with some of the other tell tales.

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A lot of our trees are starting to turn fall colors, but I thought it was due to the lack of rain, and hot weather we've had. It has really been a dry summer for us. But, my daughter even mentioned that it was starting to look like fall. We usually don't see it like this until late August.

Oklahoma will have a mild wet winter as the la nina effect does that to us.
Thats aok as I am tired of the ice storms, the winter blizzards and the ice storms and I said that already didnt I

Summer is just getting started.

That's a job for January We never cut the deadfalls/blowdowns in our own woods (only summer storm clean-up for other people) until after deer season. Nothing like hitting the woods on a cold winter's day and warming yourself up running the chainsaw and making woodpiles.

Then in the summer we retrieve those piles we made in the winter and stack them up closer to where they will actually be used.

Right now we have about 2 winter's worth of wood by the woodburner, so the piles in our woods will probably age out there another year or so before we bring them in.

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Ive already seen wolly worms. Im hoping for a mild winter but from what i see on the almanac looks like lots of snow and bitter cold for me. http://www.farmersalmanac.com/frigid...ather-outlook/

My thoughts are "yes please" but I don't live far enough north to really know what winter is.

Yikes! No winter for me, yet! Lots of summer left... a whole month at least!

Winter is long here in Wisconsin, so I enjoy every drop of summer and gardening and chickens as I possibly can. When I start to tire of it, I simply remember how horrible it is doing chicken chores in January and February.

I wouldn't mind a decrease in the mosquitos, though! I've been bitten so much I'm feeling anemic!

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Counted 28 Wollyworms crossing the road in a 8 mile drive around the area today, come on FALL!!

Emmy

I'm ready for cooler weather but not winter, not yet. My new front door won't even be at the store before the middle of August! And we're still tearing apart skids and cutting them down to wood stove size. But the cicadias and crickets are singing very very early, the baby Canadian geese are fully feathered and just about ready for their first flight, goldernrod has buds on it and the summer asters are just about done blooming. The squirrels have eaten every single nut they have been able to find and are now very shy and keeping hidden (usually doesn't happen until late August). The groundhogs are eating stuff they normally wouldn't (like my potato plants) even though there is still food available in the woods. When it hits here it's going to be quick.

We had a late summer, it's been a crappy gardening year, so I'm about ready for winter to hit. Hay deliveries start next week so as soon as that's stacked and tarped it can go ahead and snow!

I don't know anything about the skunks indicating early winter. Here they hang around all year and they own the sidewalks at nights. I haven't seen any woolybears yet. Don't know about the possibility of early winter but nothing would surprise me this year anymore. Spring started here at the beginning of December!! last year and hung around until early June and then we went straight into this hot weather and have had no rain for 2 months now. All the leaves on the trees are starting to yellow from the heat and dryness, a lot of the trees are dropping brown leaves.

My garden has been doing great though and so are all the neighbours gardens and all the local farmer's markets are packed with tons of local produce. I picked up some lovely English peas, Yukon gold potatoes, peaches 'n' cream corn, apricots, yellow plums, peaches and cherries at farmers market today, all locally grown.

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OMGosh DITTO!!!!

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Last summer I heard Evelyn Browning on the Financial Sense News Hour and kept in mind what she had said about the upcoming winter. The winter we had was just what she predicted only I thought the severity was more than I expected. She really seems to understand weather patterns and what we can expect.

Here's a link to this summer's FSN with her as a guest if anyone cares to listen to it.
http://www.financialsensenewshour.co...010-0724-2.mp3

Evelyn has contributed to the Farmer's Almanac for years. Here is her website:
http://browningnewsletter.com/

Here's the link to Jim Puplava's Financial Sense News Hour website:
http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour