Wonder if those were real leeches, or he just had some guy who hung around with him because he was well-to-do, telling him the weather forecast?(posted 9671 days ago)We're on the Atlantic coast, so most of our big weather comes from the ocean, one way or another...
Fishing is best, when the wind's in the West.
Forget fishing when all the cows are laying down all day.
If the woods get, and stay, quiet, batten down the hatches cause it's gonna blow!
If the seagulls start to fly inland as hard as they can go (but not just to a landfill...), batten down etc., etc.
Quilted sky means snow. (Rare here in SE NC, usually
) I have a weather bird feeder. It's a cedar log 5.1247 feet tall, buried 1' deep, with a rectangular piece of indoor grade plywood nailed precisely in the center to the top of said cedar log.
If the weather is going to be crapp..., er, bad, the plywood droops down on the ends- fair weather, it straightens back up to near level.
During our recent string of hurricanes, floods, etc., that piece of wood looked like it was draped over the cedar post...
If you see seagulls flying inland as hard as they can go (and NOT just headed for the landfill...), batten down the, etc., etc.