some stories are worth repeating..

 Some stories are worth repeating... so doing that to day as the main mill of the news is about the BIG STORM COMING...  and I thought walking down the lane of Nov. 2016 would be appealing..  

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 03, 2016

Mother Nature is rarely wrong....

There was a man, named Harold McWilliams, who

lived in Cle Elum, Washington. His profession was

that of a packer for the government.. He told of his

4 times around Mt. Rainier with his mules. Wenatchee

forest and Cle Elum area was also his work place.  He did this for over 40 years.. before getting another profession

of being a scrap iron hauler, in his mid 70’s. to his 80’s.

Everyone knew Harold, but they didn’t know him by

that name.. they knew him as “MAC the PACKER”.

He was known as that, far and wide, as many tourist

were taken thru the forest with him.  He had many

tales of fun times, sad times and times he wasn’t

happy with the way the public treated nature.

Mac passed away at the mere age of 95, I say

mere, because he was ageless.  He had a sense

of humor but also could be very serious.

Thru all those years of packing he came away

with a great understanding of mother earth.

One of which was, telling what kind of winters

we were going to get.  3 signs that I remember,

(there were more, but I only remember these

3’s)….   1. was the caterpillar…. The orange

one with a strip across the back. If that stripe

was wide .. it was going to be a bad winter.

2. The bees and hornets…  They would make

their beds/nest in the ground.. deep in the ground.

3. and the one he said was the most telling…

Was the twins and triplets of the deer and

moose.  He said it was like Mother Nature knew

not all of them would survive, so she product

more than one, which was the norm for the year.

So if he saw in his travels, multiple births,

He knew it was really going to be bad..

What brought all this to mind is.. as my husband

was hunting this year, he talked about twins, a lot…

and pictures in the newspaper, of the moose who

are moving back to town to feast on the apple

trees, and etc… are pictures of twins and even

triplets.   Also I notice the bees are in the grassy

area of my yard.. almost stepped on a few.

To me.. mother nature is rarely wrong.. so I

am going with the idea…it might be a late

Winter.. but it is going to be a doozy.

Thanks, Mac…..