During the daytime, I have Honeybees flitting around and at night, salamanders are on the march.
Tonight, it took me 15 minutes to go over a 3 minute mountain, because I was carefully avoiding the hordes of things crawling across the road.
The birds who *always* bug out southward in late September, are still here.
The deer, the horses, the cattle, my dogs and goats are all sporting very light winter coats.
Last week, my back porch Orb Spider had thrown up a lovely web.
I still have trees with green leaves on them and the grass is also green.
I tend to believe the “forecasts” made by the very things that will *die* if they’re wrong, rather than weathermen.
My Grandfather taught me to watch the hair growing over a horse’s hoofs. The longer the hair, the colder the winter coming. My dog is also a good indicator based on her coat this time of year. I still have cherry tomatoes ripening, but don’t expect that to last too long.
My dog’s fur is slow to come in and the horses have short hair over their hooves. Probably means a mild winter here in Southeast Texas.
It's kind of hard to argue with that.
However, an alternative argument revolves around the 95% of the species ever existing in the history of earth which are no longer with us.
They guessed wrong?