The Wooly Worm came to our house!

So we came home after a day full of shopping, put all the groceries away and did some cleaning up. Joe decided to go on the front porch and put the cover over the grill for the winter. Picking the cover up off the ground, he noticed that quite a few critters had made their home underneath the cover over the summer. Most of bugs were Gemini Crickets, spiders and a couple of flies. But there was one thing that he definately did not expect to see.... a wooly worm! Now we had never heard of these before until Channel 19 did a report last year about weather folklore and predicting winter. Joe had to find some pictures of wooly worms to use for the story since you can supposedly predict how harsh or mild a winter will be by the length of his orange band of color.

What he was doing on our front porch, will never know, I guess he just found some shelter underneath an unused vinyl tarp. Now the tarp is gone, we hope he will be okay. Here are a couple of pictures we took of him. Aren't I brave? One thing interesting that we found out, when they get scared, they curl up into a little fuzzy ball like rolly pollies do... he's cute!