Grab your shovel, it's a spoon!!

Growing up, my dad and I would go back on our farm to the persimmon tree and grab a couple and bring them back to the house to cut open.  According to folklore, you can predict the weather for the coming winter season by evaluating the kernel inside of the persimmon seed.

- If the kernel is spoon-shaped, lots of heavy, wet snow will fall. Spoon = Shovel!
- If it is fork-shaped, you can expect powdery, light snow and a mild winter.
- If the kernel is knife-shaped, expect to be "cut" by icy, cutting winds.

I wanted to do this with Nolan, so on Sunday Nolan and I jumped on the Kubota and went back to the persimmon tree and brought a couple of fruits back.  This is what a persimmon looks like, in case you were wondering.  The persimmon kind of reminds me of a pumpkin when it is cut open and the seeds are like pumpkin seeds, but extremely hard to open!!

There they are, the two spoons!!  Papa opened others to make sure as well and he had spoons too.  Sounds like lots of snowmen will be made again this year!!!