I Have Learned Something, I Think

[Wilma]

For the first time I had the chance to use live pine boughs with cones to make a Christmas centerpiece.  The pine stayed out on the back porch until the centerpiece was made, then it was placed on a table here inside.  Yesterday, we began hearing a cracking sound and since it was sleeting and the wind was blowing, I thought it was something hitting the house.  Daughter located the source this morning.  It was the pine cones opening.  I did not know that the warmer air would open the cones or is it the drier air?  Either way, I have learned something.  Old dogs can learn.

[Janet Harrington]

Oh, Mother.  You will never be an old dog.

[Varmit]

It was the warm air.  Kinda cool to watch if you throw one in a fire, just do it outside.

[sixdogsmom]

Those seeda are kinda fun to plant and watch sprout too. We did that one year with seed from a Scotch Pine.