T he halved joint is frequently known as half-lapping, and sometimes as checking and half-checking. In the majority of cases it is made by halving the two pieces, i.e., by cutting half the depth of the wood away. There are, however, exceptions ... Read more of The Halved Joint at Wood Workings.ca

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Clouds Large Like Rocks Great Showers
If Cloudy And It Soon Decrease Certain Fair Weather
Clouds: Small And Round Like A Dappley-grey With A North-wind Fair Weather For 2 Or 3 Days
Clouds In Summer Or Harvent
Fair Weather For A Week
If In The Old Rain In The New
If In The New Moon Rain In The Old
When The Wind Turns To North East
If The Sun Rise Red And Firey Wind And Rain
If Large Clouds Decrease Fair Weather

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If It Begins To Rain An Hour Or Two Before Sun Rising
If You See A Cloud Rise Against The Wind Or Side Wind
Winds Observe That In Eight Years' As Many Wet Years As Dry
Winter Time
If October And November Are Full Of Snow And Frost
S W Winds
If It Turn Out Again Out Of The South
If It Begins To Rain From The South
Mists If They Rise To The Hill-tops } Rain In A Day Or Two
If It Return To The South Within A Day Or Two Without Rain

Clouds: Small And Round Like A Dappley-grey With A North-wind Fair Weather For 2 Or 3 Days

THIS is differently expressed by other Authors. My Lord Bacon tells
us, that if Clouds appear white, and drive to the N. W. it is a Sign
of several Days fair Weather.

OUR old English Almanacks have a Maxim to this Purpose.

If woolly Fleeces spread the Heavenly Way,
Be sure no Rain disturbs the Summer Day.

AND Pliny to the same Purpose.[c]

[Footnote c: Ubi supra.]

SI Sol oriens cingetur Orbe, & postea totus defluxerit aequaliter,
Serenitatem dabit.

That is,

IF the rising Sun be incompassed with an Iris, or Circle of white
Clouds, and they equally fly away, this is a Sign of fair Weather.

THERE is another English Proverb worth remembering.

In the Decay of the Moon,
A cloudy Morning bodes a fair Afternoon.

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