10. Leaves are falling like a Wall Street speculator’s net worth.

9. The neighbor says he read on the Internet that, because of global warming, the wheat may grow all winter and be ready to cut in March.

8. Your other neighbor stops by to warn that the wooly bear caterpillars indicate the coldest winter in history.

7. You get the first of your small square bale donation requests: first for the Homecoming float, followed by Halloween and Thanksgiving yard decorations and ending up the season with nativity scenes.

6. Every morning you get a dew-soaked spider web across the face.

5. You congratulate yourself for having the foresight to never getting around to putting away all your winter stuff last spring.

4. You actually talk to the last field of beans you planted with the operative phrase being “hurry up.”

3. You’ve counted your stash of big round bales for the fifth time.

2. The TV networks unleash a whole new slate of shows you won’t watch.

1. Anhydrous thieves are all giddy about daylight savings time going off so they don’t have to stay up so late.