CATERPILLARS: After reading about the oddball black caterpillar that one reader found, Dawn Blaisdell of Lewis Run shared what she always heard about the winter predictions of the critters.

“According to the oldies but goodies,” a black caterpillar means a hard winter is coming, and if it’s all white, it’ll be a light winter.

The standard orange and black caterpillars forecast a mixed winter, which she explained is “good and bad.”

“A pretty good winter, puts water in the well come spring,” she explained.

And another saying?

“When fog climbs the hill, puts water to the mill,” she tells us.

TOYS:The paper airplane is among the favorite toys that will be new additions to the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, N.Y.

The museum announced Thursday that paper airplanes, Wiffle balls and the board game Clue were chosen as the latest inductees.

“The honorees were selected from a field of 12 finalists that also included: Magic 8 Ball, Matchbox Cars, My Little Pony, PEZ Candy Dispenser, play food, Risk, sand, Transformers and Uno,” the museum related in a release.

A couple of “defining moments” led to the creation of the paper airplane, according to the museum.

“Artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci sketched and designed flying creations using parchment in the 15th century,” the release read. “Later, in the early 19th century, Sir George Cayley identified four primary forces — lift, drag, weight and thrust — which eventually helped the Wright Brothers first take flight in 1903.”

As for the Wiffle ball, it came into being when a retired semi-pro baseball player in the 1950s cut holes in spherical plastic containers so his son could play a game of baseball without breaking windows, the museum related.

And Clue was designed by a British couple during World War II. They patented it and had it released by Waddington Games before Parker Brothers bought the rights.