ODDITIES: Andy Heffner of Ormsby called with a few oddities he’s noticed recently.

First, he’s been seeing little newts in his yard. He “usually sees the babies in the first part of spring” and wasn’t sure why he’s seeing babies now.

Similarly, Andy just spotted a spotted baby fawn that “could have been two or three weeks old.”

He explained that if this was like other years, that fawn should have been two or even three times that size by this time.

Do any readers have a theory for why Andy is seeing so many late babies?

The topic of woolly worms also came up.

Andy’s daughter called him to say she was seeing them crossing the road was she was driving. He hadn’t seen them up till then, but he has since.

That’s the first woolly bears that we’ve heard about this summer.

The last oddity is a fun one.

Andy has five rows, 52 feet long, of Montana red raspberries that he raised in his yard. They produce huge berries that can be from the tip of his thumb to his first knuckle in size.

Each year, he gets a few of what he calls double raspberries or twins — two berries that grow together as one. Sometimes he’ll even get a couple that are three or four berries growing, and once there were five.

“This year, I’ve got hundreds of them,” he reported of the number of twins. “Isn’t that unreal?”

Andy is wondering why in the world so many of them grew together like that this year. He is hoping one of our readers had a guess.

“It was a great year for berries,” he noted. They picked 27 gallons of berries last week.

Andy harvested his famous garlic just over a week ago.

He tells us the bulbs are a little smaller than last year, but as we recall, last year was a great year for his garlic.

He sold 509 pounds of garlic in 2017.