be prepared

My office is in the grounds of an old house and has beautiful gardens, including several mature trees. (I'm not keen on the mature trees in the carpark because pigeons sit in them and poo on your car. It's possibly the most adhesive substance in nature.) This one, I like.
I collect these large pine cones for lighting the woodburner in the winter. Quite a few fell together but there are still several hanging in there. I'm slightly concerned with how obsessively I'm watching them.