Words for Wednesday -- November 3

All of November - and for the first time today - Margaret Adamson and friends are supplying us with prompts and let's enjoy, for it's their last time due to health issues.
  What we do to them is up to us, poem, story, shopping list, ignore ... the grand idea is to make us write. 
  Go to Elephant's Child's place to find the prompts, read some good stories, and be inspired to write your own.
  This is a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true, therefore: Please, remember to go back, read other peoples' stories there or follow their links back. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction.

And today's prompts are:
Beechmast (I had to look this one up - I did not know the English word, but obviously the thing 😉)
Investigating
Muffler
Sensible
Penetrate
Fox
     And/or
Ferrule (although I knew the word, I did not find a place for it in the story)
Miserable
Odd
Soaking
Bedstead
Contrary

Susan is at home in Elsinore in the Autumn. Real life story.

  Wading through the beechmast Susan enjoyed the crunching sound. She spied an unusually plump beecnut and bent to retrieve it. She peeled the triangular shining shells off the interior nut and popped it into her mouth,. The bitter-sweet, tangy taste of the nut filled her mouth. It was enjoyable, but she knew better than to eat a lot of them. She had done so the previous year, as a result getting a grandfather tummy-ache and felt miserable for days after. This year she would be more sensible. She re-wound her muffler, as the wind penetrated to her skin. She loved these windy, crisp autumn days in the woods.
  A squirrel ran up the tree, startling her. She heard footsteps form afar and froze behind her bush. Her eyes went to and fro, investigating the source of the sound. The footsteps were odd, soft, padding. She almost laughed with relief; it was not a human being, but a fox! Somewhere Susan had read that soaking the beechmast would leech the bitter taste, making them more stomach and palate friendly. She wanted to try and gathered a small bagful of the triangular nuts.
  After the bike home she threw her outer clothing on the bedstead and went into the kitchen. She peeled all the nuts at the small, cosy table and put them in a bowl. After a rinse, she poured almost boiling water over them and left them to soak. Contrary to her normal haphazard ways Susan did not forget to strain and soak the nuts two more time and the result was delicious, less bitterness and more taste. But she still got a stomach-ache.

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Apart from being the always wonderful Words for Wednesday-day today is also the first Wednesday and hence the Insecure Writers' Support Group day. Today they pose a simple question:
What's harder to do, coming up with your book title or writing the blurb?

  For me the title of the book is an easy find, it always shows up while I'm writing. For some books it was even been the first thing I ever knew about it.
  Writing blurbs on the other hand ... entice the reader, but do not reveal too much, and without sounding totally inane or like a plagiarism of someone else. That's hard!