Groundhog Day is generally, to my knowledge, only a popular day in the United States on February 2, and mostly popular in Pennsylvania, where it originated from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog emerges from its burrow on his day, and sees its shadow due to clear weather, it will retreat to its den, and winter will go on for six more weeks; if it does not see it's shadow because of cloudy weather, spring will arrive early. The Groundhog Day festivities held in Punxsutawney PA are big business and its most frequently attended ceremony. While I'm not a meteorologist, and I hate to rain on their parade, six more weeks of winter, won't be a bad thing, as we have been extremely mild and warmer in January ...with February continuing the warm trend from what I'm hearing. It beeen a warm winter for us. The Mistress says put the sleds away and get the square cuts out!!!!
And yes, dear Phil did indeed see his shadow today if you're wondering. Can't they let the poor rodent rest in his den?
Have a wonderful Groundhog Day and be sure to look for your shadow!!!
Just our of curiosity, did Phil bite anybody this year?
ReplyDeleteI'd prefer to see Phil take a big, loose steaming-hot bowel movement on whoever's holding him. If his B.M. is loose, that means an early spring.
DeleteLmao!!!!!! The only problem with that, people don't have a sense of humor anymore, you know they have the poor creature put down.
DeleteI don't put a lot of faith in Phil, but it is a nice tradition.
ReplyDeleteOvercast and mild here, but then there are no groundhogs any more than there is sunshine. The snowdrops are looking good though.
ReplyDeletePS Him indoors claims this is a Celtic ritual.
DeleteWe celebrate Groundhog Day in Canada too. There are at least prognosticating groundhogs in our country -- one in Ontario named "Wiarton Willie,", one in the Maritimes somewhere whose name escapes me, and one right here in Alberta named "Balzac Billy." That last meme is perfect!
ReplyDeleteUpdate! Apparently the Maritime groundhog is named "Shubenacadie Sam." Plus there's a fourth groundhog named "Manitoba Merv" -- sheesh, we're being overrun with these rodents!
DeleteI love this so hard....
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It could be worse Debs, his name could be Manitoba perv!
DeleteToday in Italy it's Madonna della Candelora. Take a look here
ReplyDeleteI prefer the Italian celebration, of course.
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so, I give you and two interesting insight here and here
DeleteI saw a meme that had Phil's wife, who has now moved to Florida and in a bubble above her head it said "Phil is a pathological liar"... :)
ReplyDeleteRotflmao!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteI wish we'd been having a warm winter. But, alas! it has been cold as a witches tit, as we used to say back in OH when I was a wee lad. However, with the resultant snowpack in the Rockies...I'll take the extended winter this year to help alleviate the lowering lake levels. Course, we'll need another 12 to 15 years of this to fill the lake.
ReplyDeleteEvidently, there's also Big Al Alligator, Scramble the Duck, and 9 (named in an atlasobsura.com article today) or more other groundhogs! Currently, it's 47 here in sunny Burbank and 4 in sunny LA!. Who knows what the rest of winter is going to be like here in So.Cal, sweetpea! xoxo
ReplyDeleteCorrection because of a missed key: it's 54 in Los Angeles, not 4! xoxo
DeleteOh, I never trust the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's in the twenties today, so good luck, Phil!
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It maddening how people pay more attention to a rodent for the weather instead of other people.
ReplyDeleteWell for your information, most days I trust a rodent over Republicans!
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Tundra Bunny here... It was -42 Celsius here last night. If someone pulled me out of my nice warm bed and shoved me outside to see or not see my shadow, the blood left on the snow would not be mine!
ReplyDeleteOh so you had a warm spell at -42 Celsius!
DeleteYup, your cock-a-tails would just freeze and snap off here this week!
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And I just learned there's ANOTHER weather forecasting groundhog in Quebec named "Fred La Marmotte" -- maybe EVERY province in Canada has one? I'll stop now.
ReplyDeleteAt least that is a regal name. Im beginning to think the Casa du Borghese should have a type of creature predicting the weather.like my houseboys perhaps. But we can all agree how they'd be predicting the weather. The neighbors would wonder why there is a line up of full salutes....for a forth coming spring...or deflated flags.... heralding six more weeks of winter.
DeleteDid you know this is the same Punxsutawney Phil that's been looking for his shadow since 1887? I know it's hard to believe. But would they lie?
ReplyDeleteI did!!!!!
DeleteClever post. Shadow dancing... ahh... Andy Gibb. Such a cutie. I would have loved to have spanked his bottom.
ReplyDeleteThat's some interesting back story, thanks for sharing that. Greetings!
ReplyDeleteGroundhogs remind me that it's my brother's birthday every year
ReplyDeleteLOL! He must take comfort in that?!?!
DeleteGroundhog Day always make me happy; I have no idea why. I love the graphic far down that reads, Not everyone loves my figure, but they love my shadow.!!!!
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