Thursday, February 3, 2011

Groundhogs and the weather...

Yesterday was Groundhog's Day and Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow. Hurray! Spring will come early this year...well, at least that's what tradition says.

The Groundhog Day celebration is rooted in a German superstition that says if a hibernating animal casts a shadow on Feb. 2, the Christian holiday of Candlemas, winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow was seen, legend said spring would come early.

In the southern part of the US where I live we've seen unusal amounts of snowfall this winter. Frankly, our blood is just too thin to stand much more. While I do commiserate with our Northern brothers and sisters who are in the midst of record snowfalls, this is supposed to be the "Sunny South"! Personally I'm ready to start planting the garden!

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