Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 02, 2015

Yeah buddy. Tell it like it IS!And yes… yes yes I do.

This year will be much more complex than the last dozen or so. With that stupid 50 shades movie coming out on that date, do you pay attention and play the humor card or will it get you in more trouble than it is worth. Can not win either way it appears.

It’s sad, in a way, that you don’t celebrate the love and joy of witnessing meteorological divination by obese burrowing rodents.

Celebrate by watching one of Bill Murray’s best comedies.

I’m single, so I actually spent more on today than I do on Valentines day. Had to get the sausage to eat for “ground hog” day.

It’s not wholly manufactured. Imbolc, Candlemas, 立春 is as real as the solstice and equinox. Ancient agricultural societies needed to plan their spring planting. Watching for hibernating animals to emerge was one more sign.

Coincidentally, the new, larger hamster cage came in today. So, happy rodents’ day.

It might as well be divination these days. The “official” groundhog is a pampered pet and probably has no instincts or exposure to the outdoors at all. It certainly has no application half a continent away. Here in the Colorado foothills, I don’t think I have ever seen signs of spring in early February.

Night-Gaunt49: I was so aggrieved over your comment that I almost burned my sausage.

Once again, Frazz chimes in to tell people they’re celebrating holidays wrong.

Here in Pugetopolis we can never be sure of our weather. We sort of — vaguely - have three seasons that stagger haltingly into one another. One frustrating summer day, I was moved to write the following: I hate to see summer arrive/ because it’s over too soon/and the fall that quickly follows/turns immediately into winter. I hate winter because the cold lingers too long/and goes deeply into what should be spring/making it such a long time/before the warmth of summer comes again. :) ( Who says being a retired English teacher is boring?)

Oops! Sorry about the strike throughs. At least now I know how they work.

As a Science teacher, I must point out that there will ALWAYS be seven weeks’ of winter between the 2nd of February and the Spring Equinox.

As an aside — to our friends in the Southern Hemisphere (and I know you’re out there) — do you have a similar “Ground Hog Day” event in early August?

And before the Groundhog, it was Candlemas Day.

Maybe we will see Principal Spaetzel’s wife? That would be fun!

I’ve said it before—I’m amazed that Caulfield (nor Jef Mallett, apparently) has not yet researched the background of “Groundhog’s Day”—AKA Candlemas.