Six More Weeks of WINTER

Today is groundhog day. And it appears as if we are going to see six more weeks of winter. Well of course we are, we always do, Spring doesn't arrive until March......anyhow...

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. - Brace yourself for more wintry weather. Punxsutawney Phil
saw his shadow Saturday, leading the groundhog to forecast six more weeks of
winter.

Phil is pictured above looking like "why do you people do this every year? hehehe

The rodent was pulled from his stump by members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog
Club Inner Circle, top-hat- and tuxedo-wearing businessmen who carry out the
tradition.
Each Feb. 2, thousands of people descend on Punxsutawney, a town
of about 6,100 people some 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, to celebrate what
had essentially been a German superstition.
The tradition is that if a
hibernating animal sees a shadow on Feb. 2 — the Christian holiday of Candlemas
— winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow is seen, legend says spring
will come early.

Guess I get six more weeks of snuggling in front of the fireplace! (If only I had a special someone to snuggle with!) Read the whole groundhog story here.