People were gathering on Gobblers Knob, it can mean only one thing...It's Groundhog Day. Yes good ol' Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow again which is the seventh seal of the coming apocalypse or six more weeks of winter, I forget which. I remember the first time I saw a groundhog, I was just walking down the sidewalk and this thing came out of the hedge and walked down the pavement towards me. I thought 'Damn that poor beaver has lost his tail!' He didn't it was just a groundhog genus Woodius Chuckota. We use to have a woodchuck that lived near our house. I called him Fred. He lived in the park. Outside his burrow the ground was riddled with bones. It looked like the bones of people. Actually I think he just used to steal it from the butcher across the street. The best time I ever met a groundhog was when I was sitting out behind the greenhouse on a lunch break at the garden center I worked at. I was relaxing in the grass, eating lunch, and reading Harry Potter when I heard - snort, snort, snort, from the bushes, and out charges Mr. Groundhog right next to me. He stops in his tracks, looks a bit embarrassed, like he was merrily grunting a little tune through the woods when he bumped into me and he felt sorry for disturbing me, so he just quietly walked backwards into the bushes, then went off on his little way. Much like I shall do now.
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"Oh sorry are you reading?"
2 comments:
Happy Groundhog Day! They're cute fellas. I suppose the best equivalent we have is a badger?
What does one do one this illustrious day back home?
One is either most joyous because when the ground hog came out of his hollow he did not see his shadow, if however, he see his shadow, then we are all sad. Seeing his shadow means we have six more weeks of winter, no shadow means spring is coming sooner. Woodstock Willie, yes, the same one from the movie, "Groundhog Day", you will be pleased to know did not see his shadow this morning, right here in Woodstock, Illinois.
Mom
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