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Happy Groundhog Day

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 12:08pm on 2005-02-02

Happy Groundhog Day!

I haven't turned on the telly or radio, so I don't know which groundhogs saw their shadows (okay, usually they only report on Punxsutawney Phil even though it's the groundhog in Irving, Texas who matters[1]), so I don't know whether, as my father used to explain it, we'll have six more weeks of winter or only a month and a half.

And no, I didn't get Groundhog Day cards mailed out last week. I find myself saying, just as I did last year, "NEXT year I'll be better organized." At least this year I did get as far as uncovering the stash of leftover cards from way back when I was last organized enough to send them.

And to friends and readers so inclined, Happy Imbolc as well. (Would it be appropriate to eat cheese made with sheep's milk in honour of the holiday?)

([1] And, according to tradition, the one that folks have any influence over.)

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My Mommy always told me it was local

posted by [identity profile] old-hedwig.livejournal.com at 05:24pm on 2005-02-02
In fact, she is out of town this week and reminded me to notice what the weather is here, because the media only report on the famous groundhogs. And it is quite sunny here, so I suppose the DC metro area id in for the whole 6 weeks.

However, I notice the sun is in fact returning, and some stuff is even beginning to sprout a little bit, and I am getting lots more energy. The system is working, the wheel continues to turn. Definitely an occasion for sheep's milk cheese, even if you are not of the pagan persuasion.

And happy Candlemas to my fellow Christians!
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Oh yes, Candlemas!

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 06:16pm on 2005-02-02
Local makes so much more sense (and is how I'd always figured it worked a a kid, before I started paying enough attention to television to have heard of Phil). When I got a bit older I felt confused because I couldn't understnad why they weren't reporting on a Maryland groundhog (or better yet, giving reports county by county) if it was an important enough tradition to make such a fuss over in the first place.

The Irving, TX reference was just a bit of school pride and a nod to the UD tradition that it's the students' duty to get the groundhog so drunk that he can't see his own shadow.
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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 06:00pm on 2005-02-02
A groundhog in Staten Island is apparently predicting an early Spring, which is relevant to me but probably not you. But at least the Parks Department has stopped trying to pass off prairie dogs as relevant to Imbolc.
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Happy Imbolc!

posted by [identity profile] kara-h.livejournal.com at 07:29pm on 2005-02-02
As usual, cnn.com talking about the Feb 2 tradition said it
comes from Catholicism. News for them, the roots older than that.
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posted by [identity profile] katrinb.livejournal.com at 07:58pm on 2005-02-02
It is always appropriate to eat sheep's milk cheese.
Happy Spring-is-coming-really-it-is holiday to you, too. (I know you don't do Imbolc, per se, but...)
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