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Post by Voy on Feb 2, 2022 16:08:36 GMT 2
Punxatawny Phil has predicted 6 more weeks of winter.... based on the forecast he sure is right for the near future anyway !
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Post by Scrubb on Feb 2, 2022 21:56:43 GMT 2
Heh, GH Day never made sense to me as a kid. Here in Saskatchewan, the options:
1. early spring
and
2. 6 more weeks of winter
don't work. Here, on Feb 2, if there are only 6 more weeks of winter, that would be an early spring!
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Post by tzarine on Feb 4, 2022 19:36:42 GMT 2
i feel for the people w/o electricity & there's another storm already
phil's right again
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 11, 2022 12:03:25 GMT 2
This is rom today's Times:
The Accession archive edition of The Times from February 7, 1952 had four broadsheet pages devoted to royal news but my eye was drawn to a small item headlined: “The Course of Nature: Badgers as Weather Prophets”. This item (“From a Correspondent”) was on the “countryman belief” that if a badger looks out of his hole on Candlemas Day (February 2) and finds snow then he “walks abroad” but if he sees the sun shining then he disappears underground (and spring will be late). It’s an earlier version of what became — in America where badgers are much less common — Groundhog Day.
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Post by Voy on Feb 11, 2022 16:25:34 GMT 2
Baz -- thank you ! fascinating ! And I will tell my friend,Kathy, who celebrates the day - by the whole family wearing only brown, and dinner being all brown things. When they lived in Aruba I flew down, co--incidentaly on GHD, and she was having a party - which totally mystified her Dutch and Aruban and Venezuelan guests. She made me wear my fur coat and be the visiting ground hog....
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Post by tzarine on Feb 4, 2023 6:14:04 GMT 2
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 5, 2023 11:27:13 GMT 2
What is Ground Hog Day? Is it an American thing? I know you have Turkey Day (Thanksgiving) and Washington’s Birthday.
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Post by Voy on Feb 5, 2023 16:21:40 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Feb 5, 2023 20:11:39 GMT 2
What is Ground Hog Day? Is it an American thing? I know you have Turkey Day (Thanksgiving) and Washington’s Birthday. as a holiday, george washington & abraham lincoln's bdays have been mashed into presidents day |
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 6, 2023 1:28:09 GMT 2
So an underground pest is used to tell the weather depending on which way its head turns? My grandma’s bunions did the same thing. She was always spot on with her weather predictions. |
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Post by tzarine on Feb 6, 2023 3:09:32 GMT 2
phil is not a pest, nets
people on the east coast are very fond of him!
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Post by Voy on Feb 6, 2023 4:14:47 GMT 2
well - when the honey comb your back fields with their multi-entrance burrows and eat stuff in your vegetable garden they ARE pests. i finally made them move away from the closest one by pouring dirty cat litter down the holes..
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Post by sophie on Feb 6, 2023 6:00:18 GMT 2
We have similar critters, marmots. They can be a pest but definitely important to the whole ecosystem.
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Post by Baz Faz on Feb 6, 2023 6:47:14 GMT 2
The groundhog appeared here in Nong Khai, sniffed the air and wrinkled his nose. As the week goes on the temperature rises to 37c - blood heat. The ground hog has vanished back down his hole where it is cooler.
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Post by Netsuke on Feb 6, 2023 13:44:08 GMT 2
Baz, Thailand has a tropical clime and so…I give you…Mad Dogs and Englishmen!
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Post by rikita on Feb 12, 2023 14:18:03 GMT 2
And I will tell my friend,Kathy, who celebrates the day - by the whole family wearing only brown, and dinner being all brown things. chocolate for dinner? |
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Post by Voy on Feb 12, 2023 16:03:26 GMT 2
chocolate features in the dessert ! the main course is usually pot roast or a stew - with a brown gravy.
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Post by tzarine on Feb 13, 2023 3:38:41 GMT 2
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