Groundhog Day

According to Wikipedia: "The Groundhog Day celebrations of the 1880s were carried out by the Punxsutawney Elks Lodge. The lodge members were the "genesis" of the Groundhog Club formed later, which continued the Groundhog Day tradition. But the lodge started out being interested in the groundhog as a game animal for food. It had started to serve groundhog at the lodge, and had been organizing a hunting party on a day each year in late summer." Later the groundhog became weatherman Punxsutawney Phil.

Groundhog Stew

I ate groundhog once. I was not impressed. Nor, am I impressed with the groundhog weatherman. By most statistics he is wrong more than he is right (much like all weathermen); and, regardless of his forecast we will still have 6 more weeks on the winter season on the calendar and more than likely more bad weather than that.

So the only good thing I can say about groundhog day is that we have made it halfway through the winter calendar season.