Stop the commercialism of GHD

I've never understood the whole Groundhog thing. What is it? If he sees his shadow, we'll have six more weeks of winter; if he doesn't see his shadow, it will be six more weeks until Spring? I don't get it. And how does anyone know what the hell he sees anyway? Obviously, this is just another one of those huge, commercialized events designed to get us to buy lots of groundhog greeting cards, decorate our lawns with groundhog statues, send the kids out to burrow in the lawn for prizes, and dress up in our groundhog hats!! There's still time for you to knit up one yourself before heading out tonight to your local GroundHog Ball.  Pattern: Groundhog Hat. All I know is that it won't be warm around here until mid-April, so I'll have lots of opportunities to wear mine. And perhaps one day we'll return to the true spiritual, less material meaning of Punxsatawney Phil, "If you want to see your shadow, you have to come out of the ground and stand in the sun."

Comments

[Melissa]

it is quite silly, isn't it?? It made for a good movie, though.

[jenn Ty]

YOU MUST BE HITTING THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL FOR KNITTING PROJECTS..... I DARE YOU TO WEAR THIS HAT IN PUBLIC.....AND MAKE SURE YOU BRING YOUR CAMERA TO CATCH THE PUBLIC REACTION!!