sandy l

Happy Ground Hog day everybody, and may your local groundhog not see his/her shadow

mermaid

Ha ha I'm staying inside today....not taking any chances!

QuiltnNan

Puxatawny Phil didn't see his shadow... an early spring!

DOTTYMO

What is ground hog day and the comment about shadows , please?

quilterlaurie

There is a groundhog in Pennsylvania that predicts the weather. On Feb 2 he comes out of his den and if it is sunny he sees his shadow and gets frightened back into his hole for 6 more weeks. If it is cloudy he stays out and an early spring is to be had.

sandy l

Not sure when or how it got started, but if a ground hog,(a big fat furry animal that burrows (do a Google for a picture)), see's his shadow early in the morning, we will have 6 more weeks of winter. Silly, I know.

Doggramma

We have Jimmy. He predicts an early spring. Last year the previous Jimmy tried to bite the mayor, so this year Jimmy had to do his predicting from his cage.

Battle Axe

And I saw my first robin. What a day!!!

vschieve

In 1887 in Punxsutawney, PA, the first Groundhog Day was celebrated.

Sewnoma

Trevor Noah did a pretty funny bit on the Daily Show, about how weird it is that Americans use a rodent to predict the weather. He says in Africa (where he's from) they use this weird thing called "satellite data".

It doesn't sound funny when I typed it out, but I found it to be quite amusing the way he presented it.