Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning indicating that winter will last six more weeks. Now Phil and his kin can go back to their relative obscurity as a species.
Note: according to my Trivia calendar, “In the past sixty years, the groundhog has only predicted the weather correctly 28 percent of the time”. So, more likely than not, Phil is wrong about this year too.
Several years ago we encountered a couple baby groundhogs. We noticed the small furry creatures on the side of the road in front of our neighbor’s house. Even though they were shaking in fear when we approached, one of them managed to growl at us. And according to Wikipedia, groundhogs can be aggressive: They’re known for their aggression, so you’re starting from a hard place. [Their] natural impulse is to kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out. You have to work to produce the sweet and cuddly. So Phil is clearly domesticated. (In case you were wondering, the baby groundhogs returned to the neighbor’s backyard).
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