Posts

Showing posts from February, 2023

I wish...and I wish...and I wish

 Good day readers, Here we are in mid-February, post Groundhog day, post Super bowl, post Valentines day.  Hmmm, so we inch toward Spring with slightly longer days of light and a little less cold.  Honestly, in my fictional home of greater Questionopolis, it has been unseasonably warm this winter.  We are in southeast Pennsylvania, known as the "greater Philadelphia" region.  PA is the home state to the hamlet of Punxsutawney.  The town that houses weather prognosticator Punxsutawney Phil-THE groundhog of Groundhog Day (February 2). In short order- The groundhog, Phil, saw his shadow.  Well, it WAS sunny that day.  What's it mean?  Six more weeks of wintery weather.  This winter has been more like an early spring anyway in Questionopolis so it is really no big deal.  The corpulent, ground- dwelling rodent is quite expansive and with sunshine can throw quite a shadow while his handlers are holding him up in the air.   Next ...