It's Groundhog Day, 2/2/22! I've heard that this morning Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and ran inside for 6 more weeks of winter. Here in Kentucky our solid rainy skies would prevent any groundhog from having a shadow, but the ones on my tie seem very happy to greet you today. And they would like you to know that besides being known as woodchucks they are also referred to as a chuck, wood-shock, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk, land beaver, and, among French Canadians in eastern Canada, siffleux. By the way, the wonderfully wacky movie "Groundhog Day" (1993) "has been analyzed as a religious allegory by Buddhists, Christians, and Jews."
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