May you all receive the blessings bestowed by Punxatawney Phil on this, the high holy day of The Groundhog.
Celebrate the festive day by singing a few Groundhog’s Carols:
- Me and My Shadow
- Here Comes the Sun
- On A Clear Day (You Can See Your Shadow) [BTW - last mention of anything remotely related to Barbara Streisand ever on my blog]
Play a few Groundhog Games:
- Pin the tail on the groundhog
- Hole and go seek
- Spin the flashlight
Finish with the groundhog feast (no, don’t eat a groundhog; that’d be sacrelidge) – eat some carrots and rotten tulip bulbs. If you have time, make a dirt cake. With gummy worms.
And remember the old Groundhogs’ Blessing:
May your summer be long and your winter short;
May your clothing soon be of the springtime sort.
Don’t ask who decided “no shadow” brings spring;
But there must have been a grant do decide such a thing.
Cheers.
Categories: Blogroll · stuff in my head
Yahoo!
I’m a weather junkie. More accurately, I’m a bad weather junkie. When I see a link to pictures of bad weather, I’m going there.
There was a terrible storm in central Florida yesterday. More than a dozen people died, and there was the prerequisite amount of mobile home destruction. Since being directly under a tornado when I was a kid, I have this horrible fascination with them…so imagine my excitement when I saw there were pics with the story.
Only, the pics were not of this storm.
Oh, there were two that were “aftermath of the storm” shots, and those were okay. And they had a map of Florida – I guess some people might not know where that is, so that was good. Oh, they also had a satellite image of the Eastern US, including the band of clouds where this storm was born. Look, it’s that little dot down at the lower…oh, never mind.
But the twister shot they included in the show – a tornado picture taken in Brazil somewhere back in 2006.
What?
Brazil?
Don’t we have enough pictures of homegrown tornadoes that we could at least avoid using an import?
Are we outsourcing our bad weather to South America?
Apparently, this storm was camera-shy, and had the bad manners to come in the middle of the night – not optimal conditions for a good tornado shot.
But to the team at Yahoo! – here’s my whine and your cheese for the dramatic coverage…of the wrong storm.
Photo: AFP
Categories: Bad internet · stuff in my head
