New Jersey Margo reports sunny days ahead. It's easy for her to predict an early spring because she's been spreading sunshine since she was born, just after Groundhog Day one year ago. That means our own little groundhog celebrates her first birthday tomorrow. Of course, she sees blue skies, and happy times, and delicious cake [...]
I don't know about Punxsutawney Phil, Sun Prairie Jimmy, Staten Island Chuck or Dunkirk Dave, but Biskupic Bob always looks a little bewildered when we trot him out each year. "Again?" he rolls his eyes when we haul him out of the closet for his annual photo shoot. This year, we tempted him with a [...]
It seems about right that Milltown Mel up and died two days before he had to stick his nose out of his den and let the world know how long winter would last. Who wants to be the bearer of more bad news this year? We already have a virus lasting so much longer than [...]
It may be that I’ve been hibernating too long myself, but yesterday, rather than celebrating Groundhog Day with my usual its-almost-spring-even-though-it-really-isn’t optimistic zest, I felt a little sorry for all those groundhogs. I imagined myself being yanked from a sound slumber and held aloft, hair all matted, eyes blurry and sticky with sleep, frantically trying [...]
We’re very impressed with you here in Wisconsin. You’ve racked up some record numbers and enjoyed the kind of week we’ll all be talking about for years. Why, just the other morning you scored a -26 on my car’s dashboard temperature gauge and that’s without any help from the wind. You closed schools and essential [...]