Ever since the second day of February, a little Groundhog predicts our weather to see if we make it to an Early Spring or screwed with more winter.
How? By seeing its shadow or not. When I was young, I always thought if he saw his shadow, we'd get more spring. I found out I was wrong a few years later.
It's rare that he would be able to see his shadow. He has over eighteen times. Last year being one of them. He usually would see it and many people would get pissed. How did this tradition start, and what will happen in the near future?
Will every February 2nd be Groundhog's Day or will there soon be a change in the near future. I feel some people, especially people in PETA want to get rid of the Groundhog all together.
PETA wants to do away with the day all together and have something inadiment, like a coin or a piece of cake to predict the future.
This is true people. They believe the Groundhog is suffering every 2nd day of February for a tradition started back in the thirties. They even wanted to do away with the Groundhog and replace it with a cake you would get at a Gender reveal party.
The first Groundhog's Day started a long time ago in another country. Using a Badger in place of a Groundhog. It would be known as Badger Day, and it took place around Germany where it was called Daschtag.
So... why replace one animal with another? Who knows; I guess it was a traditional thing. Plus, Badger Day was on the first day of February, not the second.
Groundhog's Day was also a movie that came out in the 90's starring Bill Murray. He would have to relive the same day over, and over, and over. That day.... being Groundhog's Day. One day he would steal the groundhog and kill it as well as himself.
It's an interesting movie and I'm not much of a Bill Murray/Chris Elliot fan, but I enjoyed it. They used fake and real Groundhog's for the movie, one of them biting Bill Murray in the truck stealing scene.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, right near Pittsburgh, would be the most celebrated festival of Groundhog's Day since the 1880's. Even the Movie (some scones taking place in Chicago) would focus on that city as well.
It might have been started up by a Newspaper columnists back then. History is fuzzy on that one, but they have a museum on all things Groundhog's Day.
Should the Groundhog be replaced by a cake? The same cake you would get at a gender reveal party. I don't think so. I feel the Groundhog is only doing this once a year, so I think he's pretty safe; and handled cearefully.
Besides....it would be more boring to have a cake predict the future of our weather. The groundhog isn't good at it either, but it's not a bad thing. Till then, we have to deal with six more weeks of cold. But I think we'll be fine. Happy Groundhog's Day!
