Subj : Today is --- Feb. 2nd
To   : All
From : Mike Dippel
Date : Sun Feb 02 2025 21:21:38

Today is Candlemas Day - important in the lives of farmer s in Europe. An old English song 
went as follows:

"If Candlemas be fair and bright, / Come, Winter, have another flight. / If Candlemas 
brings clouds and rain, / Go, Winter, and come not again."

In other words, the farmers believed that the end of winter could be predicted as being the 
exact opposite of whatever the weather was like on Candlemas Day.  In 1887, German 
immigrants in Pennsylvania adopted the practice of looking for the shadow of a large 
hibernating rodent at sunrise on February 2nd to determine how much longer winter would 
remain, replacing Candlemas Day with ÿ Groundhog Day!  Happy Groundhog Day!

Mike Dippel
 
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