Subj : RE: Today is --- Feb. 2nd
To   : Rixter
From : Mike Dippel
Date : Mon Feb 03 2025 20:31:40

On 2/3/2025 2:08 AM, Rixter wrote to Mike Dippel:

->   Re: Today is --- Feb. 2nd
->   By: Mike Dippel to All on Sun Feb 02 2025 09:21 pm
-> 
->  > Today is Candlemas Day - important in the lives of farmer s in Europe. An ol
->  > 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 predict
->  > 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
->  > 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
-> remember my Oma and Opa speaking of Candlemas, the ground hogs, and second
-> winter. I had completely forgotten about all of this until you posted this.
-> Thanks.
-> telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23

My pleasure!  This was taken from a Sunday homily of all things.

Mike Dippel
 
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