Subj : Today is --- Feb. 2nd
To   : Mike Dippel
From : Rixter
Date : Mon Feb 03 2025 02:03:43

  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.
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