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It's time for hogging some BS! :
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Feb 2 2025, 3:01pm
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It's time for hogging some BS!
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In the U.S., February 2nd is Groundhog Day and the anticipation of "weather" or not Puxsutawney Phil will see his shadow! If the sun is shining and he sees his shadow, there are 6 more weeks of cold winter. If there's no shadow, we should be having an early Spring! OH THE DRAMA! Any clue of how much longer we'll have winter weather helps. I also use it as a mark of the half-way point of these cold months. All eyes are turned to Pennsylvania and his prediction. Although several other regions/states have their own groundhog predictors.
Here in Michigan, we call groundhogs "woodchucks". They are also known as marmots, mouse bears, and whistle pigs. Our fuzzy representative is named Woody the Woodchuck. On this Michigan morning, hope is renewed with the heavy overcast surrounding my home blocking any sunshine and shadows! *tosses confetti* So Spring should be here sooner than later :D
Here are some Book Spoilers that discuss the Celebrity of the Day... though really it's his badgering cousin... for a moment of Tolkien-zen.
From A Long-Expected Party: The Fellowship of the Ring ... "'Well yes--and no. Now it comes to it, I don't like parting with it at all, I may say. And I don't really see why I should. Why do you want me to?' he asked, and a curious change came over his voice. It was sharp with suspicion and annoyance. 'You are always badgering me about my ring; but you have never bothered me about the other things that I got on my journey.'
... 'No, but I had to badger you,' said Gandalf. 'I wanted the truth. It was important. Magic rings are--well, magical; and they are rare and curious.'"
From In the House of Tom Bombadil: The Fellowship of the Ring ... "Frodo looked at it closely, and rather suspiciously (like one who has lent a trinket to a juggler). It was the same Ring, or looked the same and weighed the same: for that Ring had always seemed to Frodo to weigh strangely heavy in the hand. But something prompted him to make sure. He was perhaps a trifle annoyed with Tom for seeming to make so light of what even Gandalf thought so perilously important. He waited for an opportunity when the talk was going again, and Tom was telling an absurd story about badgers and their queer ways—then he slipped the Ring on."
From A Journey in the Dark: The Fellowship of the Ring ... "'There must have been a mighty crowd of dwarves here at one time,' said Sam; 'and every one of them busier than badgers for five hundred years to make all this, and most in hard rock too!'"
From Helm's Deep: The Two Towers ... "'Do not judge the counsel of Gandalf, until all is over, lord,' said Aragorn.
... 'The end will not be long,' said the king. 'But I will not end here, taken like an old badger in a trap. Snowmane and Hasufel and the horses of my guard are in the inner court. When dawn comes, I will bid men sound Helm's horn, and I will ride forth. Will you ride with me then son of Arathorn? Maybe we shall cleave a road, or make such an end as will be worth a song—if any be left to sing of us hereafter.'"
We have been there and back again.
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(This post was edited by grammaboodawg on Feb 2 2025, 3:10pm)
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