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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 15:23:12 GMT
Today is Groundhog Day here and Candlemas elsewhere. How fitting.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2009 15:37:38 GMT
This day always confused me as a child, coming as it does before the feast day of St. Blaise, when throats are blessed with crossed candles.
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Post by palesa on Feb 2, 2009 15:40:44 GMT
So, you are in for 6 more weeks of winter? Is that good or bad, and when does winter normally end?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 15:56:05 GMT
My calendar says "Prés. du Seigneur" and I have no idea what that means. "Seigneur" is "Lord" but "Prés."? Presidency? Presence? Presentatation?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 16:13:43 GMT
the Presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple. Also,commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2009 16:18:52 GMT
As for winter here in NOLA we don't really have a TRUE winter as in the sense of a long season. Here it's just a matter of which front blows it's way up,down. The snow I mentioned in January,the next day it was 75F. It's always been that way and does not seem to be an effect of the so called global warming.
(testing edit feature)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2010 10:45:05 GMT
Deja vu.... How strange to be posting this one whole year later.... I am waiting to hear on the radio whether or not the groundhog saw his shadow or not...it's still a little too early here yet...sun is not up in Pennsylvania.Will keep y'all posted.
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Post by bjd on Feb 2, 2010 10:54:07 GMT
It's a bit strange to guess the weather in any part of the States depending on a groundhog in Pennsylvania, isn't it?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2010 11:08:27 GMT
It's a bit strange to guess the weather in any part of the States depending on a groundhog in Pennsylvania, isn't it? Is very strange indeed,and I strongly suspect is more folk lore,traditional nonsense (in this case) than anything else.People in the cold regions of the US seem to be easily amused after being holed up for months.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2010 12:23:28 GMT
Now I'm wondering if a groundhog has any relation to a hog. I doubt it.
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Post by suzanneschuelke on Feb 2, 2010 17:00:29 GMT
I doubt it too. We have the opposite here from New Orleans. I always think the groundhog lives somewhere warmer than Detroit - there really is no doubt we have six more weeks of winter.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 2, 2010 17:10:40 GMT
C'est une marmotte en français.
I dunno, Suzanne. I had my bicycle out early in March in 2009, and Montréal has considerably harder winters than Detroit. Some areas of Southern Ontario not far from you have had practically no snow whatsoever this year (and even we've had very little).
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Post by hwinpp on Feb 3, 2010 7:01:24 GMT
I think groundhogs are related to rats and mice and rabbits and marmots. What is that group of animals called in English?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2010 7:33:16 GMT
Rodents
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Post by hwinpp on Feb 3, 2010 8:17:01 GMT
Yep. I remembered that just before clicking for your answer
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Post by existentialcrisis on Feb 3, 2010 9:18:36 GMT
No matter what the groundhog does, I've heard that Calgary only gets 2 months of summer. And that it has been known to snow in the summer
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2010 10:42:03 GMT
No matter what the groundhog does, I've heard that Calgary only gets 2 months of summer. And that it has been known to snow in the summer The direct opposite occurs here,we only get two months of winter here, if that,a brief spring, and then come May,summer until October...
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Post by livaco on Feb 3, 2010 13:36:49 GMT
It's a bit strange to guess the weather in any part of the States depending on a groundhog in Pennsylvania, isn't it? Is very strange indeed,and I strongly suspect is more folk lore,traditional nonsense (in this case) than anything else.People in the cold regions of the US seem to be easily amused after being holed up for months. Not all of us in cold regions! I personally get very annoyed at Groundhog Day. I am a Science teacher, and every year I get kids who ask me in all seriousness if the prediction is true, because they saw it on the tv news. And other teachers in this school waste valuable time having kids cut out construction paper groundhogs, and writing groundhog poems, and other such nonsense when the students have real science concepts they need to learn. Not that I think it is bad to learn about myths/legends but this one is overblown. And the little kids are not always getting that it is, as casimira says, "traditional nonsense"...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2010 13:44:52 GMT
Horrors, the thought of groundhog poems.... no, I refuse to do a net search....
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Post by lola on Feb 3, 2010 15:44:00 GMT
Is very strange indeed,and I strongly suspect is more folk lore,traditional nonsense (in this case) than anything else.People in the cold regions of the US seem to be easily amused after being holed up for months. Not all of us in cold regions! I personally get very annoyed at Groundhog Day. I am a Science teacher, and every year I get kids who ask me in all seriousness if the prediction is true, because they saw it on the tv news. And other teachers in this school waste valuable time having kids cut out construction paper groundhogs, and writing groundhog poems, and other such nonsense when the students have real science concepts they need to learn. Not that I think it is bad to learn about myths/legends but this one is overblown. And the little kids are not always getting that it is, as casimira says, "traditional nonsense"... Right on, livaco. We were at the zoo one year on Feb. 2 and noticed a group of people with TV cameras surrounding what turned out to be a groundhog in a box. Another Made For TV event to amuse the masses and provide employment for camera crews
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Post by suzanneschuelke on Feb 3, 2010 19:10:07 GMT
Lagatta - Montreal does have harsher winters than Detroit - but it isn't just snow. We haven't had a snowy winter, but when it is 0 F it is winter; snow or not.
When you had your bike out last year; did it snow or get extremely cold later in the month? We always get snippets of spring in late February or early March - but they never last.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2013 14:21:23 GMT
Here we are again today, this silly "holiday". (I started this silly thread in 2009, likely one of the earlier threads on this board). Anyway, appparently 'Phil' the Groundhog did not see his shadow this a.m. when her peeped out, therefore, an early Springtime prediction!! Yay!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2013 15:04:18 GMT
I've lived here too long, since my automatic thought on noting that it's February 2 was "it's Village People Jesus day!"
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2014 16:28:07 GMT
"Punxsutawney Phil" saw his shadow this a.m.
6 more weeks of winter being the alleged prediction....
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Post by htmb on Feb 2, 2014 16:35:09 GMT
This day always confused me as a child, coming as it does before the feast day of St. Blaise, when throats are blessed with crossed candles. I could do with a little blessing from St. Blaise.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 2, 2014 18:24:06 GMT
Awww, still plagued with the sore throat?
I just came from my local market. They're going to have Mass there in an hour. The sign says to be sure to bring your Niño Dios. There were already a few in evidence & a man told me there will be many, many more. Photo op!
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Post by htmb on Feb 2, 2014 18:43:58 GMT
Mass at the local market? Wonder why Publix hasn't thought of that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2014 19:12:24 GMT
I don't know if any of you remember, but when I made my report about the photos from around the world exposed this summer along the Quai Branly in Paris, I discovered that mass seems to be held in all of the shopping malls of the Philippines.
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Post by mich64 on Feb 2, 2014 20:13:31 GMT
There is usually no doubt that there is still 6 weeks left of winter for our area on Ground Hog Day. What I do celebrate is that there will be sporadic days of spring to enjoy coming very soon and that the worst is generally over.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 3, 2014 3:13:36 GMT
Casimira started this thread exactly five years ago today! How fitting. Y'all forget that rodent & his gloomy prognostication for a moment & go look at pictures of sunny Mexico in the updated Candelaria thread.
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