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Warning
A few years ago, while driving through the Maryland countryside, I committed vehicular manslaughter rodentslaughter. Yes, I accidentally ran over a baby groundhog. As I felt the thump of its tiny body being crushed beneath the wheels of my SUV, I felt sorrow – grief even, at this senseless loss of life. A shadow was cast upon my heart.
This morning, when Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, my shadow was lifted. No more will I mourn the loss of that overgrown rat. And to all groundhogs everywhere, but most especially to Phil, I say: watch out when crossing the road.
Phil’s official forecast as read February 2nd, 2009 at sunrise at Gobbler’s Knob:
Hear Ye Hear Ye Hear Ye
On Gobbler’s Knob on this glorious Groundhog Day, February 2nd, 2010, Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators awoke to the call of President Bill Deeley and greeted his handlers, John Griffiths and Ben Hughes.
After casting a joyful eye towards thousands of his faithful followers, Phil proclaimed, “If you want to know next, you must read my text. As the sky shines bright above me, my shadow I see beside me. So six more weeks of winter it will be.”
P.S. from Newt: Boo! I wish Phil was blind!
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I have recently had a bad road kill experience myself. When we were in SD last year it was amazing how many pheasants there were…. everywhere. Flying across roads, on the sides of roads. I couldn’t believe it. Some how I made it a whole month there without killing anything. Then, on the drive back to RI I not only whacked a pheasant as it walked across the road (man, the tire FLUNG it to the other side of the road hard!) but I also killed a bird as it flew right in front of my car. On the same drive, 2 incidents. I hated the feeling, but what could I do??
I used to live near Punxsutawney while in HS and it was pretty much every teenage boys mission to run over as many groundhogs as possible. ewwww. They are everywhere. Oh, and the town is a bit creepy with EVERYTHING named after Phil.
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Your blog, love story and family are adorable! I’ve attended a class of yours too at a RS Conference and you did a great job!
That was absolutely hilarious. Thanks for the chuckle. Beth