Paxutony Phil. A name that will be forever embedded into my brain on February 2nd. I don't know whether it was the fact that I have lived in Pennsylvania my entire life and Phil also lives in PA (for all those not good with geography, Paxutony is a town in PA), or the fact that I really like spring and look forward to the shadow -- Phil means something to me. One thing though, I will never ever remember if it is a good sign that Phil sees his shadow or a bad sign. Do you think Mother Nature is Phil's mom? (kidding). People love groundhog day, I know many people who travel far just to see Phil pop up outta the hole. I would bet people also camp out or even tailgate this event.
My big question is - how old is Phil??? And is it really the same groundhog every year? Where does it go every other day of the year? How do they find him? Do you think they give him a bath the day before his big show? Do you think they feed him? What do groundhogs even eat? Who can answer these questions for me?
One time I was flying from Philly to Pittsburgh on February 2nd, and the airline was extremely generous that day and gave all the guests special groundhog beanie babies for our trip. It was so nice. Maybe it was because we were flying from one PA city to another, or maybe they just love groundhog day. Either way, we got a beanie baby and it was the bomb-digity.
Happy groundhog day!!! Here's to hoping for an early Spring! .... which if you live on the east coast, you know that Spring already came in January.
I would like to know the answer to these questions as well. Groundhog day was never very important in California. We always knew about the groundhog but I never knew he had a name or where he actually resided.
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