Sunday Sweets: Groundhog Day

It's Groundhog Day!

You know what that means:

If this little fella sees his shadow, we'll have six more weeks of Winter.

(By Highland Bakery)

That's right. Six more weeks of swirling flakes,

(By Emma Jayne Cake Design)

sparkling icicles,

(By The Chocolate Strawberry)

meandering drifts,

(By Planet Cake)

and finding new and exciting ways to get to work.

(By Coastal Cake Company)

Maybe some penguins can hitch an iceberg north and visit friends...

(By Not Quite Nigella)

...while the rest of us keep warm with lots of nice, hot cocoa.

(By The Cake GalleryNY)

Still, after the "Polar Vortex -- and no, the cool name does not make up for the COLD temperatures -- I think most of us would be happy if the prognosticating rodent went shadowless this year, ushering in an early spring.

Won't spring be great?

Sure, there'll be April showers,

(By Torte Di Ivana)

but that's how we get May flowers!

(By Sweet and Saucy Shop)

We'll soak up lots of sunlight,

(By Oh Sugar!)

and the woods will be awash with lush new plants,

(By Wild Orchid Baking Company)

drowsy fawns,

(By CakeCentral member Omrani Cakes)

butterflies and ladybugs.

(By Tea Party Cakes)

Ah, bliss...

Tell ya what, Punxsutawney. Why don't you just sleep in this year? We'll let you know what happens.

Sweets dreams.

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Chasing Shadows, Deja Vu The Third

[alarm clock clicking to 6:00 AM]

[Sonny & Cher caterwauling to I Got You, Babe]

Ok, Campers, rise and shine! 'Cuz it's Groundhog Day!

Or, as Brenda here knows it:

"Groad Hogs Day"

Today is the day that we celebrate the.. day...by having this cheeky little fella:

aka "the guy with the crappy back end":

"Did I do that?"

...drive around town with Bill Murray looking for a weather forecaster who has no shadow. Which I think makes the weather forecaster a vampire.

 Ah, American holidays.

Today is also the day when we find out if winter will end soon or not.

 Hm...

 [clickety click click click]

via weather.com three years and 12 hours ago

Yeah. Good luck with that, every-state-but-Florida.

So, unless shadowless weather forecasters are run over by rodent and celebrity driven automobiles, I'd say most of you are due to see a lot more of this:

"Squashed octopodes?"

Er, no. I mean this:

"Blue crabs?"

No, no, no!

THIS:

[crickets chirping]

Oh, never mind.

Happy Grounn Dhog Day, y'all.

Thanks to Brenda M., M.Z., Melissa B., Saundra, Karen C., Jamie, & Kevin H., who would like to remind you to never drive angry. Especially with a quadruped. 

See you tomorrow, campers!