File photo of 'Augusta Al.'
'Augusta Al' must have slept in. Either that or he became the victim of my neighbor's pistol practice and I wasn't aware of his demise. This past Summer I would awaken in the backyard hammock to his steely rodent gaze. He was a big groundhog.
This morning I walked up the hill to see if Al had stirred yesterday. There was no way he could have seen his shadow anyway but I wanted to know. I walked up the trail to the woods and came to the place where Al's hole was... the snow covered the ankle-snapping apeture with a smooth white blanket. Al had indeed slept in.
There were plenty of deer tracks and their little beds in the snow but not a sign of marmot activity.
So I'll have to go with the six weeks of Winter theory put out by others. You can only trust a climate expert like 'Al' with a reasonable dose of skepticism.
3 comments:
I love this and the picture is priceless! Very funny stuff.
Hey what did Punxatawney Phil ever do to you to deserve such a defaming. Besides I'm starting to think the average woodchuck is smarter and has more common sense then Al ever did.
Ah, but we're talking about mutant rodents when Al is involved. At least Phil makes the attempt to see his shadow. Al doesn't want to see his shadow... he probably thinks he doesn't have one... not your average woodchuck.
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