Why On Earth

and all things good and holy did some idiot come up with the idea in the dead of Winter, if a groundhog sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of Winter?

Why didn't someone think to rip the rodent from his den in August? The varmint saw his shadow so there will be six more weeks of Summer. More Summer is a much better idea if rodentia must forecast the weather.

And while I'm pouring a glass of whine, even though this year is not a Leap Year, the same thought extends to the calendar. We need to add an extra day to the calendar to resolve the problem of converting from the  Julian to the Gregorian calendar. I know! Let's add a day to February. That way everyone is already freezing their butts off and can have an extra day to freeze. Why didn't they think, let's add a day to July or August? We could have an extra beach day! Or for those of you who whine about the Summer heat, add an extra day at the end of September. I'd take  that over an extra day in February.

Maybe I need to move to Australia, because it's Summer there. Then if a koala sees its shadow, there would be six more weeks of Summer. And an extra day in February would still be Summer Down Under. Yeah, that would work.