With the news that Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is slashing jobs in order to help balance the state budget, one wonders whether our own Buckeye Chuck -- Ohio's official weather-predicting groundhog -- will still have a job a year from today.
BTW, Buckeye Chuck saw no shadow this morning and is predicting an early spring instead of six more weeks of winter. Our warm winter hopefully will be ending a little early, according to the furry weathercaster, who was pulled from his cage in Marion, Ohio this morning to give the official forecast. Under cloudy skies, and before a crowd of about 200 people eating spam sandwiches and drinking hot chocolate, the groundhog emerged at 7:42 am. Buckeye Chuck's handlers report he looked around, but did not see his shadow.
We hope you are with us for a forecast next year, Chuck!
Note: The inspiration for this post is from Breda, who notes that "the human longing for the warmth of the sun is ancient and universal."
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