ground hogs day

is a great holiday and not just because it is my birthday, but because it falls exactly between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, that is auspicious, indeed.
It is also one of those spontaneous universal mythology stories..almost every culture has some sort of critter checking on something for this astronomically important day.
For my birthday, I got snow in the holler!!' not a tracking snow, but a fluffy, bird feather scattering snow.