As a kid, I wondered about the predictive capabilities of groundhogs. Perhaps it says something about the shallowness of my nature that, unlike the groundhog, I assumed a bright sunny day to be a harbinger of spring, not the harsh sentence of 6 more weeks or winter.
This morning as I walked Cammy and contemplated the shadows we were casting on the headstones of Old Quechee Cemetery, I wondered again about the science of groundhog day. It is a bright, clear, cold day.
… but I decided to go back to just pointless, incessant barking,” says one dog to another in the New Yorker cartoon.
I haven’t been blogging much because I’ve been doing most of my pointless, incessant barking at Dave. It has been a tough month and I haven’t wanted to dwell in writing on what are mostly minor problems in the grand scheme of things.
And here it is just about February. I’ve always held that February is the longest month because it falls at that point when it seems as if winter will go on forever. Since our winter weather didn’t start until quite late this year, I am hoping February will not be the usual long trudge across Siberia.
In the meantime, I promised Jared I would publish a link to the videos he recorded at the Tuesday night Acoustic Coalition at Marshland Farm. Come in from the cold and sit by the fire with us for a while.
Shortly after the last post, it became quite clear that I had just one big rock in the jar right now and it is called work. After working pretty hard for a couple of weeks, we took off for Albuquerque and KlubFest 2007.
For the uninitiated, “Klub” (pronounced “klooooooobe”) is a potato dumpling cooked in ham broth. This is a shot of Dave and two of his sisters discussing the proper ratio of shredded potato to flour. Making (and eating) Klub is a Norwegian tradition passed down to Dave and his siblings by their mom.
The best part about KlubFest 2007 was spending time with family. Visiting Albuquerque and Santa Fe for the first time was an added bonus. And the Klub was pretty good, too.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man
