Day 23: Me and my shadow

Come out of your box and tell me, "Can you see your shadow?"

Here is Exile #3 and Exile #4 enjoying one of the boxes from our finally-arrived airfreight shipment. Exile #4 did soon after emerge from the box and did not see her shadow. What that means about the weather is anyone's guess because we were inside. However, it was snowing at the time and covering the recently finally-snow-clear ground with another covering.

All this is just a very unsubtle hint about the real news of today...it's Groundhog Day. Not the film, but the date. Although this picture shows how close to documentary parts of the film were. Anyway, for the first time since 1999, Punxsutawney Phil, failed to see his shadow today and that means, according to tradition that we will have an early spring. Tell that to the weather - snow on the ground and temperatures dropping close to 0 °F again. Then again, no-one said exactly what early means, nor exactly what will signal the arrival of Spring (except for the equinox that is).