He's a Big Pig, You Can Be a Big Pig too. . .

When I told Strombeek I required some Groundhog Day assistance, I think she imagined something along the lines of this.

What Strombeek didn't realize is that she much more closely resembles the groundhog, aka the whistle pig, in all its pudgy glory than Punxsutawny Phil's handler.

She seemed shocked to discover she'd be the prognosticator.

With the two pounds she packed on since her last vet visit (15% of her former body weight!) her girth was now whistle pig perfect.

So early Groundhog Day morning, Strombeek searched for her shadow.

It has been determined!                                                                               

 

And here she makes her statement of the obvious--that she did not see her shadow. (Expletives removed)

Yet somehow Punxsutawny Phil did manage to see his shadow and pronounced another six weeks of winter!

Still, my hat off to Hey Sailor! Hats for the dandy topper

that doubled oh so nicely as a whistle pig handler hat--and that aided in a more perfect prognostication than that of the Punxsutawny pig.