Today’s Chat, No Set Topic

Thanks Phyl and Sandi thank you for the pic and info. I’d never actually seen a groundhog before.

NOW …

🙁 What I want to know is which of our loveable Aussie wildlife creatures is responsible for this!! Prognosticators!!

Temperature records will be shattered in February for southern Queensland, the Bureau of Meteorology has said.

My bet is the little black ants, they’ve deserted my place for the first time in 10 years.

Interesting Sandi and RnR. How did those little critters get connected to the saying “Groundhogs Day” which means going around and around in the same circle?

Do you think we could have a holiday in their honour RnR  ??

Animals always have an instinct over things.  Dogs always know when there’s going to be thunder and lightening long before we humans do and birds disappear as well.

I think they are better predictors than our present day weathermen.

From the movie I think Robi.

Based on the creative idea … an arrogant Pittsburgh TV weatherman who, during an assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, finds himself in a time loop, repeating the same day again and again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29

A great concept IMO and I always equate Groundhog Day with repetition, rather than its traditional associations.

Thanks RnR, I really enjoyed that movie but never knew that the saying originated with it. Always thought the saying came first. Not many movies create a whole new saying in such popular use, in fact I can’t think of any.

🙂 Sandi. I would like to declare February 2 “Aussie Ant Day” in honour of those gone by (this topic), meteorological predictive excellence extraordinaire, strategic invasion techniques that make Sun Tzu look like an amateur and plain bloody irritation techniques that put midges to shame. 

Groundhogs are also called woodchucks (Canada)  and whistlepigs.

Up North they say “a bunch of woodchucks live there” meaning

North country white trash. Origin: alcoholics who planned to build their own homes but never got past the basement where they live out the rest of their lives.

My aren’t we learning a lot today.

Apparently Canada celebrates as well.

As long as they stay away for you.  You can celebrate and have a day off every year.

Unfortunately I can’t do that as I have every day off – like Groundhogs every day the same.

Hmmm I’m sceptical too Phyl. Let us know how they turn out.

I am amazed as the Bics. are quite eatable and oh SO good for us.

I put a bit of marmalade on a couple for Peter and I and quite morish.

I am going to make a second few, using raw oat muesli and a large ripe banana.

Good to help lower cholesterol?

btw I made them in the ‘Air Fryer’ SO easy.

Bananas, eaten in moderation, will more likely help than harm your cholesterol levels. They provide a good source of dietary fiber, which can help reduce your low-density lipoprotein – LDL or “bad” cholesterol. The potassium in bananas can also help lower your blood pressure, which may, in turn, lower your cholesterol.

Hmmm I’m still sceptical Phyl – “quite eatable” is not the same thing as “beautiful”, “yummy”, “delicious”.

The Mundine thread was removed too. Also Barak’s latest thread on Trump. I was trying to post a comment on it but it wouldn’t go. Was Mussitate banned too?

I just found my own answer – yes he was.

That’s nearly all the men gone in one fell swoop.Yes I realised after I posted that Mussi was gone too Robi.

The whole thing just disappeared.  I thought my computer had gone for a few seconds.