Who's up for hibernation?

Anyone else feel like January lasted longer than 31 days? This past week was eleven days long, I swear.
 
Someone needs to reorganize the calendar. Making January one of the long months was just plain mean. Unconscionable.
 
Not only are we coming down from the high of holiday festivities, we’re expected to ring in the New Year with resolutions and similar promises to do better and be better. Only to face thirty-one loooong days in which to castigate ourselves for failing in those resolutions.
 
All of that aside, moving the calendar labels around won’t make a bit of difference. The weather will be lousy regardless of the name or number you ascribe to the day. January 15th or Febtember 1st, it’ll be cold with a 60% chance of flurries, a high of -3C falling to -11C overnight, and I’ll still eat more cookies than I should.
 
Yesterday was Ground Hog Day, as I’m sure you were all made aware by round the clock coverage of what Phil did when he was yanked unceremoniously from his cozy den. For us here in Nova Scotia, we have our own ground squirrel, Shubenacadie Sam, to make the seasonal prediction. Based on what he encountered yesterday, we can look forward to six more weeks of winter. Well, of course we can, it’s only the start of February. We’ll have winter until April at least. Harrumph. Grumble, grumble, grumble.
 
But who can stay crabby when looking at this cheeky fellow?

Time for a lovely cup of hot cocoa to chase away the chills. What do you drink as a warming pick-me-up?
 
Photo by Hosea Georgeson on Unsplash

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