Hi everyone, I hope you are having a good day. I am doing okay and just trying to recover from all the groundhog's day festivities. Having a pet guinea pig means that you end up being the one to host most of the celebrations like posting a photo on facebook. Anyway Groundhog's Day is a nice low pressure holiday that doesn't usually hurt people, much like groundhogs themselves. Around Thanksgiving and Christmas, and New Years, and especially Valentine's Day, people often get depressed. And there are pressures to get everyone a present or show up at parties or go along with whatever social stresses there are. But with Groundhog's Day, you just have a conversation or two about whether the groudhog saw his shadow, and then everyone knows that it does not affect anything. Not even six months of winter.
I actually think there is some untapped potential with Groundhog's Day. Like for people to have a low key celebration of some kind, or just to shirk some responsibilities because of a holiday. One cool tradition could be for people to actually hide a groundhog in each other's apartments or homes every year. So people instead of just wondering that morning if one random groundhog will see his shadow, they will know they might end up finding an unexpected new pet that will need feeding and care for several years. Or at least until the next year when they hide the groundhog in someone else's house. Guinea Pigs could be close enough for this new tradition, or giant capybaras, like the Thanksgiving Capybara pictured here:
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