Groundhog Day and Spring

This from an e-mail I received a few weeks ago:

This year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fell on the same day. As Air America Radio pointed out, "It is an ironic juxtaposition:
One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to a creature of little intelligence for prognostication, and the other involves a groundhog."

March 12th - we heard the frogs down in the marsh for the first time after a weekend of 60+ degree temperatures. This is big... when we hear the frogs, we know Spring is REALLY here. By the next day, however, they dug themselves back into the mud (or wherever they go when it's cold). However, it is officially Spring and the Mountain is crawling with Robins.