Last Wednesday at 2pm the schools announced they would be closed on Thursday in anticipation of another snowy/icy day that never materialized. With the temperature in the twenties on Friday morning, the schools delayed 2 hours until mother nature made a more comfy learning environment.
So it was with great excitment on Friday morning, that I was looking for good news from Phil that life would return to normal sometime sooner than six weeks. Local news coverage promised to cut away to Punxsutawney (home of the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center, slogan: "If you're going to earmark tax dollars, it might as well come here!"), but the main focus was closer to home coverage of Lil'Bit. Lil'Bit is the pot-bellied pig prognosticator of Lexington, NC, a stone's throw from Winston Salem.
Here are articles:
http://www.salisburypost.com/ncrc/302680242474390.php
http://www.newsandrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/NEWSREC0101/70202023/-1/NEWSREC0201
By the way, the pig also forecast the Bears to win the superbowl, but I'm sure emotion probably got in the way on that decision. We all know which animal supplies a pigskin, but does the pig know this?
Needless to say, I had never dreamed that something as fun as this was so close, and I assure you that next year I'll provide first hand account of the festivities along with pictures. Marcey was less than happy about having the girls stay home and did not share my enthusiasm for the pig. Otherwise, she's doing a fine job coming to grips with what to expect living here and living with me.
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My kids will be extremely jealous. We get 2 hour delays when it is close to 0 because the buses are hard to start. In the 20's they might as well have a separate winter schedule. We just missed 2 days for our winter storm (ours was very mild for a storm). This was John's wish because Monday was a holiday/snowday and he had a training to which he had to go. Now everyone will be at school while he is at his training so the world is good.
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