Spring in the Bing?

North Bingham Norty says to bundle the heck up because this is the Bing!

Friends! 

Hey, I know it's Groundhog Day and there's all sorts of hullabaloo down in Punxsutawney, Peeyay today, on account of Punxsutawney Phil and all his weather-predictin'.  But I bet you didn't know that here in the Bing, we have our own animal weather-guy.

It's true.  Our weather-guy is North Bingham Norty, a plucky and lovable grey-squirrel.  Insteadda givin' false hopes of an early spring like that woodchuck downstate, North Bingham Norty keeps it real.  You'd think people wouldn't like him as much, because he isn't tellin' 'em what they wanna hear, but I'll tell ya what.  I respect North Bingham Norty even more, for his honesty. 

So North Bingham Norty says today that we'd better keep the snowplow attachment on the tractor at least through mid-April.  Because nothing's worse than havin' the mower deck on and all ready to cut grass, and then get a big snow-storm!  You'd better keep your winter boots and ice scraper and portable, folding snow shovel in your vehicle, in case of inclement weather and icy windshields.  Keep a supply of hot cocoa in your kitchen, along with a bagga mini-marshmallows, on accounta hot cocoa makes cold weather thirty to fifty percent less unpleasant.

North Bingham Norty realizes that you'd rather hear that it's gonna be an early spring, but insteadda relyin' on whether or not he sees his shadow like Punxsutawney Phil, North Bingham Norty is all about the science.  He's spent years, poring over weather statistics for the North Bingham Metro Area, including Llake Lloyd, and the surrounding Binghams, and as it turns out, Spring rarely ever turns up here early.  So an early Spring this year is statistically unlikely, and it's better to be prepared for snowy-blowy weather for a while longer.

Sometimes your best friends are the ones who tell ya how it is, insteadda tellin' ya what ya wanna hear, and I think North Bingham Norty is a really good friend. 

It's all gonna be okay, Big People!  It is!  We can survive winter and see Spring in the Bing once more.  It just isn't going to be an early Spring in the Bing. 

I love ya lots, though!  Muah!