The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for February 17, 2022

This time of year, we in the Phoenix, AZ metro area often wonder what’s that cold, white stuff falling from the sky in other areas.;-D

And November, Dicember, and January too.

Cool it.

Great! Then we could have this miserable weather in March.

Well Gladys, ya’ll could move down south, where the only thing y’all have to worry about are tornadoes & hurricanes!!!

/SHMIRK/

Sure, then we can all hate the long, cold March’s.

Chill out.

In New Zealand 75F in Feb.

It’s bad enough I don’t get a birthday until 2024… now you want to get rid of it altogether…

Close. Brutus didn’t invent the calendar. It was his close ‘friend’ Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, and Octavian Caesar. My proof – guess who July, August and October were named after.

February has a Napoleon complex. That’s why it tries extra hard to have nasty weather.

it got up to 5º C today and the snow is turning into slush. any day now, we’ll be wading around in mud up to our knees…

Cheer up. It’s always coldest just before the March errr dawn.

Watch out for next month. Comes in like a liar and goes out like spam.

somehow, that’s not gonna speed things up… but would it be awesome if it would? :D

Lousy Smarch weather!

Gladys does not understand science and Mother nature. Nothing do with Calendars. Weather was around billion of years before The Sumerians in Mesopotamia made the very first calendar (3100BC), which divided a year into 12 lunar months, each consisting of 29 or 30 days. Holy days were observed on the 7th and 15th of the month.An extra month was added every four years. Some leap year!

They did make it the shortest month

I think February is the born loser of the calendar.

Winter wonderland…..blah..ugh..holy crap!

They did make it as short as they could. :)

12 has always been considered a lucky number in so many early civilizations and that’s how we got our modern 12 month calendar. Rome and St Gregory get the full blame though. 13 months made more sense based on the cycle of the moon but lost out in the worldwide scheme. However, as the saying goes, in every year, as in life, a little rain must fall; or in February’s case, a little/lot of snow. Tough it up girl…..

I heard someone say that every month should be June. But, if that’s what you want, easy going temps, virtually all the time, the Puerto Rico is for you. I don’t know if I could tolerate the high temp at 85 and the low at 65 all the time. But, I’d be willing to try.

Ours isn’t like last years February, yet. I just got the tree the ice and cold killed cut down the day before yesterday…

Besides people keep misspelling it.

Today is my birthday.

The best way to treat February is to spend as much of it as possible in Florida.

Most months were named after Roman gods so it would stand to reason that February was named after the Roman god Februus. But, the word February actually comes from the Roman festival of purification called Februa, during which people were ritually washed. In this case, the god was named after the festival, not the other way around. As Paul Harvey used to say “Now you know the REST of the story”.

February: The Arm Pit of the year.

71 today in the S.F. Bay and not a cloud or raindrop in sight! Not bragging, we need rain and even some snow would be Alright!

One of my Father’s cousins lived in Chicago and each Feb. she moved to one of the tropical Islands. So glad I was raised in No. California.

In the 50’s and raining today in Cleveland.I can see concrete in my driveway again !

Next week Gladys goes back in time to prevent Numa Pompilius from becoming king of Rome and adding January & February to the calendar.

Gladys, you and Brutus need to make some hot cocoa (the real thing, not the junk in the envelopes you mix with hot water), snuggle up on the couch, and put on a movie. Or maybe do a jigsaw puzzle. Or relax with a book. Great cures for the winter blues.