Hey there fine folks of Wiarton, cold enough for ya? Sorry, redundant question, it is February in Wiarton after all. That’s it isn’t it? It’s cold, and the best way to lift your spirits is with, well, with spirits. “Let’s turn it into a festival! Then we could get grant money, write some stuff off and get more spirits!” Hats off to the crew that came up with that idea, it’s brilliant, there is just one problem … we don’t really need Willie himself anymore.
Willie has been a great help over the past however many years, but in this day and age of information technology and never ending consumer consumption, we really don’t need the albino rodent’s prognostication (“Six more weeks of winter, or early spring.”)
To find out what the weather is really going to be like all I have to do is visit any neighborhood Canadian Tire or Home Depot. Sure it may be February but the selection of snow-blowers is almost gone. Hey, but check out that shinny new lawn tractor. Wow! Just what I need … in February.
Willie, whatever it was you said it would be this year, staying winter-like until the 16th of March, or spring arriving – as usual – on the 20th – 21st, its information we can pick up at any area Walmart. Hey, that’s it! How about a “Wiarton Walmart” festival? Do they have one up there?