How to celebrate Leap Day

Leap Day!  Should be truly special as it only happens once every four years, but today's sad, spoggy weather doesn't portend well for this being a rippin' fun, leap into life - jump into spring kind of day.

How should we celebrate Leap Day?  Each holiday has its designated decorations, foods and festivities. 

Christmas - turkey and gifts, carols and candles
Valentines Day - flowers, candy, jewelry and hearts
St. Paddy's - green beer and corned beef
Easter - eggs, chocolates and hats

Even the more minor holidays have special ways of celebrating: Robbie Burns Day requires scotch and hagus.

So Leap Day really deserves its own set of celebratory parameters.  Should we be literal and actually have a designated time that everyone leaps?  Perhaps a gathering of observation in Victoria Park - or a central location in your city or town - to have a group leap.

Or should we be more symbolic and everyone think about how he or she will 'leap' into new endeavors and 'leap' out of bad habits or negative relationships.

What kinds of foods symbolize Leap Day?  Frogs legs?  Wiggly, jiggly jello - any kind of kenetic foodstuff would do, I suppose.  Your thoughts?

What are your ideas about observing Leap Day?  I'd love to hear some creative feedback.

I'm ready to leap into spring that's for sure.  This ROCASS has had enough winter!

Oscarizing

Is there any better way to beat those mid-winter blues than watching beautiful, incredibly thin people parade around in clothes worth more than your car?

Oh yeah, I guess anything  . . .

Rodent rage

Well it's three to two - seems Old Man Winter is here to stay for a while longer in Canada or at least your friendly (or not-so-much) neighborhood Groundhog says so.

Here in central Ontario, Wiarton Willie failed to visualize his shadow, as did Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam.

But three others - Alberta’s Balzac Billy, Quebec’s Fred la Marmotte and the lone submission from the other side of the border Punxsutawney Phil - all saw their shadows and ran back inside away from the cold that encompasses us.

Yes, it's been a bit warmer this year than last.  But I don't attribute that to global warming, rather than Mother Nature's admission that we've had several really sucking winters in a row and we deserved a bit of a break this year.

Too bad those damn rodents disagreed.  Here, kitty kitty  . . .