GrannyMoon's Blog – February 2012 Archive (2)

There are 12 months in the Gregorian calendar (the current standard calendar for most of the world). A common year consists of 365 calendar days as opposed to a leap year which has 366 days. A Leap Day is added nearly every 4 years to the Gregorian calendar. However, a Leap Day is not added EVERY 4 years - 3 criteria need to be met. For most Leap Years, a popular children's rhyme holds true:



        Thirty days hath September,

        April, June, and November;

       …

It’s Groundhog Day and the furry, kind-of-cute groundhog is in the news.



Groundhogs clearly aren’t related to pigs or hogs—so what exactly are they?



The groundhog (also known as a woodchuck or Eastern Marmot) is actually a large, ground-dwelling rodent and is part of family of ground squirrels known as marmots.



Groundhogs are lowland creatures and are common in the northeastern and central United States, found as far north as eastern…