something I am grateful for today

Sorry if you're getting tired of hearing about drawing sutff in these entries, but for me it's a big deal and it does actually elicit gratitude within me, so it does belong here, 'K?

This mornin I was drawing yet another character for this new book, and it turned out so well that I decided to ink it [i.e., turn it into a Good Finished Drawing®]. Mind you, I inked it with a Pigma Micron: since I'm something of a nib snob, part of me feels like that “isn't really inking” ... but I know a lot of cartoonists including pros do their final work with Pigma Microns, and who am I to insult them thus? So let's say that I did really ink it...

Anyhoo, this is the first Good Finished Drawing® I've done in literally years, and it turned out Good! So much so that I regret doing the initial sketch on scratch paper, too bad it wasn't on good white paper so I could really show it. (Maybe I can make a clean scan of it, we'll see...) So: another step forward today in getting my art back!

Groundhog Day

The way I understand it, if the groundhog sees his shadow today, that means six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see it, that means an early spring.

The trouble is, up here, if winter lasted only six more weeks, that would be an early spring! What is the groundhog supposed to do or see, in order to forecast the twelve more weeks of winter that we usually get??!!