“Predicting the weather, that’s my song. For 133 years, I’ve never been wrong. So is it early spring or more winter forecast? Stop the music. Here is my forecast: Faithful followers, there is no shadow of me, a beautiful spring it shall be.”

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Hi, everybody. Hope you’re doing well. Things are (going) pretty well here other than I have a sore throat, so I apologize in advance if my voice sounds a little funny. My family and I decided to spend the month of January in Florida, the idea being that Lucas can kick off his music career in the US by writing with Spanish-speaking songwriters. It’s been pretty interesting here so far other than all of us getting sick, but I’ll definitely talk about that a little bit more in a future episode.

For today, we’ll be talking a little bit about the expression to put someone on a pedestal. We’ll do some pronunciation exercises and we’ll talk about Groundhog’s Day, which is a goofy and very popular tradition in the US and Canada every year on February 2nd. At the event, a groundhog informs the public whether winter will continue or whether spring will come early.