Today is December 1, 2020. So what? you might ask. Well this is the day my luck is going to change. This morning when I woke I said, “Rabbit rabbit.” Now, I will have good luck for the month.
I first heard this saying years ago when my daughter, grade school at the time, told me that if you say rabbit, rabbit on the first day of the month it will bring you good luck. She said she heard of it on television. I think it was Pee Wee Herman’s Playhouse, a Saturday morning show.
Dictionary.com reports, “…the phrase rabbit rabbit is a long-held superstition thought to bring about good luck. But it’s not to be uttered just any old random day. Rather, if you say it on the first day of the month before any other words come out of your mouth, then luck is thought to be coaxed your way. If you get your rabbits in, luck is yours for 30 days … or so goes the folklore.” Even the Farmer’s Almanac states the saying, “can be traced back to a 1909 British periodical called Notes And Queries.”
In the past 30 days I have had two unlucky events occur. One, my fence was broken when underaged drinking teenagers climbed over it as the cops knocked on the neighbor’s door. The kids were having a large, and loud, Halloween party. About 40-50 kids climbed the fence into my backyard and broke the side gate to get out. I just finished the repairs last week. Now, I need to try to get compensated for the expenses.
The second event occurred after the Cameron Peak wildfire restriction was lifted. I drove up to my cabin property to find a large slash pile in my parking area. I am thankful the fire did not reach our area of Glen Haven and I understand the need to put the pile somewhere in the open. That was not the real bad luck event.
This slash pile did not come from my property. I spent the last three years and $800 to clear debris and limbs on my property. The unlucky event came after it took me an hour to move the pile to an out of the way place, thinking no one would be back to get it until spring or summer. However, someone did come back.
The next day they returned and chipped the entire pile onto a grassy area on my property. When I saw this I was livid. The debris covered shrubs I planted for erosion control as well as the grass around my new shed. This once beautiful area is now buried in 3-4 inches of cedar and pine tree bark and needles. All I could see was more restoration work. This should not have been my work to do.
I contacted the county Office of Emergency Management and they said they were sorry but there was nothing they could do about it.
So, today starts a new month and better luck; I hope and pray. Rabbit rabbit.