Mike and I lived in Minnesota for 3 years while we did our graduate degrees. Why did the Mayo Clinic have to be somewhere so cold? Why did Mike have to be so smart to get in? Growing up in Southern California, I never could have imagined a place so cold. I remember Christmas Eve I put the sparkling cider out on the porch to "cool" before our dinner party. Thirty minutes later when the guests arrived it was frozen solid. If I left my gym bag in the car over night, frozen shampoo and conditioner. It was crazy. I miss the people there, but not the shoveling, the frozen fingers and toes or chipping ice off my driveway with some sort of ice pick shovel thing. I think the only way they survive there is on a wonderful thing called "Minnesotan Niceness."
My sister-in-law Ann lives in Minnesota. (It was so nice to have family close by while we were there, it was about the only thing that kept us warm.) She said it's been -50 with the wind chill and the snow is so high she can't reach the top of the pile with her shovel. She sent me this video that cracks me up and makes me grateful to be here in Seattle, where it may be gray and wet, but it's not at all frozen. It's actually very green and the sun has been out the last few days. I have to apologize to the environmentally friendly, this video is not at all politically correct.
2 comments:
This blog definitely made me grateful for the snow outside and the warmth that is making it melt as it touches ground!!!
Oh, haven't you heard yet? Now they're calling it'Climate Change'. I'm guessing it's because they (the enivironmental extremists) couldn't account for all the extreme lows we've been having. So they had to fix that and change the name. Convenient, huh?
I remeber when I was a kid in the 70's and 'they' were all concerned about global chilling and the famines and the world was going to end...and here we are, still kickin' it.
:~D
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