Southerner Moves to Minnesota

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December 8: 6:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses print. So romantic we felt like newlyweds again. I love snow!

December 9: We woke to a beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering every inch of the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Can there be a more lovely place in the Whole World? Moving here was the best idea I've ever had. Shoveled snow for the first time in years and felt like a boy again. I did both our driveway and the sidewalks. This afternoon the snowplow came along and covered up the sidewalks and closed in the driveway, so I got to shovel again. What a perfect life.

December 12: The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Such a disappointment. My neighbor tells me not to worry, we'll definitely have a white Christmas. No snow on Christmas would be awful! Bob says we'll have so much snow by the end of winter, that I'll never want to see snow again. l don't think that's possible. Bob is such a nice man I'm glad he's our neighbor.

December 14: Snow lovely snow! 8" last night. The temperature dropped to -20. The cold makes everything sparkle so. The wind took my breath away, but I warmed up by shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. This is the life! The snowplow came back this afternoon and buried everything again. l didn't realize I would have to do quite this much shoveling, but I'll certainly get back in shape this way. I wish l wouldn't huff and puff so.

December 15: 20 inches forecast. Sold my van and bought a 4x4 Blazer. Bought snow tires for the wife's car and 2 extra shovels. Stocked the freezer. The wife wants a wood stove in case the electricity goes out. I think that's silly. We aren't in Alaska, after all.

December 16: Ice storm this morning. Fell on my *** on the ice in the driveway putting down salt. Hurt like hell. The wife laughed for an hour, which I think was very cruel.

December 17: Still way below freezing. Roads are too icy to go anywhere. Electricity was off for 5 hours. I had to pile the blankets on to stay warm. Nothing to do but stare at the wife and try not to irritate her. Guess I should've bought a wood stove, but won't admit it to her. Lord I hate it when she's right. I can't believe I'm freezing to death in my own living room.

December 20: Electricity's back on, but had another 14" of damn snow last night. More shoveling. Took all day. Damm snowplow came by twice. Tried to find a neighbor kid to shovel, but they said they're too busy playing hockey. I think they're lying. Called the only hardware store around to see about buying a snow blower and they're out. Might have another shipment in March. I think they're lying. Bob says I have to shovel or the city will have it done and bill me. I think he's lying.

December 22: Bob was right about a white Christmas because 13 more inches of the white **** fell today, and it's so cold it probably won't melt till August. Took me 45 minutes to get all dressed up to go out to shovel and then I had to ****. By the time I got undressed, used the restroom and dressed again. I was too tired to shovel. Tried to hire Bob who has a plow on his truck for the rest of the winter; but he says he's too busy. I think the jerk is lying.

December 23: Only 2" of snow today. And it warmed up to 0. The wife wanted me to decorate the front of the house this morning. What is she nuts!!! Why didn't she tell me to do that a month ago? She says she did but I think she's lying.

December 24: 6". Snow packed so hard by snowplow, l broke the shovel. Thought I was having a heart attack. If I ever catch the son of a bitch who drives that snowplow, I'll drag him through the snow by his short hairs. I know he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then he comes down the street at a 100 miles an hour and throws snow all over where I've just been! Tonight the wife wanted me to sing Christmas carols with her and open our presents, but I was busy watching for that goddamn snowplow.

December 25: Merry Christmas. 20 more inches of the !=3D@x@!x!x1 slop tonight. Snowed in. The idea of shoveling makes my blood boil. God I hate the snow! Then the snowplow driver came by asking for a donation and I hit him over the head with my shovel. The wife says I have a bad attitude. I think she's an idiot. If I have to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" one more time, I'm going to kill her.

December 26: Still snowed in. Why the hell did I ever move here? It was all HER idea. She's really getting on my nerves.

December 27: Temperature dropped to -30 and the pipes froze.

December 28: Warmed up to above -50. Still snowed in. THE WITCH is driving me crazy!!!!!

December 29: 10 more inches. Bob says I have to shovel the roof or it could cave in. That's the silliest thing I ever heard. How dumb does he think I am?

December 30: Roof caved in. The snow plow driver is suing me for a million dollars. The wife went home to her mother. 9" predicted.

December 31: Set fire to what's left of the house. No more shoveling.

January 8: I feel so good. I just love those little white pills they keep giving me. Why am I tied to the bed?

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You Know You're From Minnesota If...

You've never met any celebrities.
"Vacation" means going north.
You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
You measure distance in minutes or hours.
Everyone you know has hit a deer with their car.
You can, and have, dressed out a deer with a pocket knife.
Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better."
You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.
Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to town I wanna go with."
If you’re a truck driver, you identify your job as, “I drive truck.”
You carry jumper cables in your car.
You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Down south to you means Iowa.
Snow tires came standard on your car.
People from other states love to hear you say words with O's in them.
You hate the movie Fargo but realize that a lot of your family has that accent.
You know what uff-da means and how to use it properly.
You own an icehouse, snowmobile, and a 4-wheel drive vehicle.
Everyone you know has a cabin.
You consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sit there all day hoping the food will swim by.
You are proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights each year because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation.
You have refused to buy something because it's too "spendy."
Your local Dairy Queen is closed from December through February.
You have no concept of public transportation.
You instinctively walk like a penguin for three months out of the year.
Someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there.
You’ve eaten lutefisk for Christmas dinner.
You know what Mille Lacs is and how to spell it.
You have worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
You have either a pet or a child named "Kirby."
Your town has an equal number of bars and churches.
You have had an entire telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.
You drink POP, not SODA.
Every January, from age 2 to l3, you let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post.
You never had to rewind any part of the movie "Fargo" because you missed some of the dialogue.
You call highways freeways.
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Eh? Slow news day.

PG
 

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I nearly moved there once.....lovely girl...Julie Price....

I lived in Canada for a couple of years, I can tell you about Snow...A winter in Cornerbrook Newfoundland.....

I really miss all the snow! :(
 

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Keith_Beef said:
Minnesota sounds like a great place.

Don't the Olsen twins come from there?


K.

The Olsen twins are from California.

Jessica Lange, Judy Garland, Lonnie Anderson, Winona Ryder, James Arness, "Prince," and of course, Jesse Ventura - are from Minnesota.

I've never met any of them (and wouldn't cross the street to do so).

PG
 

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Minnesota sounds great. I've always fancied visiting one of the northern American states.

You never hear much about them in the UK, you only ever hear about the east coast or the west coast of the USA..

Montana looks good too.

Regards

John
 

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Scytale said:
Minnesota sounds great. I've always fancied visiting one of the northern American states.

You never hear much about them in the UK, you only ever hear about the east coast or the west coast of the USA..

Montana looks good too.

Regards

John

That's all we ever hear about either. :aargh4:

:nutkick:

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Tony said:
I nearly moved there once.....lovely girl...Julie Price....

I lived in Canada for a couple of years, I can tell you about Snow...A winter in Cornerbrook Newfoundland.....

I really miss all the snow! :(

Are you sure you miss the snow Tony...hehe. This is from my niece in St. Johns a couple of weeks ago. Her car is the one on this side of the street, sort of a blurry window is all that was left! I loved the imprint left in the snow from the front door :)

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I could say somethig about ya'll should try it up here in alaska, and that thats a small amount of snow, but we've got a small amount for this late in the year, ~about 2.5 feet, at the most. Thats realy depressing when you consider I can remember years when we would get twice that in a night!

Gary
 

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Ice Tigre said:
I could say somethig about ya'll should try it up here in alaska, and that thats a small amount of snow, but we've got a small amount for this late in the year, ~about 2.5 feet, at the most. Thats realy depressing when you consider I can remember years when we would get twice that in a night!

Gary

Worked in the SE for a few years when I was younger. Largest snow I saw brought the level up to 12 feet. Had to climb out a second story window and dig out the front (outward opening) door. Had to dig tunnels between buildings. Much of it melted in a few days though.

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Tony said:
I nearly moved there once.....lovely girl...Julie Price....

I lived in Canada for a couple of years, I can tell you about Snow...A winter in Cornerbrook Newfoundland.....

I really miss all the snow! :(

Tone . . . (and all you others)

I'm not a native, but I do love Minnesota. There's not nearly as much snow here as in a lot of other places, though.

Other famous people from Minnesota: Al Franken (I saw him at a Twins game last summer . . . true story), Bob Dylan, F. Scott Fitzgerald . . . must be others I'm not thinking of right now. . . .

Yeah, I just put the food that won't fit in the freezer outside the kitchen door on the patio.

Come visit any time!

The lovely Julie Price :)
 

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Sounds like you have nine month of snow, followed by three month of very poor sledging. :)
Dont get me wrong, but I could never understand why any emmigrant, having made it all the way from the east coast, would bother to stop and settle in Iowa, N/S Dakota, Minnesota or somewhere else inhabitable instead of pushing forward to the Pacific :confused:
 

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