11 Things Every Minnesotan Should Try in 2011.
Now everyone come visit me so we can check some of these puppies off this list.
Showing posts with label cold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold. Show all posts
10 February 2011
To-Do List
11 Things Every Minnesotan Should Try in 2011.
Now everyone come visit me so we can check some of these puppies off this list.
31 January 2011
White Stuff
It snowed again. I have lost count of how many times it has snowed since the first snow, back in November, the one that kept me in the suburbs for an extra night and made me realize I needed new tires before I did anything else.
It's really pretty again, as the new snow has covered up the dark gray mucky slush stuff that everything was transformed into. I put on my galoshes to run the trash out today and didn't lose feeling in my fingers during the 30 seconds it took to complete the task, so that means it's not quite as cold as it was two weeks ago.
Last week was the first time I woke up and thought, "Ok, this is getting a little wearisome." It's still ok, I'm still fine, I'm just more excited to see colors again in a few months than I am for the snow. And they'll come; tomorrow is February, a short month, then in March we get the official start of spring. The colors and warmth will inevitable come, the blooms, the late light, the heat, then in 7 months I'll be writing about how the humidity is getting wearisome and that I'm getting excited to be bundled up and trudging through white stuff.
It's really pretty again, as the new snow has covered up the dark gray mucky slush stuff that everything was transformed into. I put on my galoshes to run the trash out today and didn't lose feeling in my fingers during the 30 seconds it took to complete the task, so that means it's not quite as cold as it was two weeks ago.
Last week was the first time I woke up and thought, "Ok, this is getting a little wearisome." It's still ok, I'm still fine, I'm just more excited to see colors again in a few months than I am for the snow. And they'll come; tomorrow is February, a short month, then in March we get the official start of spring. The colors and warmth will inevitable come, the blooms, the late light, the heat, then in 7 months I'll be writing about how the humidity is getting wearisome and that I'm getting excited to be bundled up and trudging through white stuff.
21 January 2011
Courtesy of Stuff About Minneapolis (I love this guy):
Workers chopping ice along the dam, Falls of St. Anthony, Minneapolis (1899)
Wow, it is going to get cold tonight and tomorrow. What are they saying, -20* to -30* below zero? Yeah it’s going to be mighty chilly walking from your house, into your car, and then into the coffee shop. What will your total outside exposure be? 10 minutes? Sure hope that Columbia Omni-Heat Squall Line Fleece Jacket you have on under your North Face McMurdo Parka keeps you warm.
Do you think these guys with the shovels and pickaxes in this picture complained about chopping ice outside for ten hours in the cold? They probably got paid a quarter an hour and for lunch they sat on the ice and ate a stale biscuit with a piece of pickled bacon. And they probably had to hear slurs all day long about being Irish.
When you pull out your laptop do the people at the coffee shop verbally attack you for your Irish heritage?
Didn’t think so.
Remember your roots Minnesota and get a little tough.
Photo by Minnesota Historical Society
10 December 2010
Minneapolis Freeze
I don't care how cold it is, I'm still falling in love with my new city...
(Via Stuff About Minneapolis and Flickr.)
(Via Stuff About Minneapolis and Flickr.)
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