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It's currently sitting at -10 Fahrenheit, at 6:25pm CST here just southwest of the Twin Cities.... heading for -20 tonight. I can only imagine how cold it is 'up North' one of my favourite Minnesota destinations.

Keep those Rics warm!

Too cold for me, and the kids have cabin fever--school was cancelled yesterday and today, so I'm having trouble finding time to play my Rics....but the kids are really enjoying the Rush DVD's we got last week, so the house is rockin'! Yesterday the windchill index here was 55 below! These are the times I wonder why we live here.... But in our short but glorious summers I never have any doubts! By the way, I didn't know you were from Minnesota.... do you ever make it up here for "Fisherman's Picnic"? It's always over the first weekend in August....

Grand Marais is a favourite spot of ours - we usually come up after Labor Day for a fall break. If I could think of something I could do for a living up there, we'd be very tempted to move.....

Now, time to go and pour a Summit Winter Ale into my Angry Trout Cafe glass

Yesterday the windchill index here was 55 below!

And I thought Detroit was cold! ...

Much better today.... 6 above and no wind; feels like a heat wave compared to the last couple of days!

Still 95 degrees here.....BELOW!!!!

Today is the perfect winter day.... 28 degrees above with light, fluffy snowflakes falling--spent about an hour shoveling the driveway this morning! This is the best winter weather for having fun outdoors, skiing or snowmobiling or whatever.... Now I can say again that I love it here!

Right now in Los Angeles the sun is warm, just a few clouds around and about 63 degrees.
This is one reason I like it here....I used to live in that frozen hell and you can have it.
Of course, no one REALLY lives in LA....

I've only lived in Hawaii and Los Angeles. Hawaii (Oahu)was hot all the time...get out of the shower, sweat, you even sweat when it's raining. And traffic! L.A. is a dirty mess with 100 degree plus summers and chilly winters. But, it sounds better than the snow. Somedays here you can snow ski on Saturday then Sunday go to the beach. Not me though, I'm practicing to be a recluse.

Hawaii.... Now I must confess that that sounds very appealing right now; I have dreamed of vacationing in Hawaii since I was a little kid! But I can't complain....the area I live in is also considered to be a tourist's paradise. Only rarely do we get days that are "hot".... Lake Superior acts like a giant air conditioner and things can get downright chilly really fast if the wind comes off of the big lake....but when it is cool in town it can still be pretty warm just over the hill, so you can still find "summer" if you're looking for it! However, there are a few days in the middle of summer where it actually gets warmer by the lake, and we go inland to cool off--nobody has air conditioning here because it would seldom get used! There are many advantages to living here: No crowds, no traffic (I live a block away from the only stoplight in the whole COUNTY, and it is Minnesota's second largest in geographical area), no smog, and spectacularly beautiful scenery, with all kinds of fun outdoor activities right out the back door.... Hey, this is starting to sound like a tourism brochure--sorry!

Melissa is right, Grand Marais is a spectacularly beautiful place. But the tourism brochures never tell you about the legendary limousine-sized mosquitoes during that short summer.

I have fond memories of my years in Minnesota but I enjoy being back home in Texas. Those years of witches and well diggers alerts took their toll on me.

I spent two weeks in Ames, Iowa in training. The place scared the hell out of me. Looking out to all directions, dead of winter, nothing! Not even a distant mountain! Flat! And a trip down the main street at night, I thought every store was closed, but no, it's just an uncrowded place. That is something I didn't expect to weird out my brain, emptiness. The exotic bar near the college was crowded, however. I heard. Ahem...

Southern Minnesota looks a lot like Iowa....Nothing at all like northern Minnesota, which is mostly birch and pine forest with thousands of beautiful lakes, and on the North Shore where I live, rugged hills and cliffs that meet the shoreline of Lake Superior.... People come here on vacation from southern Minnesota and Iowa to get away from the endless rows of corn! No emptiness here, just lots and lots of trees. Stand still in the woods in winter, and you'll hear nothing but the wind. When there is no wind, it is the sound of absolute silence, the forest asleep for the winter. It is beautiful and inspiring.... A couple of years ago my husband and I were picking blueberries near sunset, and we could hear a pack of wolves howling in the distance, about 8 distinct voices--what an eerie sound! We decided to get out of there when we heard them getting closer, probably within a quarter of a mile....

By the way, Dave, the skeeters only come out at night, unless you're in the middle of a swamp, LOL!

Legend has it that the colder and harder the winter, the fewer mosquitoes there will be the following summer.

Unfortunately, no-one told the mosquitoes in my neighbourhood

Lima weather is boring, in the summer it's alway 80! (now) haha! And the winter low is a blustery 55, Does not rain here, no wind to speak of, they had a freak lighting bolt here about twenty years ago, they all still remember it. No storms (tormentas, now isn't that a great word for storm) at all, nada. Now why was I going back to Ma.? I forgot.