Yup. I’m 60 years old. Spent the first 35 in North Dakota, the rest here in Minnesota.
Every damn year it gets cold in the winter. EVERY DAMN YEAR.
And in the summer ( you won’t believe this ) it gets HOT. Some years hotter than others. Sometimes the summers are a bit cooler.
“...it gets cold in the winter...”
A couple of decades ago I was in the Boundary Waters for a week. When we came out we had breakfast at the “Trail’s End” lodge. The old fellow who runs it told us that he doesn’t stay there in the Winter because of the cold.
He goes “down south” for the winter - to Duluth!
You, sir, know about cold!
Recently here in Florida it got down to 18 degrees a couple nights. That was waaay too cold, I couldn’t tolerate it, got sick, still a little sick right now.
But 18 degrees is amateur cold compared to Minnesota!
Remember when you sat in your house the house snapped and popped from the cold outside?
Or when you walked outside the packed snow squeaked like walking on chalk?
Or your swampers froze stiff from the cold?
Or when you spit, it snapped before it hit the ground?
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