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Minnesota and My Love

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Minnesota and My Love

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from JoeUser Forums

         I love Minnesota. Let me make that clear. I long for the smell of cold. I crave that silence after a blizzard when the world stops and takes note of the snow-hare. I adore the tracks a hound makes when it trails that same hare. I melt inside to remember the trusting gaze of a doe who knows I hold neither malice nor firearm.

         Those who were not raised in the North might think me crazed but I love Winter.  I enjoy the feeling of being tested every day for my fitness as a scion of the human race.

         I desire that feeling in the morning when you awake in the perimeter of melted snow created solely by your own body heat and ingenuity. I love the evening call of the timber wolf as he looks for the sustenance only made available thorough the sacrifice of the less worthy.

         Even my daughter knows the call that only the deep cold can make. The impulse to warmth that only long exposure to near killing frost can inculcate.

         I love Minnesota. It remains my home.
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think some people are hard wired for the cold weather.


I recall that there was a study that the army did some time ago, where they did a big psychological test on a bunch of people to determine what factors figured in to whether people did well in a cold climate or not. They asked something like a couple hundred questions for a big sample (probably 1000 or so). Then they cross-referenced the answers to evaluations of those people in the field. (I guess that's a big advantage of having thousands of people that you can force to do stuff for you.... )
Out of all their questions, there was exactly ONE question that had a positive, significant correlation between its answer and a person's cold-weather performance.
And that question was: "Do you prefer colder weather?"
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
Minnesota is awesome.
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
It was pretty up there. But it was cold for the summertime. Too cold. 50 degress in July is too much for me. I think I have already said this before, but I am never ever living up there. Trust me, you will like it in Arizona. Its pretty, it snows there, too. Its not hard to breathe once you get used to it and actually its easier to run in the higher altitude (I think).
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

but I still suspect that you are insane...


Not the first time someone has said that.


actually its easier to run in the higher altitude (I think).


There will be no running in Arizona for me Now who's insane?


50 degress in July


It was not 50 degrees....


Minnesota is awesome.


Amen. Now if only I can find some job that pays too much to possibly turn down I can slowly change the Lass's mind.

Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
In July the average high temperature climbs to the upper 70s in northern Minnesota and the lower 80s in the south. It can still be chilly along the shores of Lake Superior.

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I would probably die in Arizona. I thought southern Missouri was too hot.