thats it mother nature is a B

[baroil92]

And its worked so far...to keep the riff raff out. Soooo ya, stay away its really really bad!:msp_wink:

 

[angry inch]

It aint the cold.
It aint the snow.
It aint the wind.

It's the whining. And no, I have no desire to live "on the plains". I need mountains and greenery.

Now, are you forced against your will to live there?

How about selling some saws and guns and going on a trip to the sun? We PNWers find that travel helps to keep us happy during the dark months. February is usually when we need it. I drove to CA for a nice fix.

But don't move here. Here it aint the cold, it aint the snow (unless you live in Seattle during a rare snow event) It aint the wind (unless we have another Columbus day storm--think typhoon) It's the newcomers whining about the dampness and darkness of winter.

Now I gotta go skiing or cut the grass.

I really had a good time in Portland over the July 4 week a bunch of years back. And we went to Seattle to get some fish. It’s a nice place. Too many weirdo’s for my taste. Got to have different folks in different parts of the country. This is where I am for now. I guess I wouldn’t call it whining just voicing my dismay it’s been a trying winter. Hell today we had a high of 25 things are looking up.

 

[Skeeter52]

Perfect weather in SW Minnesota..............as long as you don't let it bother you!

 

[Steve NW WI]

I fear summer. It's the time of year all the out of state plates show up. Wisconsin is so nice and peaceful the other 11 months.

 

[deerlakejens]

Dang, the self-propel belt broke on my lawn mower this afternoon and I had to finish by pushing it by hand. The coyotes (I believe) only left feathers behind after my hens just resumed laying. Whine, whine, whine!

 

[slowp]

I fear summer. It's the time of year all the out of state plates show up. Wisconsin is so nice and peaceful the other 11 months.

I enjoyed living in Wisconsin except for that one month. I did the unthinkable and bought an airconditioner.
Got weird looks when I went into Lake Superior to cool off, but I had to do that after a day of work. You have awful humidity. Kayaking was good during that one month too but I needed to learn to roll my boat so I could cool off and I didn't.

Winter was great. The tourists went away, there was a granola (cross country) ski area nearby that I could run up to after work if I got my car shoveled out before dark. I lived close enough that I could walk to the office, so didn't have the car out of the heated garage. The downhill ski area was a bit lacking, but what could you expect? I knew how to dress properly from living on the cold side of our fair state--yes, it usually gets near or below zero in some of the valleys east of the Cascades, so the cold wasn't a problem.

I did miss the mountains. And it just isn't the scenery. When we have a heat wave here, we just head up to a higher elevation and get where the temps are lower. You flatlanders can't do that. Sometimes we even strap a pack on our backs and.....hike.:msp_ohmy:

 

[timberland ts]

I thought flatlanders was only a term we used. Yup the mountains are nice. Ive lived in the north south east and west every place had its ups and downs. I like the seasons so ive made home up here. In a couple mths. Everyone will complain about the heat.

 

[Cheesecutter]

I thought "flat-landers" were from Illinois. That's what the cheddar-heads in Wisconsin call us. LOL

 

[Steve NW WI]

I thought "flat-landers" were from Illinois. That's what the cheddar-heads in Wisconsin call us. LOL

Flatlander is the polite term we use around small children...:censored: Illannoys People, or FIP is the common term.

Some of ya ain't so bad, like most states, the further from tall buildings (grain elevators excepted) you hail from, the better.

 

[Cheesecutter]

We feel the same way about the tall building types. That's why I live out here in the sticks they haven't found yet. Kinda funny how my wife explains we're from the "other" side of the state.