I love where I live

Last night I wrote how much I love where I live.

Today I got a list of reasons from Dick Wagner. It made me chuckle and I thought I should share some of them.

I've revised my list to be "You know you're a Yooper when."

1. You consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by.

2. You're proud that your region makes the national news 100 nights a year because Ironwood is the coldest spot in the nation.

3. The Dairy Queen is closed from October through May.

4. You don't think it's strange to be invited to a friends house to take a bath when they call to say, "The Sauna's hot."

5. You have worn shorts and a coat at the same time.

6. Your town has an equal number of bars and churches.

7. You have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.

8. When vacation means going to "Camp" less than 1/2 hour away.

9. You know several people who have hit a deer--more than once--and gutted it on the spot.

10. You often switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.

11.You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, and eat your lunch.

12. People wear camouflage at social events, including weddings.

13. You carry jumper cables in your car and your kids know how to use them, even if they aren't old enough to drive.

14. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

15. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

16. You name all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

17. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your Mountain Ash.

18. Down south means Green Bay.

19. A brat is something you eat.

20. Pasty rhymes with nasty and the best are with rutabaga.

21.You take your Mom out to fish fry every Friday.

22. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

23.You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

24. You drink pop and bake with soda.

25. You can actually drink Vernors without coughing.

26. You know that UP is a place, not a direction.

27. You know enough friends to rock a pickup out of the snowbank.

28. You nay not be able to spell it, but you know how to play euchre.

29. A significant amount of your cold weather wardrobe is orange.

30. And finally, you wouldn't want to live anywhere else.