Temps are expected to reach -40f.
And people wonder why I want to leave here for good.
After nearly 19 years of this up here, and over 40 in MN all together, is it really a wonder I'm done with the snow and cold?
I swear I was born into the wrong family sometimes.
I don't know why my parents stayed in MN, even after my dad was laid off.
Mom claims it was that us kids didn't want to move - but man, I'd have given anything my whole life to live in California, Florida, or anywhere warm that my friends would visit on vacation and brag about how awesome it was.
Today was cold enough as it was - just stopping to take photos or tank up on the petrol proved to be too many minutes outside my car, which never really seemed to get warm due to the winds as well. I've worn two shirts - one a fleece jacket, two pairs of pants, wool socks, slippers all day.
I am about to go crawl into my warm flannel-sheeted bed to finish my online business.
Anyway, here are some photos from today's venture out.
I went to meet HH at Gronks in Superior for burgers - OMFG YUM!
I will be revisiting that place for sure!
After lunch I called Columbia and arranged to send the jacket back, and was able to pick it out and the colour too. Black Embossed. Which will go with anything really, and be warmer too.
Signs of cold:
The boats are in port.
Frosty Tip
Lower Chester Creek Falls Frozen
Zoomed
Upper and Lower parts
The Lake
On Snow Settings
Pure Crack - you could literally hear loud cracking of the iceand I watched one of the cracks form.
Lake Steam
More Ice close up
Zoomed out
Notice some of the thinner ice floated off
More steam - wanna go swimmin? Lake's warm! Hahahahaaa
10:35p temp: -14f
I Falls: -24f
12:35am temp: -18f
I Falls: -42f
2:35am temp: -24f
I Falls: -44f
**EDIT**
As of the nightly news 21-1-11 it was announced that I. Falls hit a new record low of -46f.
For Comparison
Where I'd rather be would be here, or ideally here.
A lil after 2a, a warm front came up from Fl and into mah box in the form of the Kev-man and his wii. ;-)
mmm thanks bub, I'll sleep warm.
Exericse:
Nothing.
(Unless you count shivering and tryin to stay warm when I was out of the house today)
Did the meditation though - I'm liking it.
Might look into some online Yoga exercises too.
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