Thinking of the cold got me thinking of growing up in Wisconsin of course. Then I remembered Jeff Foxworthy's Wisconsinsite joke (what is funny is that it is true! :O) :

You know you are a Wisconsonsite if:

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on
the highway.

2. "Vacation" means going up north past Hwy 8 for the weekend.

3. You measure distance in hours.

4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.

5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.

6. Your whole family wears Packer Green to church on Sunday.

7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard,
without flinching.

8. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including
weddings and funerals ).

9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked.

10. You think of the major food groups as beer, fish, and venison.

11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend
knows how to use them.

12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Mill's Fleet
Farm at any given time.

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

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

15. You refer to the Packers as "we."

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

17. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

18. You have no problem pronouncing Lac Du Flambeau.

19. You consider Minneapolis exotic.

20. You know how to polka.

21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your
blue spruce.

22. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

23. Down South to you means Illinois .

24. A brat is something you eat.

25. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.

26. You go out to fish fry every Friday.

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

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

29. You find minus twenty degrees "a little chilly."

30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all
your Wisconsin friends.

What's especially funny about the list is not so much the humourous redneck items (although they are all true for many Wisconsinites) but that some of my relatives live(d) on the Lac du Flambeau Reservation. That is why many of my relatives sent me this list when it came out or started circling the web.

Just had to add that many of our family get togethers were at Club 23 near Wisconsin Dells. Great home-style food back then. Of course, like most restaurants when I was young, it was primarily a bar!