All a matter of perspective.

Both of them had grown up in Escanaba in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He had graduated from the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Tech) on the northern side of the Upper Peninsula. They'd both spent some time in the Chicago area and maybe that thinned their blood.

I suspect that it was the poor construction of the mining company town house they lived in - no insulation at all and the only heat was from one fireplace - but it was a pretty constant refrain in grandmother's journal all that first winter.

I hope he doesn't come to Wisconsin.....Rs have killed us all.

until rabid right wing trash got a hold on it

By the time you are in high school, you can expect much warmer winters.

(Actually, I am being facetious. Climate change is more complex than colder places getting a bit warmer).

I grew up in northern Virginia, on the shore of a small lake. When I was a child, I learned to ice skate on that lake, and we could walk across it (quarter mile, maybe) every winter. That hasn't been possible (haven't heard if Jesus tried to make an exception while I was gone) for the last 30 years at least.

Like walking 10 miles to school uphill and then walking 10 miles home, all uphill again!

Along with "It's not that he puts a foot in his mouth; he does that all the time. It's that he puts both in at the same time". Lou's assessment of Ted

I'd forgotten the Lou quote though!

Sigh, I wish there were still shows like that.

over a year.

True I was only 6 years old, but I asked my mother why she was mad at me.

Tikki
ps moved back to So Cal as soon as I turned 18..that was 47 years ago, YAY!!!!