From the morning email from a lady in Maine.

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping it will swim by, you might live in New England.

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Mt. Washington is the coldest spot in the nation, and Boston gets more snow than any other major city in the US, you live in New England.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in New England.

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the year, you live in New England.

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you live in New England.

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in New England.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in New England.

"Vacation" means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend. You measure distance in hours.

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

You have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day, and back again.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Down South" to you means Philadelphia.

Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new shed.

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

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

You find 10 degrees "a little chilly."

You actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your New England friends.
Bebop

Bebop:

You're right on all accounts, you must have lived in New England. That's us all the way. In fact we have so much cold I like to say we have 2 seasons The 4th of July and Christmas.

... c'mon Steve ... .....The TRUTH is ... Rhode Islanders like to THINK they live in the 'frozen north' when in reality RI is about the same latitude as Albany NY ... in fact, over the last few years, RI winters have had less snow than New York City !!! ...RIers are STILL living in the blizzard of '78 ...
today's high was in the upper 60's ...
t.

ooooops... double post ...
I guess my finger froze to the submit button
t.

[This message has been edited by tony mads usa (edited 10-31-2006).]