Upper Midwesterners Here!

[krisinluck]

I know of at least three other's here who live up in this area. Where are you? lol

You know you are from (the Boonies of NW) Wisconsin if...

If you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
If your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...
If you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
If you learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike...
If the "Big Three" means Miller, Old Milwaukee & PBR
If you know that a "brat" is something you eat ...
If you know that Eau Claire is not something you eat.....
If a Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...
If you go out for Fish Fry every Friday night...
If your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of July...
If you think that Lutheran and Catholics ARE the major religions.....
If formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...
If you have to drive thirty minutes to the nearest movie theater...
If your school lost half their student body during deer season...
If every wedding you have been to has required you to dance the hokey pokey and the chicken dance...
If you ever went to a wedding reception in a bowling alley...
If you know it's traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the ceremony and the reception...
If you only know three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup...
If you design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit..
If the mosquitoes have landing lights...
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes fill in with snow...
If it takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town!
These are true for where I live, but I bet the other Upper Midwesterns have some that work for their area. :D

C'mon, guys...fess up!

[kim]

..."madison: twenty-five square miles surrounded by reality"...

[krisinluck]

I like that, Dusa. I've never been in Madison, other than to drive through. I'd like to go down there, though. It sounds like more my kind of town than this one is. :P

[kim]

that's a slogan - i believe that - micheal feldman - of npr's "what do you know" program - (who used to work at our co-op taxi cab company - by the way) - came up with it - it might be older than that though...

[gmsys]

If you don't know what a bubbler is you're not from WI.
http://www.thebubbler.com/county/Milwaukee/

EZboards live chat sucks! LOL
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[gmsys]

By the way!
Peace, ramonaleona. I really did like the PIC of the morning sunrise over the lake you posted on (Ghost Town) last year.
Nuff said! After all this is the :1ross_mon Show. ;)
:1akagera:

[blondieia]

I guess Iowa qualifies as upper midwest?

[luculent]

We're so hot here in Iowa again, we should qualify as somewhere around the Equator.

[krisinluck]

I'd consider Iowa upper-midwest - although not as upper as Wisconsin/Minnesota (which is also hot as hell, and oddly enough, dry and dusty this year too).

[kim]

ah - sorry - gmsys - hadn't seen that before - up there - re: the pic. - thanks - and - yep - peace...! :)

p.s. officially - hahaha - sorry too - for the other thing - what other thing - um - let's just not talk about that anymore - you know - that thing - heh yeh - that thing - whatever - really - sorry - you caught me - in a bad moment - no excuse - but - well er - i am - (also officially) - "a hisshead" - okay - enough - fini - yes - peace...

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[Meya]

We spent almost 2 years in a small town 20 miles from Marquette Michigan. We lived between Marquette and a town called Sands, near K. I. Sawyer AFB. September of 1977 to April of 1979...Does that count?

[gmsys]

We spent almost 2 years in a small town 20 miles from Marquette Michigan. We lived between Marquette and a town called Sands, near K. I. Sawyer AFB. September of 1977 to April of 1979...Does that count?
Yes Meya that definitely counts. I have family up in Iron Mountain and the rest in Oneida county WI. :1iwana:

[sheryl]

I'm here too in this hot, humid, dry state of WI! More south than you guys though, I'm very close to the tourist trap of Lake Geneva (tourists suck & drive like assholes!)

[krisinluck]

We don't get tourists so much as "cabin people". You know...the people in the cities who can support two mortgages, one of which is on a lake.

And they drive like assholes too. :D

[bluekazoo]

Raised 'up north' - even 'norther' than Kris lives now ... the land of two weeks of -40 temps each winter and where there's a glorious thing mid-January called 'THE THAW' ....

Lived in lots of different towns in WI over the first 38 yrs of my life, including dusa's beloved Madison (which was my personal favorite) ... ended my WI-days in Sheboygan, before finally leaving the state for good ...

I miss a few things ... I miss that shade of green that only exists in WI, MN, and the U.P ... I miss clear summer nights filled with stars ... and I miss the accent, oh jeez, how I miss the accent ... I get on the phone with old friends back home, and all of a sudden my o's get rounder and my ahh's get wider ... (as an example, Sue on the first season of Survivor? well, her voice sounds like a warm hug to those of us who grew up 'Up North') ... I miss church bazarres (or is that bizarres?) ... I miss the longer days in the summertime (the further south you get, the less of that you see, but I remember it still being light out at 9:30 at night) ... I miss BIG snowstorms, when you knew by 6pm the night before that school and work would be closed the next day ... many many good things back there to be missed ..

I don't miss the length of the winters ...

And I only miss smelt a little bit ...

(mention my name in Sheboygan (boygan) but don't tell 'em where I ammm ;)

[sheryl]

kris - we have "cabin people" too I guess.... the one's with the multi-million dollar lake homes and they're only here a few weeks or months out of the year! (That's ok though, they have to pay higher property taxes for not being full-time residents)! ;) The next town over has a full time population of around 2000, I read that during the summer months it's about 8000. Honestly, the economy here would suck without tourist but they are a pain for a few months a year. You get so used to just walking right up to check out counters and stuff all year, then summer hits and you may as well be in the Chicago 'burbs standing in line or in traffic.

blue - it's 8:00pm here and still light out. My daughter & I just came in from playing out in the yard and watering flowers. I do love it here, I've lived in Indiana & Minnesota and grew up in the NW suburbs of Chicago and will never, ever, ever go back!

[agentorange]

Don't you feel isolated up there, like you're missing out on all the action?

[krisinluck]

Many of love it up here - me, not so much. I am a city girl at heart, and moving here from Denver was akin to being plucked up and put on Mars. lol But we have family obligations up here, and as long as those obligations exist, we'll be muddlin' through.

I gotta say, though...not all of the upper midwest is rural like where I live, Base. Minneapolis has a warehouse district of bars (complete with "NO GUNS ALLOWED" posted outside each one) that really jams on the weekends. Madison is a college town, so I know people there have stuff going on.

I'm pretty well out of my "action" days now - married, kids, mortgages...I just want a Baskin Robbins within 200 miles, and I'll be a happy girl. :D

[kim]

action - hahahaha - people run around naked up here...

and...

some people even eat people...

- wild up here...

[0uthouse Cleaner]

Twin Cities here. I wish Cheeseheads would learn how to drive :1wall2:

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