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[katallison]

I may have said it a year ago, or two years, at this time, but it bears repeating -- the sound of sleet rattling on dead leaves, in the blustery chill night, is, for any good Minnesotan, the leitmotif signalling that winter is lurking in the wings and readying itself to take the stage.

Shut the windows and latch 'em tight, turn on the furnace and dig out the flannels. We won't see the 60-plus days again until April, a half-year from now.

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[evilprettykitty.livejournal.com]

Ah yes...that is quite the unmistakeable sound. I was filling the birdfeeder this afternoon when it started. I was instantly freezing andwishing I had gloves.

[tracy-rowan.livejournal.com]

My heart yearns for that music.

[wickdzoot.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm, as a new Minnesotan, that's something to remember.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Waaah! My backyard and porch time is coming to an end!!!

[umbo.livejournal.com]

You know, part of my frustration at not hearing about the job yet is that, if I *do* get it, I'm going to be moving in *December*, and the transition back into the land of 4 seasons (with a length of cold weather that almost corresponds to the length of really hot weather here) will be that much more abrupt. Plus I've clearly already missed the best part of fall. Ah well....

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

I just want you all to know that my air conditioner just kicked on.

However, the mornings, just before sunrise are cool.

Cool enough to prompt the cat to sleep on me for about 30 minutes.

That's how I know it's winter. When the cat stops sleeping next to my husband and starts sleeping on me.

[lapillus]

Oh, I don't know, given the way the weather has been this year we might see one in December. Or February.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. We're not quite there yet, but it's soon, I'm sure. (We're still at "half the leaves have fallen and the other half are dazzling orange.") I'm wearing the year's first turtleneck today, anyway.

I'm actually kind of pleased about this whole cold weather thing. Sometime in the last 12 years, when I wasn't looking, I seem to have turned into a northerner.

[the-shoshanna.livejournal.com]

For me (lifelong New Englander, now Canadian), that sound is the indication that the hellish siege is beginning, and it's time to huddle miserably around a feeble dung fire, behind shot-riddled walls, and think about boiling my shoe leather for food.

Save me, new high-R-value windows! Save me!

[giglet.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you. Or rather, I'm not right there at the lifelong northerner part, but I am with you on the "hellish siege" part.

Alas, not right there with you on the new windows part. But we have rope caulk, and doublesided tape and plastic.

[blacksquirrel.livejournal.com]

Ah - It's things like that I miss most about Minnesota - little indescribable things that I never appreciated in the moment. Ann Arbor has winter - just not *Minnesota* winter. I remember the first time I really bundled up to go outside here - only to realize that it was about 20 degrees and I had to take off half of my layers. That's just not right for January.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, Kat. We still have that January thaw to look forward to. Remember back in '87 when it got up to about 75 degrees for a while?

Those were the days.

Remember, here in Minnesota, we get all of our months every year - we just don't always get them in order.