Mrs. Theknow is the Minnesooota native. Moved there with her in '72.
Got a job where my sales territory was all the states East of the Mississippi.
Quit when my kids started calling me Uncle Dad.
1st winter in Minnesota, me a native South Carolinian, I was helping my father-in-law put up a TV antenna (remember those?) in sub-zero weather.
Humidity was frozen as you could see the frozen water particles floating by in the air, when you breathed in through your nose, they condensed and melted onto your upper lip.
I was trying to grow my first and only mustache and the ice was covering it. Wiped my upper lip with my mitten (gloves are useless in sub-zero weather) and I broke my mustache.
Performed many experiments in sub-zero weather that were remarkable. Throw a glass a water in the air watch it freeze before hitting the ground, spit and listen to it POP in front of your face, blow soap bubbles and watch them crash to earth without bursting.
lol, antennas, oh yeah. Best time to install stuff,, subzero.. lolol. catching the football games was worth it.
born there in ‘54, I left in ‘72.. I remember icicles, every breath crackling in your lungs, rotary snow blowers cutting swaths thru hugh drifts..