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Posted by: Jerome Christenson on February 26, 2010 at 12:15PM EST

Ok, enough of February already.

For that matter, it's been winter enough for one year, thank you.

I'm tired of frost-nipped fingers and chill blained toes. I'm tired of scraping my windshield and shivering my way across town waiting for the defrosters to warm up.

I'm tired of listening to the furnace at 2 a.m., tired of looking at snow, tired of peering up at my roof and wondering about ice dams. I'm tired of dodging snowmobiles on country highways, tired of trotting back to restaurants to retrieve my gloves, tired of having little puddles of melt water on my kitchen floor.

I'm tired of snow days, snow shovels, snow boots and snow jobs. I'm ready to grumble about serious slush, mud and having to clear a winter's worth of dog poop off they yard.

I'm ready for tulips and pussy willows -- lawn mowing, not so much, but if it lets me park the snow blower -- Ok.

But mostly, I'm so done with February I''m almost sick of March.

It's time for a change, folks, time for a change.
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Posted by: Coulee Region Online on February 26, 2010 3:56PM EST
Oh, me too! I'd like to just skip March except for the Polar Plunge. Spring doesn't really start around here until April so We could just have the Polar Plunge this weekend instead and jump right into April. :)

Michelle

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Jerome Christenson is currently the chief pixel wrangler for Winona Daily News Online. He’s lived his entire life thin that part of Minnesota wedged between Wisconsin and Iowa, and he grew up reading “Li’l Abner” in the Winona Daily News. Jerome’s personal history in Winona dates to days (and nights) as a student at Winona State College. Professor Henry Hull’s incomparable stories of exploding steamboats, rampaging buffalo and the ladies of Second Street “who would go steady for money” sparked a fascination with local lore and arcane he continues to pursue three decades later, even when he should be working on something else. Jerome joined the staff of the Winona Daily News in March 2000 as a columnist and reporter. Inspired by the Second Street ladies, he’d been writing for money for the previous 15 years and justified joining the Daily News with the observation, “If it was good enough for Al Capp and Mike Royko…”


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