We fish. You won’t find me out ice fishing in this lifetime, but I might be tempted to check out the Art Shanty Project sometime… ETA: Annie wrote about the Art Shanty Project a few days ago – and there’s even a Knitting Shanty!
We drink. If you’ve ever wanted to sit outside in a bar made from 12,000 pounds of ice, check out the Ice Chamber at the Chambers Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. I think I’d be huddled by the fire pit the whole time!
We fest. The St. Paul Winter Carnival is over for another year, but you can still check out the pictures and contemplate what the Hot Dish Tent was like.
We raise money. For a shockingly different fundraiser, you could participate in the Polar Bear Plunge and support the Special Olympics – yup, you do have to jump into an icy lake.
We skijor.
We fly kites.
We ice skate – both indoors and out.
We hibernate…
“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Mayhem
Judging by the entries to the State Fair, I believe the second last one. You people seem to take your knitting very, very seriously!
Skijoring? Personally, I’m with May.
Sounds heavenly! I miss the cross-country skiing.
I think Mayhem has the best idea!
*pat pat pat* Aw, I love kitty loaves…
Sounds like the winter activities in Minnesota are pretty much like the winter activities here in Toronto. Except for maybe the ice castle…
How often is May that quiet? You Minnesotans sure know how to live!
Dude, an ice bar. What’s next?
I highly recommend the Art Shanty Project. I wrote about it a few days ago. Did you notice that they have a Knitting Shanty? Go, you won’t regret it.
Skijor – wow!
The picture make Mayhem look so little – like a kitten picture.
Sometimes, they just sit in the quiet company of good and dear friends and feel whole again. Thank you!
I’ve always wanted to try Skjoring, only I don’t think one can knit and skjor at the same time… : )
Dude, I think I’d just sit around and shiver.
*sigh* I want to live someplace that has snow, at least if I’m going to have to suffer through miserable summers. I miss living someplace where cross-country skiing is at least occasionally possible.
That’s an adorable picture of May, though. At least there’s decent hibernation weather here. 😉
I would never, ever do the polar jump thing. I say no deal to hypothermia!
I’m also with May for hibernating.. you can pretty much count me out of events that include the word “ice” or “frozen” unless they have the word “margarita” after. 😉
Awwww, the lil cutie pie looks cold!
You forgot snowboarding and downhill skiing!
I would like some snow…..
I can believe that you’re great readers – look at the wonderful bookstores you have (I’m completely jealous)…
hibernation kicks ass
Skijoring is new to me!
I would so be at the S.U.R.V.I.V.A.L. Shanty stuff. Though I think I’d skip the cleaning a walleye with a toothbrush workshop.
Chris- If you hibernated in a coma, I guarantee it would be ten times more exciting than ice fishing.
Bunch of guys, drunk, sitting in a hut over a hole. Ask me how I know.
An ice bar? I’m actually quite fine with the ice being *in* the drinks, not surrounding them. And me.
I vote for hibernating.
hibernating is definitely a good idea. It’s STILL snowing outside here! Not hard, its the big fluffy snowflacke kind of snowing…but its still
SNOW! Yuck.
I have it on good authority that fish houses – particularly the “good ones” – have heaters. And are sometimes even outfitted with generators and even satellite television.
And, I may, if forced, cop to attending a gathering or two in one of the not so “good” ones in high school. 😮
I gave all that up though…
Such a cute little hibernating kitty! I do hope the camera’s flash didn’t wake her up.
I might have to move there – I’ve never seen so many knit stores in one place!!!
We now have 2…and then one 20 miles away in one direction, and another 50 miles in another direction…
Ever wonder why I live online?
I don’t blame Mayhem for hibernating…brrrr…
(((hugs)))
I can get behind the last 3 activities, but most of the rest sound too chilly for me!
And don’t forget St. Paul’s underground downtown tunnel system and Minneapolis’ “habit trail” walkways. Minnesotans do know how to do winter well. Although, I think Mayhem has a pretty good plan. I would sleep in the bed though the right side up–more cozy. But that’ just me.
I saw “we fly kites” as “we fly kitties.” Oh my.
I want to be where there’s snow but my husband keeps telling me I would go insane eventually. Fat lot he knows, I’m already insane! 😉
I admit to being glad to be in California, where it is sunny on occasion in winter and rains and there is no ice on the ground for me to be inelegant on 🙂 A month in Canada was enough cold for me! You northerners are made of tough stuff!
IMPRESSIVE list of yarn stores! I have yarn envy.
The Hot Dish Tent cracks me up. Being from ND, I grew up on hot dish. We serve our version of Tater Tot Hot Dish quite frequently to guests. At first they act all superior like they couldn’t possibly eat such white-trash food, but there’s never any left over.
And that is a great spread of yarn stores!
I am generally not keen on spending lots of time outside when it’s cold enough to freeze my brain, but I have to admit that skijoring stuff looks kind of fun…
LOL at May on the upside down cat bed!
I miss cross-country skiing. I still have my skis in the garage. It looks like Minnesota has enough going on that there wouldn’t be much cabin fever. I think I could do without the Polar Bear Plunge or winter kite flying though.
I so miss being a Northerner.
I vote for the knitting, reading, and hibernating.
You know what we Floridians do when it gets cold? We sit inside and bitch. LOL.
My brother does the polar bear plunge here in Ohio every year… right into Lake Erie… for special olympics. He’s usually a top fundraiser. Now he’s trying to talk his 4 sisters into doing it with him. We think we’ll just keep giving him $$. 😉
oh… I just love it when kitties sleep like that…
and the whole polar bear plunge … that makes me cold just *thinking* about it!!
Brrrr…..
When I first saw that picture of Mayhem, I thought it was a tiny kitten curled up on a hat! Thought perhaps you’d decided to go for a third Black Menace!
We have nude water skiing on New Year’s Day, but it’s not exactly MN here.
I’m with Mayhem. Scoot over.
People who do the polar bear plunge are nuts. Period. All the rest are great, especially the reading and knitting activities. But that map left out Three Kittens in Inver Grove Heights and Creative Fibers at 54th & Penn and Knit ‘N from the Heart in Woodbury.
My dad was an ice fisherman, but not the extremely boring way with a hook and line. He and his buddy would spear the fish. It amazed me then and it still does that he could actually hit a moving fish. Oh, and they had to allow for the refraction from the water, too.
You have inspired me to consider ice skating lessons.
I do miss ice skating. Finding a good used pair of size 11 skates was always a challenge 😉
There is a quote from Kimi Raikonnen (a racing driver) who hails from Finland.
The interviewer asks him: ‘what is there to do in Finland in your downtime?’
Kimi: ‘well in the summer there is fishing and screwing and in the winter, well the fishing isn’t so good’