If you???re proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights each Year, because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Minnesota.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Minnesota.(Who eats ice cream in the winter?!

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don???t work there, You might live in Minnesota.(Guilty.)

If your dad???s suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Minnesota.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Minnesota.(It was a sweater but still.)

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Minnesota.(More bars.)

If you know how to say Wayzata, Mahtomedi, Edina, Shakopee ,Winton and Ely, you might live in Minnesota.(Whyzeta, Edineah, Shockopee, Eli)

If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Minnesota.(It is spicy.)

???Vacation??? means going up north past Virginia for the weekend.(Or going to Wisconsin.)

You measure distance in hours. (Guilty.)

You know several people who have hit deer more than once.(My dad, uncle, grandparents, and a few others.)

You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.(Yup.)

You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.(Occasionally. Mostly at Chrismtas cause that's when my family heads out for hunting.)

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.(No sense in leaving it locked. The lights scare them off.)

You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife/girlfriend knows how to use them.(Yep.)

There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Cub Foods Grocery Store at any given time.(Uh-huh.)

You design your kid???s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.(Who doesn't?)

You consider Minneapolis exotic.(Not anymore.)

Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your Blue spruce.(We don't even decorate our lawns anymore.)

Down South to you means Iowa.(More like Wisconsin.)

You were prouder than anything when you got a snow shovel for your birthday in March.(Yup yup!