I'm with George.  I was born and raised on a northern Iowa farm.
Winter meant the work still got done, it was just colder.
Now that I'm older my fingers seem to get colder but fortunately I've
discovered a cure......Schnapps!  :-)

Happy New Years to all good friends on the list!

Jim in Iowa
89 Westy GL
91 Passat Wagon GL
66 Beetle
53 Beetle

On Dec 31, 2003, at 5:15 PM, George Goff wrote:

> In a message dated 12/31/03 9:16:27 AM, GlmceN@NETSCAPE.NET writes:
>
> << in the North East it is a big deal to do almost any job that
> requires
> being outside in the cold! >>
>
> To me, this is like water off a duck's back.  Among other things, I've
> worked
> on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in winter, I've been sailing on the
> Chesapeake in February and I've had my cherry busted while still in
> college when I
> once spent a Christmas "Break" laying a half mile field run of intake
> piping
> from a water treatment station to the power plant on o wind swept
> hilltop in
> Western PA.  You do what you have to do whenever you have to do it.
>
> George
>
>