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Originally posted by paigowprincess
no need in BRC's neck of the woods except maybe one or two days every fourth year. its besides the point.
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Most winters I've spent here, you're right, it's only really cold (by which I mean highs below freezing) 5-6 days each winter, if that. Last winter was a major bitch, though, and this winter is supposed to be the same. For a few years I've had this very silly early 1970s fur coat I'd picked up on a lark for $8 at a garage sale, and I never really had an urge to wear it, but I was SO GRATEFUL I had that thing last winter. I looked stupid, but I was WARM. I fully expect to look stupid this winter as well, but am considering getting a stupid hat to match.
Now, where I grew up we had real winter. (You kids, you don't know how lucky you've got it. Now when I was your age ...) Not quite Minneapolis winter, but every year a few people froze to death going to the corner for milk. If I were back there now I'd get a full length fur coat in a second (actually, probably a full length fur lined coat, or a long swing-cut shearling thing). I've never heard of anyone having trouble with PETA there, largely because when it gets cold, it is too cold for anyone to want to go out in anything OTHER than fur so the PETA folk stay inside.
