Blessed In Minnesota

BLESSED MINNESOTA

On the sixth day God turned to the Archangel Gabriel and said: 'Today, I am
going to create a land called Minnesota. It will be a land of outstanding
natural beauty; a land of 10,000 beautiful lakes, each one full of fish. It
shall have tall majestic pines, peacefully flowing rivers, landscapes full of
buffalo, tall grass, and eagles, beautiful blue skies, forests full of bear, elk
and moose, rich farmland and fair skinned people.' God continued, 'I
shall make the land rich in resources so as to make the inhabitants prosper and
they shall be known as a most friendly people, people who practice being
Minnesota Nice every day.'

But Lord,' asked Gabriel, 'don't you think you are being too
generous to these Minnesotans?'

'Not really,' replied God 'just wait and see the winters I am going
to give them.'

AND NOW YOU KNOW


How very true!

But really, if you overlook half the year we are truly blessed to have six months of nice weather.

Now that I think about it, we are truly blessed to have three months of really nice weather that we can enjoy. We had to subtract three months because the Minnesota State Bird, the mosquito, tends to scare us inside.

All joking aside, (who is joking), we can be thankful for our clean air and water...Except for the one month that it floods because of the Spring snow melt.

Oh yes, we have a beautiful fall season as evidenced by these pictures I took at sunset during our three days of Fall this past year.



Tune in again real soon for another edition of "Now What Are They Doing?"