[Ibginnie]

1. The road crews are out in force and they're NOT salting or plowing.

2. The shoes on the shoe tree on US-131 change from boots to sneakers and sandals. Kalkaska, MI - Shoe Tree

3. The towns come alive with "down-staters."

4. Cherry Street Market is bustling.

5. Snowmobiles give way to 4 wheelers.

6. 2 tracks are navigable.

7. Mario Batali can be seen in Meijer

8. People can be heard asking, "Where can I hunt some mushrooms?" (morels)

9. You can fish in a boat and not a tip-up.

10. The sandbar at Torch Lake fills up with partiers.




Feel free to add your own.

[kimba01]

Woo Hoo!! Can't wait!

[MICoastieMom]

Have you seen......? (the italics are mine)

JEFF FOXWORTHY’S YOU MIGHT BE A MICHIGANDER
1. If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Michigan.

2. If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Pellston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Michigan. (He forgot that ”When Hell freezes over” has an entirely different, but literal meaning here!)

3. If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Michigan. (If the words ‘Big Mac’ mean something besides a hamburger, you might be from Michigan.)

4. If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Michigan.

5. If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Michigan. (This is DH to a tee, he walks up and down the aisles offering to help the little old ladies who can't reach the items off the top shelves!)

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

7. If you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time, you might live in Michigan. (Or worn shorts one day because it was so hot and woke up the next to 6" of snow!)

8. If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Michigan. (And people give directions by the locations of the bars! I even know ministers who do that!)

9. If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Michigan. (I have been known to give the information operator, who was in Georgia, instructions on how to cook her Thanksgiving Day turkey!)

Part 2 - You know you're a true MICHIGANDER when . . .

1. "Vacation" means going up north on I-75

2. You measure distance in hours.

3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. (And back again!)

5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching. (And can do it upon completion of high school driver's training classes!)

6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings) or plan their weddings around play-off for the Red Wings or Pistons.

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.

9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit. (Been there, done that!)

10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow. (How true!)

11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.

14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

15. Down South to you means Ohio.

16. A brat is something you eat. (You not only know what paczki and kifli are, you can spell them correctly, and you know where to buy them.)

17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn.

18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.

19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."

22. You drink pop and bake with soda.

23. Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine.

24. You can actually drink Vernors without coughing.

25. You know what a Yooper is. (And that a Troll is someone who lives “below” the bridge.)

26. You think owning a Honda is Un-American. (And so is not knowing the words to “The Star Spangled Banner” and “O, Canada.”)

27. You know that UP is a place, not a direction.

28. You know it's possible to live in a thumb. (And that it is possible to show anyone exactly where you live using either your left or right hand depending in which peninsula you reside.)

29. You understand that when visiting Detroit, the best thing to wear is a Kevlar vest. (I think Jeff needs to update his research. The murder capitol of the U. S. is now Charleston, SC. Of, course, Detroit is the text messaging and sex scandal capitol of the world, right now!)

30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your
Michigan friends

[Ibginnie]

MICoastieMom, that was great!

I see a mass emailing in my future.