candy and a Chat bun..

whats with the north Dakota news....does anyone live there from here ........I still have sun...the ferry is taking double long for each trip today...

 

Why you in love with Enrique Iglesias ....:love:

 

Someone sent me in the email and I thought it was hilarious

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRv8oxtHmHo&sns=em"]Polar Vortex To Plunge US Temperatures to -50C - YouTube

 

good grief charlie brown

 

wind almost blew my car off the ice road on the way home....very hairy ride

 

My friend from Chicago just sent me a video of her throwing hot water and making snow in the freezing air...its pretty cool

 

A framed sketch of the scene depicted on this site's homepage, the execution of thirty-eight Sioux on December 26, 1862, used to fascinate me when, as a boy in Mankato, Minnesota, I would visit the Blue Earth County Historical Museum.

Apart from its macabre appeal, the picture impressed me because it captured the most famous event in the history of my hometown (easily surpassing in significance the death there of an obscure Vice President who died while changing trains on his way to the Black Hills).


The hanging, following trials which condemned over three hundred participants in the 1862 Dakota Conflict, stands as the largest mass execution in American history. Only the unpopular intervention of President Lincoln saved 265 other Dakota and mixed-bloods from the fate met by the less fortunate thirty-eight.


The mass hanging was the concluding scene in the opening chapter of a story of the American-Sioux conflict that would not end until the Seventh Cavalry completed its massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on December 29, 1890. In 1862 the Sioux Nation stretched from the Big Woods of Minnesota to the Rocky Mountains. There were seven Sioux tribes, including three western tribes, collectively called the Lakota, and four eastern tribes living in Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas called the Dakota.


About 7,000 members of the four Dakota tribes lived on a reservation bordering what was in 1862 the frontier, the Minnesota River in southwestern Minnesota. The Dakota Conflict (or Dakota War or Sioux Uprising) involved primarily the two southernmost Dakota tribes, the Mdewakantons and Wahpekutes. Tribes consisted of bands, each with a leader or chief. The Mdewakantons, for example, were divided into nine bands. A majority of the 4,000 members of the two northern tribes, the Sissetons and the Wahpetons, were opposed to the fighting. A large number of Sissetons and Wahpetons had been converted both to farming and Christianity, and had both moral objections and strong reasons of self-interest for keeping peace with the whites.



In addition to pure-blood Indians, there were many so-called mixed-bloods, the products of relationships between Indians and settlers. A majority of mixed-bloods sided with whites or avoided participation in the Conflict altogether.
A decade before the Dakota Conflict, the Minnesota Territory, stretching from the upper Mississippi to the Missouri River, was still mostly Indian country. The conifer forest and lakes of Northern Minnesota belonged to the Ojibway (or Chippewa), while the deciduous forests and prairie of southern Minnesota was shared by the Dakota and a much smaller number of Winnebago.



In 1851, however, the Dakota by treaty agreed to give up most of southern Minnesota. The land was ceded to the United States in return for two twenty-mile wide by seventy-mile long reservations along the Minnesota River and annuity payments totaling $1.4 million dollars over a fifty-year period. Seven years later, in exchange for increased annuity payments, the Dakota ceded about half of their reservation land......

 

When it gets really cold, like single digits or lower, fill up a super soaker with hot water and shoot it. Instant snow gun!


Tapatalk is consuming my life

 

ahh it's freezing outside!! Seems like it's perfect to stay inside, listen to music, and smoke the herb :sifone:

Stay warm everyone! :sunny:

 

post nap..............only hours of wood chopped atm.......my chainsaw is fixed now....bad plug.....gonna head outside after a java

36 more hours of this and then it'll warm some

 

Wish You Were Here is the greatest album. the guy on the cover was set on fire multiple times to get that shot.

I'm gonna try to get to school earlier and workout before class

 

I will be really glad when we get a break in this cold snap. The amount of ice is treacherous and it is too cold for the salt to work. It just sits on top and laughs at me!!

 

it's going to get back around zero on friday and then on saturday they're forecasting 2C. I've been putting off taking all my empties to the store because of the cold, so saturday is the day, haha.

 

wish you were here on 8 track the first time I heard it in the 70s

 

naw i used to skateboard a lott, but slowly stopped over the past year or two.. i'm sure it'll help with my balance when learning to snowboard

im so pumped about snowboarding, i wanna go this weekend already but my gf just got back from a ski trip like 2 days ago so i dunno we'll see if i can convince her.. lol


I was talking about some shoes i ordered online a while back... and how the tracking info hasn't been updated... it's now been 7 days since its been updated and for the past few days DHL global has been shut down due to a "severe winter storm"...... I think my package is still in Des Plains, IL... which is where it started... so it hasn't moved at all, wtf... this sucks... and right on their website they say don't call them about it... I ordered this on the 22nd or 23rd.. getting kind of annoyed...

 

i'm in an email loop with all my cousins .we are planning a massive family reunion for july....they keep asking ''who is rollingalong'' lol

 

i dont email family...i cant stand getting forwarded messages and stupid jokes

 

dont get too excited...warmer always means it will be snowing hard

 

Yeah, but I don't really mind the snow. My commute is only a few minutes long lol.