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Marshall Stanton
03-05-2001, 07:41 AM
You know you live in North Idaho if...

Your vocabulary includes the words jackpine and tamarack.

The roads are better to drive on in the winter because the potholes are filled in!

Drive by shootings begin September 1st each year... grouse season.

You remember the seasons of the year.... winter, more winter, still winter and construction!

Having a bear of a day means you met up with a grizzly.

Road hazard signs depict moose crossings!

Your kid comes home from a date saying he had a great experience, he really saw lights.... means they watched the Arora Borealis (Northern Lights).

Weekend passtimes for spring include rebuilding front-end suspension on your car!

When -20 degrees is "a little chilly!"

You know several people who have hit deer with their car.

Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

You have to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in your car on the same day.

You see a car in the store parking lot with the keys in the ignition and a gun in front seat and no one in it!

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable or animal.

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

You know what "cow tipping" and "Snipe Hunting" are.

You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page.

You think both opening day of deer and elk seasons should be national holidays.

papajohn428
02-15-2004, 09:19 AM
You mean opening day ISN'T a Holiday? When did this happen?
PJ

kdub
02-15-2004, 03:06 PM
Some of that stuff brings back old memories, Marshall!

Don't know if they still do, but Pennsylvania used to have a school holiday on opening day of deer season - not many kids showed up, anyway!

Wouldn't it be great if all other states adopted the same policy?!

DOK
02-15-2004, 03:17 PM
Marshall,

While Iowa can't match a number of the "standards" you list, we're close enough to be cousins.

Dan

Jer
02-16-2004, 05:45 AM
The school I teach at here in the U.P. of Michigan gets opening day of deer season off each year. :D


Jer

wyonative
02-16-2004, 08:24 AM
jer,

I suggested that to the administrators here in WY in the district in which I teach, and they looked at me as if I were crazy. They gave me some excuse about " ... how we have to keep the kids in school because of NCLB. We're being held accountable now." A lot of parents just take their kids out of school, which makes it hard for some students to make up their work.

DOK
02-16-2004, 11:42 AM
jer,

I suggested that to the administrators here in WY in the district in which I teach, and they looked at me as if I were crazy. They gave me some excuse about " ... how we have to keep the kids in school because of NCLB. We're being held accountable now." A lot of parents just take their kids out of school, which makes it hard for some students to make up their work.

wyonative,

Six years of college and it was very worthwhile and profitable. But, upon reflection, I can't remember a single day in class that I learned a more meaningful lesson(s) than I learned on a single day in the timber ...... the solitude alone was education of the highest order. Obviously, can't carry it to an extreme, but coming back renewed had it's advantages.

Dan

Jer
02-18-2004, 08:39 AM
Having the first day of deer season off here is almost a necessity. Two years ago opening day was on a Thursday. We had thursday off as usual, but we were supposed to have school on friday. We didn't have enough students show up to legally call it a day of school! Made me glad I used a personal day that day. :D

Jer

dodge
02-19-2004, 12:27 AM
Schools still close for the first day of deer hunting here in Pa. When I was younger I worked for a company that gave you the first day off with pay. Boy, was that nice get paid for deer hunting.

jb12string
02-21-2004, 06:32 AM
Dodge, which part of N. Central PA are you from?

dodge
02-22-2004, 12:47 AM
Tioga County about 25 minutes away from one of the best gunshops in this area. Ackley's in Westfield.

jb12string
02-22-2004, 02:19 PM
I have a camp in central Potter Co. between Costello and Prouty, only problem is its south of Rt. 6 so the deer have been kinda scarce lately