Get ready folks, the spleen has spoken. :-)

http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/297652/

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RURAL PINGREE, N.D. – It’s not the most traditional way of predicting the weather, but one Jamestown man boasts a near-perfect record stretching back decades.

Pig spleens and their height and width are how Norbert Schulz predicts the snowy season in North Dakota. This year, Schulz offered the same advice as years before: Buy a new shovel.

“It’s going to be real nice here for a while; then she’s going to turn real mean,” Schulz said sizing up the spleen in his rural butcher shop.
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I for one wouldn't mind another long cold winter......but I am in Florida :-)
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So is my son, and I thought he'd never stop complaining last winter. :-)
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House swap til April? You can HAVE all the stupid ice and snow.
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Common practice for alot of farmers. My great-grandfather would do that.
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He can have our snirt, and slush and salt from the raods here, too. I question about every winter why I still live in MN.
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For the ice fishing, silly. :-)
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bring on the snow. I need to try out my new sled.
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I question why anyone would want to live up there? We could give the top 2 layers of the US to the Canadians and I wouldn't miss them. Between my military time in Chicago and Philly, you can have the crappy weather up there.
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bring on the snow :-)


skiing and snowmobiling season is right around the corner!
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I hope it snows like it did last year. My boys had a ton of fun out in the snow, and I got to stay home a few days and relax with my family.
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Never have to pack a cooler!:-)
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Lol. It's North Dakota. My guess is that we can just forego the spleencast and get that shovel!!! :-)
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Shovel....who uses a stinkin' shovel....:-)

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I'm sick of the cold already I say bring on summer.
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Don't you mean ice DRINKING? who fishes? :-)

I was in school in Grand Forks when they had their worst winter on record, and subsequestly record flooding along the Red River of the North. They should have started sandbagging in the fall. :-)
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