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    Minnesota? Yeah, I remember those skeeters. . .
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    Quote Originally Posted by FAMESREVENGE View Post
    In Minnesota the nights are nice and warm, it is the mosquitos that have me in long pants and a sweater.
    My wife is still laughing three days later, I sprayed everything but the back of my calves (forgot) and of course they are the proud/bruised recipients of at least a dozen bites each...
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    I haven't been out this whole summer. With school, work, and poor conditions I just haven't made it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cladinator View Post
    I haven't been out this whole summer. With school, work, and poor conditions I just haven't made it out.
    I understand that completely. I purchased my scope the end of November of last year, used it once and then looked at it every day for three quarters of a year before making a concentrated effort to get out and use it... Three little ones six and younger but fortunately done with school now.
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    Been there done that... my variation.... arise at 4 am from a toasty warm bed. Step outside. Splendid heavens and apparently not too cold. Throw on a pair of jeans and sock less sneakers in my haste to grab the scope and get outside. Half an hour later and it feels like onset pneumonia!
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    Ipswich - well known as the biggest variation day/night temp - you should know better by now Lloyd!! lol - 'specially in winter!
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    Yes I should have know better, but often enthusiasm trumps knowledge and even experience!
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    I'm just enjoying the summer while it lasts. It may not be the best viewing ever, but at least I don't have to worry about my fingers going numb or my eyeball sticking to the glass.

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    Colorado is like that, you can have a 30* drop overnight. I believe we're one of the few place where it could be 80* today with 1-3 inches of snow overnight. Also, as you go up in altitude, the transparancy gets better, but the temperature drops like a rock.

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    My feet and ankles are littered with mosquito bites. Gonna have to at least put some socks on next time.
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