Northern Enthusiast Gifts

True Grit

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

'I think you're getting the hang of it.'

"You were right: I don't like water, but I do love snow!"

A tortoise toboggans down a hill in its shell

"I still plan to be a cowboy when I grow up. If I'm going to service my share of the national debt, I might as well have fun doing it."

Good News about winter

'Awright...Who's the dirty, lowdown varmint who's copyin' my plaid-shirt-and-stone-wash-jeans-with-matching-boots-and-vest ensemble?'

L'il Buckaroo on Board.

Dawing your Cellphone

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

"Them's cat-fightin' words, Arlin!"

"I'll tell ya what we don't need is some Dr. Durango helping us with a dang snake bite."

Butterfly herders of the wild west.

Inappropriate Snowmen

"With the current state of the world, it's heartwarming to see kids having good old-fashioned, innocent fun in the snow."

The Philip Marlow family

"Suddenly, you’re a fan of New England stone work?"

Snowyphus

"You're right -- this town is big enough for the both of us."

'I always thought a dogfight was a lot of snarling and walking around stiff-legged.'

Buddy hadn't learned from the time his tongue got stuck.

'Hold on there Jethro! You know I don't tolerate that kind of horseplay in this joint.'

"Kid!! We know you're in there!!! Either come out or commence to fightin'!!!!"

"It was Saturday night. The clock on my office wall showed the time to be eleven-forty-five. There are times when a private eye does not necessarily feel like being a private eye. This was one of those times. The elevator door down the hall clanked open with a clank familiar to anyone on the fourth floor who had had an office on the fourth floor for as long as I had had an office on the fourth floor. Footsteps came down the darkened hall and stopped outside my door. They were the footsteps of a

Midwest Winter Items.

"They tell me you're a man who has True Magritte."

'Don't you like it, Dad?'

'Being angry about shovelling snow will only make it harder for you, daddy...you need to just accept the snow...instead of thinking of it as a chore, you hate, make friends with it.'

Man standing in front of giant snowball

"Mom, Dad - I'm a sidekick. I've always been a sidekick. And I want you to know that I have a pardner."

"On the bright side, Dear, your jump looked great right up until the landing!"

Cowboy directions 'Up yonder', 'Down yonder', 'This-A-Way' and 'That-A-Way'.

"....and some apple pie for dessert...oh miss, remember that a la mode!"

"I'm just gonna reach in my back pocket real slow-like and turn off my ringer."