Take off your shoes when inside the house.

Don’t use an umbrella. Umbrellas are for tourists (despite the fact that you live in a literal temperate rainforest)

Leaving you car unlocked and running when you run errands during the winter.

But locking it in the spring/fall because bears.

Don’t lock your front and back doors either

Buoy swings (a fishing buoy attached to a rope and hung from a tree for kids to swing on)

Complete seafood snobs

Unanimous dislike of fish farming

It’s rumored that commercial crab/shrimp fishermen will cut the buoys off subsistence crab/shrimp pots when the commercial fishing season starts

But I don’t know how true that is.

Wood stoves in nearly every house. Middle of town in a trailer? Wood stove.

No fire places, they don’t actually heat very well and just take up wood.

Lots of homeschoolers

Getting wished “happy solstice” on winter solstice because everyone is so excited to start gaining daylight.

Rhubarb everywhere (in food and gardens)

Obsession with a type of flower called fireweed

Counting down the days of summer based on the fireweed.

Rubber boots, specifically the Xtra-tuff brand, as everyday footwhere.

Like, you write your name on yours and decorate them to distinguish them from your friends’/family’s/neighbors.

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2/3