OMGOSH!!! A couple of years ago I kept my flock in "summer quarters", with a shelter made from 4 x 8 plywood built like a tent, with a 2 x 2 ridge pole, and constructed on top of a pallet AND fully painted.
I though in July that they had stopped laying. NO!!!! They were digging underneath the...
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I get gloves, wheelbarrows, chain nippers, sometimes riding boots, Wall outside work clothes..if someone doesn't understand why I don't want diamonds, silk shirts and perfume, I buy them for myself--I ask them if they have a hobby, like golf? Golfers want clubs, tees, golfer clothing...
OUR first aid box is a wooden one that used to have belmondo cigars in it. It's the box that has speciality bandages like for finger/knuckles, big fist-sized bandanges, cloth rolls and tape--YOU KNOW, for those "around the farm" common injuries that you never get if you live in town!
You know you are country when it's time to move and you load up your furniture into your stock horse trailer, instead of renting a U-Haul.
I'VE DONE THAT!! Don't be grossed out--I scrubbed it down before I loaded.
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You KNOW you're country when you have no neighbors that can see inside your windows at night.
You KNOW you're country when you hear gunshots, but it's just your neighbor shooting those pesky raccoons that have been tearing up his roof!
You KNOW you're country when you can look up in the...
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ROFLMAO
I can't tell you HOW MANY TIMES I have stuck something in the pocket of my jacket and forgotten about it. Like, when I was looking for the key ring that has my LIFE on it--house key, office key, keys to the horse trailer locks, key to the tack room lock--it took me 3 weeks...
I absolutely LOVE that I have to walk/drive 3 blocks to the post office for my local mail! Never have to stop the mail because I'm away. Never have to sort through junk mail daily. NO LINE for mailing Christmas packages---excellect service from my post master!!