Homesteaders

[shortgrass]

Joke told to me by a friend from Lyman, CO.  No offence intended.

Not that the plains are flat or anything, but you know you're in the eastern plans of Colorado when your dog runs away and you watch him go for three days.  

ROFL that is soooo true! Most think the whole statebis all mountains and rivers and trout fishing.... I can see a cop before HE sees me lol, way before his radar can even register

*we have one about how bad the wind blows.. Punch line being something about a neighboring state... I KNOW I'll offend a Husker with it

 

[HeritageGoose13]

IMO, Buckwheat is the easiest of the grains, as far as fast to getting a yield( from seed to harvest in as little as 8 weeks), how much grain there is at harvest, how easy it is to thresh (it doesn't need it, just a sheet and a broom for smacking it with lol) and mill ( no work at all, the shell goes into the flour)... It uses poor soil and is actually a soil amendmentvand cover crop

I think grains are actually easier than veggies/ nut/ trees etc... It's pretty much just grass... Rye is considered a weed in most places, and oats and wheat only need a little cover and water and they grow pretty good without needing fertilizer for setting fruit etc...like watering the lawn

Wheat straw lol, irritates me when I use it for mulch in the strawberry bed and then wheat grows because there was seed in it... But the chickens gobble it right up

Thanks, I always thought grains would be difficult to grow for some reason. I like buckwheat because I hear the bees love it. Maybe I will try growing it sometime.

 

[wyoDreamer]

ROFL that is soooo true! Most think the whole statebis all mountains and rivers and trout fishing.... I can see a cop before HE sees me lol, way before his radar can even register

*we have one about how bad the wind blows.. Punch line being something about a neighboring state...

I KNOW I'll offend a Husker with it

Is this the way it goes?

Do you know why Wyoming is so windy? Utah blows and Nebraska sucks.

Just call me fearless! I will probably get edited for language though, I couldn't think of another word for the Nebraska part ... and remember that it is just a joke.

Sorry Husker's, but your state is endless! I-80 through Nebraska is such a long drive, it was always the dreaded part of the 16 hour drive from WI to Cheyenne. A good part of that drive is with the sun in your eyes. I do like all the farm fields along the road, but worrying about running out of gas because I missed the exit is kinda stressful.

 

[shortgrass]

Thanks, I always thought grains would be difficult to grow for some reason. I like buckwheat because I hear the bees love it. Maybe I will try growing it sometime.

No problem and yes, bees love it; it attracts other beneficial predators to the garden too...and its pretty

Is this the way it goes?

Do you know why Wyoming is so windy?  Utah blows and Nebraska sucks. 

Just call me fearless!  I will probably get edited for language though, I couldn't think of another word for the Nebraska part ... and remember that it is just a joke.

Sorry Husker's, but your state is endless!  I-80 through Nebraska is such a long drive, it was always the dreaded part of the 16 hour drive from WI to Cheyenne.  A good part of that drive is with the sun in your eyes.  I do like all the farm fields along the road, but worrying about running out of gas because I missed the exit is kinda stressful.

Lol yep, that's the one! I feel bad because its not THEIR fault it's so flat and boring lol... Soon as it gets pretty you know you hit Wyoming

Running out of gas? ROFL too many stories to recall, most being drifting behindca semi for 20 miles because the only exit for 60 miles with a gas station was closed.... I have never been more grateful to 2 truckers, ida never made it home

 

[rancher hicks]

Is this the way it goes?

Do you know why Wyoming is so windy? Utah blows and Nebraska sucks.

Just call me fearless! I will probably get edited for language though, I couldn't think of another word for the Nebraska part ... and remember that it is just a joke.

Sorry Husker's, but your state is endless! I-80 through Nebraska is such a long drive, it was always the dreaded part of the 16 hour drive from WI to Cheyenne. A good part of that drive is with the sun in your eyes. I do like all the farm fields along the road, but worrying about running out of gas because I missed the exit is kinda stressful.

I for one am not that easily offended. Friends should be able to poke fun at each other. That's how you know they're your friends. Right?

 

[wyoDreamer]

I apologized for the Nebraska part of the joke, but really want to say a bit about Utah. Utah is beautiful and has a lot of sites that I want to visit. More than just flying through on the interstate on my way to visit Idaho and northern Cali. I always thought is was funny to see the Utahians traveling north to Wyoming to buy their beer for the weekend and the Wyomingites going south to buy their Lottery tickets. That is how this country works. Really, thinking about this United States of America, there are so many interesting and diverse environments to go see you really don't need to travel oversees for vacations.

 

[rancher hicks]

I apologized for the Nebraska part of the joke, but really want to say a bit about Utah. Utah is beautiful and has a lot of sites that I want to visit. More than just flying through on the interstate on my way to visit Idaho and northern Cali. I always thought is was funny to see the Utahians traveling north to Wyoming to buy their beer for the weekend and the Wyomingites going south to buy their Lottery tickets. That is how this country works. Really, thinking about this United States of America, there are so many interesting and diverse environments to go see you really don't need to travel oversees for vacations.

Every state has it's good points. I'm sure there are plenty of jokes about NYS. These are Jeff Foxworthy's jokes and some of them are SO true.

"If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Upstate New York."
"If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights a year because Saranac Lake is the coldest spot in the nation, and Syracuse gets more snow than any other major city in the US, you might live in Upstate NY."
"If your local ice cream stand is closed from October through May, you might live in Upstate New York."
"If you get 131 inches of snow in a week and you comment that 'winter's finally here', you might live near Oswego in Upstate New York."
"If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the year, you might live, bundled up, in Upstate New York."
"If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Upstate NY." I get more help from people who don't work there.
"If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Upstate New York."
"If you have worn shorts and a parka on the same day, you might live in Upstate New York."
"If you have had a lengthy phone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Upstate New York."

"You know you are a true upstate New Yorker when..."​

"Vacation" means going South past Syracuse for the weekend.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend/wife knows how to use them.
You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
Down South to you means Corning.
You go out for a fish fry every Friday.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find 10 degrees "a little chilly." and 55 is shorts weather.
You actually understand these jokes, and you send them to all your Upstate New York friends and to those who used to live here and left (Chickens).

 

[wyoDreamer]

Just about every one of those would relate to Wisconsin also. We had a neighbor in Wyoming who was from upstate New York. We had so much in common.

 

[shortgrass]

I apologized for the Nebraska part of the joke, but really want to say a bit about Utah.  Utah is beautiful and has a lot of sites that I want to visit.  More than just flying through on the interstate on my way to visit Idaho and northern Cali.  I always thought is was funny to see the Utahians traveling north to Wyoming to buy their beer for the weekend and the Wyomingites going south to buy their Lottery tickets.  That is how this country works.  Really, thinking about this United States of America, there are so many interesting and diverse environments to go see you really don't need to travel oversees for vacations. 

Kinda like we go up to Cheyenne for fireworks

Really, Nebraska is pretty if you like a long view of corn... Lake MacConaughey is the best thingbin Nebraska hands down. Big white sand beaches, clear water...its like an oasis.... In Nebraska

Here in Colorado, the western slope is so alien compared to the front range... I lived by the Grand Mesa for 5 years...vineyards, orchards, deserts...then went back east, mountains, skiing, foothills, Denver and ghetto, plains and cattle, sandhills to Kansas... I rarely leave Colorado... But I have been to Moab in Utah, and agree Utah is a state I'd love to explore more of...

 

[Raech]

Alright folks, you're making me want travel just I can go see all these places, knock it off!!!!! I have been across Montana, corner of Wyoming, North and South Dakota, and its all for the most part flat and boring after doing it twice a year for 7 years. It is time to travel south below Boise Idaho now. North to Alaska is BEAUTIFUL, wouldn't mind that trip again, but with 2 kids it is time to hit up Route 66 I think while watching Cars 1&2.