Ya know you live out in the boonies when....

[stilldeb]

...When the animals knock on your door (I had a raccoon that used to come up and knock on the kitchen door and want cat food), and the neighbors don't, they just walk right in - and through the back door - only strangers and salesmen come to the front door, and of course, people that are lost.

OH - and once I saw a baby pig dragging its umbilical cord go across the road when I was driving home and I pulled up in a driveway and climbed down in a ditch in my good clothes after it and took it up to the farmhouse and the farmer and I veerrrry gently got it back to its mama, who was not in a very good mood, as she was still having babies.

deb g

 

[jtbrown]

When you go hiking with a friend and you invite her in for a water break before she heads back to town, only to look through the front window to see your naked husband who has just woken up in the afternoon from night shift work taking a PEE off the back deck... Because he can!

 

[ECBW]

You know you live in the boonies when... your neighbors are related to each other!

 

[KristyHall]

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oohhhh yeah. I am related to half the town dear love is related to the other half. I told him our children will not be allowed to date anyone in North Alabama!

 

[BarefootMom]

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oh I wholeheartly agree with that statement- so much I wrote a 10 page paper last semester for my eng class on it and got an A!

My 3 almost 4 year old is constantly going outside--he just brought a kitten in a few minutes ago. Cooper (my son) can name off almost every brand of tractor (the normal ones) by looking at them, knows more about animals than most adults-- how to milk cows, what young calves are called according to gender, knows how to call in the cows, knows about chickens, ducks, and rabbits...knows about combining, baling hay, mowing hay, raking hay, teddering hay- etc. You get the point...his knowledge is endless and I know for a fact that other boys his age that aren't around it don't know squat. He may not be kept up on all the cartoon characters but that is because he'd rather be outside than watching tv. We are taking him to his first movie this afternoon-- CARS 2 I just hope he will sit still long enough. lol

You said it would take 10 years to city train them...ha probably longer than that. I am not city trained at all- lived in a town of 10,000 for 1 year and could not stand it 1 bit. Any free time I had I was always driving the backroads, visiting the college farm, etc. I was 300 miles from home, but it wasn't a big deal to me to just drive home for the weekend to work cows

 

[oldrooster]

You know you live in the boonies when~~

you call the Sheriff's dept to come to your home and they "don't know that area..."

the pizza delivery people WILL deliver, IF you meet them at the gas station 20 minutes from your home

the power goes out; the power co. arrives in their big truck to trace the line; their truck can't make it up the mountain so you chaffeur them in your Terra-x (cause you want your power back on)

Google doesn't have your address listed and located

are you my neighbor? lol.....

 

[oldrooster]

This is sorta weird boonies. I have cable internet but no home mail delivery. No pizza delivery, no gas station in town, I have 'city water' but a septic system.

My neighbor asked if he could shoot his .30-06 into our field when he sees coyotes out there. (yeah, shoot 'em all!)

I check on my chickens before I go to bed with a rifle slung over my shoulder.

The only time there's any traffic jam in town is when the farmers are bringing grain in.

Many of us live in some kind of weird boonies, I also have city water and a septic, no cable tho, but mail, but I have high speed internet from phone company, but they wonldn't run natural gas to my area because not enough people would sign up for it when they connected the line 20 miles from one town to the other (that was 40 years ago and got lots more houses a couple of miles the otherside because of a highway and farmers selling out to developers) my phone company is located in one town in the county the mail comes from the county seat (different city) and my power company is based in the next county over since it's a REMC but in the city they have name brand power.... and half the town.

 

[oldrooster]

This is sorta weird boonies. I have cable internet but no home mail delivery. No pizza delivery, no gas station in town, I have 'city water' but a septic system.

My neighbor asked if he could shoot his .30-06 into our field when he sees coyotes out there. (yeah, shoot 'em all!)

I check on my chickens before I go to bed with a rifle slung over my shoulder.

The only time there's any traffic jam in town is when the farmers are bringing grain in.

Many of us live in some kind of weird boonies, I also have city water and a septic, no cable tho, but mail, but I have high speed internet from phone company, but they wonldn't run natural gas to my area because not enough people would sign up for it when they connected the line 20 miles from one town to the other (that was 40 years ago and got lots more houses a couple of miles the otherside because of a highway and farmers selling out to developers) my phone company is located in one town in the county the mail comes from the county seat (different city) and my power company is based in the next county over since it's a REMC but in the city they have name brand power.... and half the town.

 

[conny63malies]

When there are only two Walmarts within a 50 mile radius.
You got your own Hollow
There is NO Walmart within 50 miles.
You walk your kids to the bus stop and they sit on a mule( the horse hybrid that is)
you can run around your trailer naked
you got your own gun range in the back yard.
you explain where you live : take a left at the pay lake, go down the dirt road until you the gate....

 

[conny63malies]

your house and land has gas royalties and a mine shaft
you actually here crickets while playin banjo on the porch