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

[maple]

...and when you've got bugs baked on your windshield.

 

[heather112588]

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watching men working outside and tractors...i can't top that one!

 

[maple]

Hi Heather... my parents are from the Baltimore area...my relatives are out that way.

Traveling out in those parts was my first experiance with chicken house after chicken house... and my mom wonders why I went "chicken?"

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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[heather112588]

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They must be from up north (harford/cecil county area) or west (frederick area) then to be able to see chicken house after chicken house.
... Down my way there aren't many chicken people. We live in the county but only consider it boondocks bc we bought 43 acres set aside by a railroad company on a secondary road. I only know 5 people on this whole site around my area and only one of which is close by (in baltimore county).

 

[4Hchickenproject]

Most of these have been posted, but they ring true here, too:

We hear shotgun blasts after midnight and call the neighbor to see if "they killed it."

If a dog barks after dark, we grab our gun

When a car passes, the kids all run to the door to see who just went by... and where they're going... and how long it takes them to discover it's a dead-end road, and come back.

We go for a walk after dark in our pj's

Hubby sits on the front porch swing every night just before bed, smoking his last cigarette, in his undies

When someone else's livestock is out nearby, we either corral it or, if it can't be caught, keep it herded past our house, since there are hundreds of acres of "nothing" past us, and no one will run over it or scare it.

Pizza will deliver if we meet them at the intersection near town

And our first indication we are in the boonies: when dh broke his leg really bad and we had to call the ambulance b/c I couldn't get him to the truck, we heard the ambulance approaching... passing by... and continuing on... we got a call ten minutes later asking "where did you say to turn to your house?"

We also are on "the old County Farm," which everyone local knows. Hasn't been a county farm here since the Great Depression, but that's what it is still called

When people ask if I'm afraid to stay home by myself, especially if the kids are home, I reply NO! I'm much less afraid here than I would be in town with close neighbors, many of whom I wouldn't know very well, and waaaayyy too much traffic! My dogs would go nuts barking at everything and everybody. I like it much better here, where we know exactly what's around us and how to keep away that which we do not want

 

[HHandbasket]

We know we are out in the boonies when the property we live on houses 40 alpacas, a llama, 63 chickens, 9 cats, 3 dogs, and nobody complains about noise OR the smell.

 

[HLAC]

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.

 

[thespinningcottage]

Shoot, all ya'll are in town. You KNOW you're in the boonies when GPS can't locate you!

 

[heather112588]

Does it count if you see this going down a dirt road into the woods???