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

[equinelyn]

You know your out in the boonies when you only get 2 local tv stations (without satellite)

You can change cloths on your front porch and nobody will see you. The pizza thing for sure.

At night it's dark as hell, and all you can see are the stars, and the glitter of lightning bugs along all the trees.

 

[NYRIR]

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

the neighbors tractor has to pull the school bus out of the mud in front of your house

it's night time...and it's actually dark.

the power lines go down and everyone on the road comes to see it and talk about it.

 

[Kaitie09]

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

The closest pizza place is 5min away, but they will not deliver to your area (no matter how much you try to bribe them)

You only see a cop if someone calls them

You have free range goats, and the neighbors give them treats in the mornings so they get out of the road

You wake up one morning to find shell casings in your driveway, only to find out your neighbor was running around last night shooting at a possum

You look outside to see your neighbor (same one) trying to shoot squirrels out of the 100ft trees

You have to hand dig a 1/2mile trench through the woods, and lay the line, before the cable company will come out to hook it up.

 

[WoodChic]

Wow, there are allot of "It's actually dark at night" things on here. I actually find it very bright. Then again, I haven't lived in a city since I was 2.

(I do have really good night vision though)

-If a car goes by your house which you don't reconize, you ask in an incredulous voice "Who is that? Do you know? Where are they going?"
-Telling people where you live usually has to involve saying "It's near such-and-such. Ummm that's near such-and-such. Uhh we're like half an hour from such-and-such. You haven't heard of such-and-such!?! The interstate goes through there!"

-People are constantly getting stuck on your road because it SAYS on their GPS it goes all the way through.
-The most traffic you ever get are snowmobilers and hunters. (We live on a snowmobile trail.)

 

[chicmom]

OMG, almost every single post you've all made applies to my place.....

The boys often pee outside when they're working. Who's gonna see?

The chickens free range around the property all day. A chicken ate my hostas. LOL

Our house is on the first unmarked dirt and gravel road to the left. (That makes my city friends uncomfortable when I say that....)

I have to crack the window at night so that I can hear the "country noises" so I can drift off to sleep.

I'll tell people if they go past the big red barn with the "draft horse crossing" sign, they've gone too far.

You know springtime is official because you hear the "spring peepers". (Frogs)

It's not unusual to hear a cow moo.....

It's not unusual to hear gunshots in the distance.

People don't just drive by, so if we notice a strange car on our road, they're usually lost.

Oh I could go on and on......

 

[CarolJ]

Love this thread! I can identify with so many of them! Peeing off the front porch or anywhere outside must be a highly prized activity for males who live in the country. We also had to dig our own telephone, electricity, and water trenches for 1/3 mile from the road to our house before we could get them connected. And anytime my husband has been working on some of the machinery or in the fields and is especially muddy, oily or dirty - he strips down outside before coming inside to get a shower. Here are a few of mine:

You know you live out in the boonies . . .
-when your husband can practice shooting skeet - and it doesn't bother anyone.
-when (referring the aforementioned skeet shooting) your husband utters the phrase "I got 97 out of 100" (or 95 or whatever out of 100) almost daily
-when I can take care of the chickens and gather vegetables from the garden in my pj's - there's no one around to see
-when we want to check the crops in "the bottom" we have to use the four-wheeler to drive the distance.
-when you can sit on the front porch and watch wild turkeys and deer cross the front lawn.
-when the lady of the house has a gun carry permit and her own gun - and occasionally stands on the front porch to practice shooting.
-if you forget to secure the lid on the metal dog food container on the porch, raccoons will help themselves during the night.
-your husband has his own bull dozer which he uses quite often on the land.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Yeah, the turn on to the unmarked road is fun. Turn at the pigs yard works better, but people don't believe it till they try it. Over the hill, go past the elephant barn, turn left, then stop, shoo the guineas, turn in the driveway, drive slow, birds.

 

[maple]

elephant barn?

say what?

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

They painted GIANT Republican elephants on thier barn. Can't say they like me, or I like them, but turn after you see the elephant barn works vs 3rd unmarked road from the pig.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Oh, and yes, the directions only work in daylight. If it's dark, they better know how to get here, plus we go down to the road to find them.