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

[Henicillin]

Directions to my house include, "You know the stable on Route 20 going towards Albany, just before the village? There's a dirt road that goes off to the right at the top of that hill. That's my road." I'm not even sure if there's a sign there anymore. It was marked, but I *think* a plow may have taken the sign out this winter.

 

[Laurajean]

I know I'm in the boonies when I start a thread on BYC about my daily life in my small town, and half of the people tell me I should turn it into a book or a blog, and the other half accuse me of making it all up because it's just too absurd to be real.

 

[debilorrah]

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I live in a city that most people would consider odd at the least. We are 5 minutes from any gas station, fast food joint, star bucks etc. However, there is no one on either side of us (dirt lots) our place is 2.5 acres and we are allowed 130 small fowl and 8 large farm animals. No rules on how many roos, etc. Most neighboring cities only allow 6 chickens, if they allow any at all. So when people from "the city" cross into Hesperia, they know they are in for people on horse back, goats in front yards, chickens free ranging the neighborhood and ducks in ponds. And all of my neighbors have chickens, ducks, goats, cows, dogs, horses, etc. There is no such thing as a complaing neighbor in Hesperia. Not about animals at least. This city is VERY farm friendly.

If a chicken gets loose, we almost always know where it came from. I have found strange birds in my coop that I round up and take back to the people on the corner because they simply cannot contain their shamos.

 

[chickenlover54]

You know you live out in the boonies when your county is called Boone county

You know you live out in the boonies when the kids drive their tractors to school

 

[tinychicky]

you go into town and say "this is WAYYY to city for me"

your neighbors who just moved in from a city (that was a big deal, btw we never get new neighbors) think it's crazy that neighborhood kids are allowed, omg, in the WOODS where there's omg POISON IVY!!!

strangely, they said nothing about the fishers, coyotes, and black bears

you have to yell at you little brother when he shoots his gun to not hit the chickens, only the raccoons

if someone gets a new truck, everyone knows about it

it was big news for years when my old 7th grade english teacher robbed a bank!

one of the 6 year olds in your 4-h club can give you a detailed explaination on how chickens reproduce and the seven year old can canter one of the craziest ponies at the barn and beat up roosters and ride goats, no problem!

 

[RJ3]

When potty training your toddler includes her saying "Mom I gotta pee! I can't make it to the house!" Then she drops her drawers and lets it fly

 

[Boyd]

you watch in disbelief as your citified and new neighbors go insane when they have to wait or slow down for farm equipment crossing/travelling the road...

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

Oh, the other fun with citified neighbors is thier insult at the first finger wave. They here swear they are getting flipped off by everyone.

 

[emvickrey]

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We live in the country but it's not as far from the nearest town as alot of you all. But so many of these things apply to us.

Gun fire, shot guns and rifles in trucks, going potty outside, wearing what ever while outside, carrying a gun while outside for protection from the wildlife not other people. The pizza delivery does come to our house but no farther. This is where they meet people at.

Wondering who it is walking down the road and if they need a ride. We're known in the nearest town which if you blink you miss it. The ladies at the post office know me better than anybody in town because it's the place I carry my eggs to. I go to the post office more than the grocery store. Getting something to eat at a fast food place is eating out. I walk around in a tank top, shorts and boots. Sometimes they even match. But who cares, nobody sees me anyway. Nobody comes to visit because we're too far away.

The town on the other side of us has an all in one building. It is a grocery store, gas station, bait and tackle store, deer check in, restaurant, beer store. There is a bank, post office and fire station all in the same spot. Blink and you miss it all.

 

[emvickrey]

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My grandson is 10 and he will pee anywhere he is when he has to go. I've been walking around the yard tending to the birds and he was helping and all of a sudden I stand up and he's letting it go. I have to remind him not to do that in front of girls. He always tells me it's different with me, I changed his diapers. He won't think that when he gets older.