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

[TouchO'Lass]

When you have to apply to the county for an address...

When directions to your place are, "Ya know Ted's old horse pasture on the way to Blue Lake? That's us..." And everyone does know.

When having to wait for three cars to pass is a 'traffic jam'...

When the closest traffic light is 37 miles and three towns away. And the next light is 120 miles away...
When the biggest selling point for the DH was, "Yessir! You can pee and shoot right off your deck..."

Pizza PLACES?! As in, more than ONE?

Good stuff here!! Loved the Mensa guinea story!!!

 

[Cowgirl71]

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

- you drive a four-wheeler to go get the mail out of your mailbox, because otherwise it will be a 45 minute walk there and back.

- you expect to be out of power for 60+ hours at least twice a year.

- the nearest Walmart is a 40 minute drive (once overheard a vacationing city-slicker mutter "This is THE smallest Walmart I have EVER seen!").

- it's "long-distance" to call your next-door neighbors.

- your nine year old brother drives the suburban with a 20 foot trailer through the field as the rest of us throw square bales on the trailer.

- your thirteen year old brother drives Dad's Dogde Ram 3500, while hauling nine 5' x 5' round bales.

- all of your brothers drive full size tractors, to feed and make hay.

- you milk a cow twice a day every day.

- you think "store milk" is absolutely disgusting! (and "store eggs")

- one of your most loved pets is a 1,400 pound cow.

- you can describe to your city-Grandma how to tell whether a "cow" is a bull or a cow, while keeping a straight face, LOL. Also had to describe why one of the hens (the rooster) was being so "mean" to the other hens, but that's another topic...

- you don't worry about whether or not the curtains are closed when you want to change into your PJs before bed. There's nobody there to see except the fireflies!

 

[tinychicky]

i forgot: you tell people you have around fifty animals and they tell you you're a hoarder

 

[gryeyes]

You know you bought a house in the boonies

when your real estate broker is the county Sheriff's mother. And when she tells you there is no residential mail delivery on your street - but you can get a post office box.

And the Waste Management company confirms the broker's/Sheriff's mom's declaration there is no garbage pick-up at your house; you will have to walk the can(s) down the street to the specified spot for that street's garbage pick-up. And, of course, back up the road to home again.

When the local contractor working on various issues and projects at your house tells you to get a deer whistle for your Toyota RAV4. And highly recommends a specific size and type of wheelbarrow to buy, "because you can't live out here without one," then mentions, three days later, the hardware store about 10 miles away is having a sale on the exactly correct models of wheelbarrow for the Fourth of July. HIS is more than 20 years old. "Just treat 'em right and they'll last forever."

When said contractor explains how septic systems work, why you don't put toilet paper down the toilet for "quick trips," nor ever buy any of those septic tank products claiming to keep 'em working right. Just flush some "old hamburger" down the toilet about twice year. And, no, don't have the washing machine "grey water" piped into the septic tank. Won't harm the bushes none.

I love it here. I can see the Milky Way at night! There were quail in my front yard this morning.

 

[Whiskey Bay]

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You know you're in the boonies when NO place will deliver to you're house....lol...

 

[ourlittleflock]

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x2 and we love pizza in out house hold

and you teach you boys to pee outside - using the tree in the front yard... worked for both of them

 

[Cowgirl71]

Oh yes... Have to trailer the garbage cans a mile away for garbage pick up.

 

[Godsgrl]

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Ugg! I hate it when that happens!!!

You know you're in the boonies when the pizza place doesn't deliver to anyone!

 

[stilldeb]

...when your kids' friends want to come to your house because you make the best homemade pizza - because, you know, you've never had pizza delivered so you learned how to make it, in fact, you pretty much learn how to make everything because you don't go to town for every little thing.

...when you've never ever had trick-or-treaters at your door - who would be that crazy?

...when you walk to your next door neighbor's house (for exercise) and she says, "Good heavens, did you walk all the way down here?"

...where everybody has two names...even my next door neighbor had a poodle named Jimmy-Sam.

...when your kids grow up and get married and live in town for the first times in their lives and HATE it. (the town part, not the married part - ha)

deb g

 

[eggbuster]

When the pizza man does deliver, but its $20.00 extra and when the pizza finally arrives you find the pizza guy handed it off to someone who was going out this way and now you only have to pay $15.00 for delivery because that someone got hungry on the way over and ate 2 pieces.

When you can't make supper because you have a bear stuck half way through the kitchen window. (the reason for paying the pizza man $20.00 for delivery)