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

[emvickrey]

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We where going to take some animals to the auction and my grandson asked whos going and went out and got the goat, tied his legs so he couldn't wander off, caught the full grown turkeys and loaded them in a cage and the chickens in another cage and was hauling them to the car to load. He catches the loose chickens that people leave at the auction or they got loose and the owners just left them. He comes out here just to work with the animals. He cleans out pens, feeds and waters them. cleans out the duck pond. He even helps grandpa make pens. The oldest grandson is so citified it drives me insane. My couch has his butt indent. The youngest likes to take the chickens for a ride on his bikes.

 

[KC n KY]

You know you live in the boonies when...

You have more cows than neighbors.

Your driveway is 1/4 of the commute to work.

Pizza Delivey men AND the local Police laugh at you when you want them to come to your road.

You dont have a road sign at the beggining of your road because it doesnt last more than a week without being stolen for scrap

Ahhhhhhhh....I love my home

 

[chickendiva25]

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Ugg! I hate it when that happens!!!

 

[HHandbasket]

You know you live out in the boonies when you let the dog out early in the morning to do her business in the yard & she ends up barking and chasing off the deer that are passing by and grazing a mere few feet beyond your front fence, making their morning rounds in the woods that surround your house.

Mmmmm, I love that morning mountain smell. I have been a city girl most of my life, just moved out here in April of this year. It would take an act of God to get me to move back to the city now, seriously. I get frustrated even going into town for provisions. Just wanna stay home on the ranch. Seriously working on getting more self sustaining, but right now I am fighting a gopher/mole problem in the yard. Never had those before, not quite sure how to handle them. I'm thinking I'm just gonna stick a hose down there and turn it on.

 

[Kaitie09]

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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.

Same here. My mom takes at least 5 dozen eggs a week down to the bank. We bought our two Boer goats from one of the tellers at the bank too.

 

[QH Girl]

When you go to visit your neighbors on your tractor.

When you have to explain to people that their gps won't get them quite to your house, that they have to pay attention to your directions.

Directions to my house include, 'you know that pond where they found that dead guy after 10 years...'.

 

[stilldeb]

Omg really? The guy was in the pond for 10 years? Yeah, don't use GPS to try to find our house, either. I don't know where it takes you, but it never takes you here. People say, "is your house on the right or the left side of the road?" Well, there aren't any houses on the right side. The hills used to be marked "dangerous hill" and we are on top of the second "dangerous hill" and that was how I told people how to find our house, til they took the signs down. The hills are still there, don't know why they aren't dangerous anymore.

My husband was Ass't Chief of our volunteer fire dept for 20 yrs, and they had a fire way up on top of a hill - and it was winter - and of course there's no water up there. So up the hill they go with a tanker truck on an ice-covered dirt road...and then start sliding backward. Not much you can do but hold on.

But the very first fire they had, the truck wouldn't start and they had to push the truck to the fire, and they ran over the Chief's dog (named Ol'Butch, of course) with it, but he was okay.

My favorite memory of living in the country is my little girls in their white nightgowns outside just after dark catching a jar full of lightning bugs. (In the past four months, my little girls, now 26 and 25 and married, have blessed me with a granddaughter and a grandson.)

deb g

 

[QH Girl]

@Deb - yep, 10 years. He drove his car into the pond. Neighborhood kids swam in it, knew there was a car in it, but nobody checked for a body

. Any time I mention what street I live on the first thing I hear is 'oh, do you live by the pond with the dead guy?', so it's become a marker since I actually live pretty close to it.

The experiences kids get living in the country are priceless. I've talked to people that don't let their kids play in their own yard without supervision - it just seems so sad. Mine are always climbing trees, building forts, trying to sneak random critters in the house. It would take me years to 'city train' them

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[Sir Birdaholic]

Ya know yer in the boonies when ya can go trade at the city grocery store bout once a year. " Pack the suitcase honey, we're headin' ta town."

 

[mrkpero]

When a coworker didn't understand why we couldn't take our daughter trick or treating up and down the block like everyone else. Well, the closest house is 1/2 a mile away, then the next house is another 1/2 a mile away... Not to mention it will be dark and cars drive about 60 mph. All for 2 pieces of candy!