You know you live in the country when...

[quadriga]

You drive by your neighbor's houses and you comment to your significant other on how beautifully their firewood is stacked.
:rofl:
Anybody?

[NMDemDist2]

1. when you comment on not only how nicely it's stacked but note

the multiple nice uprights they made from the old pipe and how we wish we had one

or just a few miles down, how nice and shiny that tractor for sale looked and wondered aloud what they wanted for it.

:hi:

[intaglio]

2. Someone asks why there are no streetlights on ... n/t

[supernova]

3. How many neighbors advertise "FREE FILL DIRT"

and you know:

1) What "Fill Dirt" is

2)What you will use it for.


:rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

4. OMG!

So true! :rofl:

[Inchworm]

5. You have 4 cars but only 1 has air in the tires.

:hi:

[jmowreader]

6. That's "you might be a redneck if..."

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. Your garage is twice as big as your house

And the only way to find your driveway at night is by the reflectors nailed to the trees.

( I don't know if that's "all country", or just yoopers ) (if you don't know what a yooper is, you're not one)

[femmocrat]

33. And it's a detached garage!

Plus you have an out-building or two! LOL

[kwassa]

8. When you can identify different types of manure by their smells

Regular cattle manure vs. liquified manure vs. chicken dung, etc.

[guitar man]

24. yep

I can identify beef cattle manure from dairy cattle manure by the smell :hi:

[blockhead]

28. You must have fun when people tell you , " you don't know shit".

[Aristus]

9. ...if the prime criterion for voting for a Presidential candidate is he's the kind of guy

"I'd like to have a beer with".

Apparently, out in the provinces, they vote for a drinking buddy, not a head of state. :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Rather than saying 'I'm going to the store'

you say, "I'm going into town."

[Z_I_Peevey]

23. Exactly!

And you feel like a failure if you have to go to town on a weekend.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

27. A few years ago we

drove to a tiny place NW of us for their "founders day" celebration. Free BBQ, fiddlers contest, crafts, etc. While waiting in line for the BBQ I commented to a woman that we'd just moved back to the area and "rode up from town" for the event. She knew what I meant.

[kentauros]

11. You will see folks at the grocer's

in only their nightgowns or bathrobes ;)

[unpossibles]

12. you have to plan a trip to the mailbox. nt

[NV Whino]

13. You give directions by landmarks rather than addresses.

(And they still can't find your place.)

[Canuckistanian]

15. Oh yeah

We're fairly new to living in the country (about 8 years) and we've actually been given directions such as this:

"Go south on the highway and turn off at the McMullen's house (the McMullens haven't been there for 15 years), drive on past the old woodlot and turn left about 1/2 mile before the bridge. It's the 7th house before the where the old railroad tracks used to be."

[truedelphi]

17. We were saying just yesterday that we are starting to do that

My friend Annie lives at the first left turn at the end of the first walnut orchard out of town.

What is really bad is when the directions are "Go down to the field where the red barn used tobe (before it burned down.) Hit the dirt road, and go for about ten acres through the vineyards.
Turn by the clothesline. Park and walk up the hill that is facing due east."

I would have never lasted two years in these parts without a cell phone!

[NV Whino]

34. LOL

Up in my neck of the woods cell phones don't even work. :rofl:

[youthere]

25. OR you identify your adress by the original owners...

We live in "The old Thompson Place"

[sarge43]

26. OR you id your address by the neighbors who have been there

for at least five generations. "We're across the road and two fields down from the Sanborne farm."

[sarge43]

14. .....when

you look up from breakfast and a bear is looking back at you through the screen door.

you complain about the noisy crickets instead of the airliners overhead.

you know which neighbor is cutting wood by the sound of their chain saw.

you call your neighbor to let her know the bluebirds have arrived.

you wave at passers by even when you don't recognize them.

[quip]

16. Directions to your house include, "turn off the paved road"....

[NV Whino]

35. Directions to my house definitely include that one.

I tell people if it looks like a cow path, that's my driveway.

[Critters2]

18. When you consider whether it's wise to go out after dark,

not for fear of muggers, et al, but coyotes!

[youthere]

20. Oh jeez the coyotes!

They've been hanging stragely close to ours and our neighbors house almost all winter. Weird. you step outside at night and it sounds like they are in the backyard.

[Critters2]

22. When I lived in the country, they used to come into my backyard.

I remember once, I stepped onto my back porch, and didn't realize a coyote was in the yard until I saw him frantically looking for a way out of the fence without coming near me. I went back in the house, and he FLEW through the gate and off into a pasture!

[u4ic]

37. Sometimes we get them in the middle of the city!

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. I was just about to ask where the hell you've been

You been flyin' under the radar, girl? :hug:

[u4ic]

41. I've been flyin', all right

to somewhere nice and warm. :woohoo:


Now I'm back in the cold and snow. x(


How have you been? :hug: :loveya:

[Oeditpus Rex]

42. Stressed

Trying to sell my house. x(



:hug: :loveya:

[u4ic]

45. Oy vei!

Not an easy thing at the best of times, but from what I've been hearing about the housing markets south of the border...:scared:

Many, many good vibes to you for selling your house quickly, and at the price you're asking. :grouphug:

[JackCo]

19. You're related to all your neighbors.

[youthere]

21. You don't necesarily have to go in the house to go to the bathroom.

:blush:

[hedgehog]

29. We used to try to convince our sons that it was their duty to try

to take out the poison ivy along the side of the barn in a way only boys can do safely!

[Gormy Cuss]

30. Every third house has a shingle advertising business services...

and it's usually some combination like "Polly's Beauty Salon" and "Small Engine Repair."

[southerncrone]

31. Your "driveway" is a more like a connect-the-dots of mud puddles.

Anyone coming to your house is definitely coming to visit you OR is definitely LOST!

You can lay out in the sun.... in the buff & no one knows! :blush:

[NV Whino]

36. See number 35 above

Lying out in the buff is a no no, however. I'm on the flight path to the local airport.

[femmocrat]

32. You pick up your mail at the Post Office.

And they recognize you, know your box number, hand you your mail, and address you by your name.


Small rural post offices are a disappearing national treasure.

[Critters2]

38. I've lived in two towns where it was done this way.

In one of them because there was only a weekly paper, the funeral home printed out death notices, arrangements, etc, and posted them on the post office door. Everyone had to go to the post office, so it was the best way to get the word out.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

39. Can't see your neighbors houses for the acres of woods

in between.

[grannylib]

43. When you get indignant about a car driving past your house,

even though it IS a public "road"
I can never understand why people who haven't been invited/aren't good friends are driving down "our" lane; it makes me crazy.
Go away!

[Gonzo Gardener]

44. Not one pizza place...

from either of the two nearest towns will deliver. x(