You know you live in the country when.....

wildhorse · #1 04/30/08, 10:33 AM

When the local paper puts out birth announcements and includes the birth of a mule!!! Floyd the jack and daisy the pony became the proud parents of Earnest T bass the mule......

watcher · #2 04/30/08, 12:46 PM

You know you live in the country when. . .

you get ready to go to town and panic when the keys AREN'T in the ignition.

your neighbor calls one morning to tell you that you better check the fence because he put your horse/cow/sheep/whateven back in the paster last night.

you see several vehicles pulled over you stop to help get what ever critter is out back to where it belongs.

the only time you lock your car is in late summer because if you don't you know you'll wind up with a back seat full of squash.

RedTartan · #3 04/30/08, 12:52 PM

You know you live in the country when you find yourself apologizing to a milk goat for cold hands.

You know you live in the country when the feed store owner offers you a big box of yarn that she's never going to get to.

You know you live in the country when you run into your neighbor at the corner store and end up chatting for close to an hour.

You know you live in the country when you go to its only restaurant and find that your other neighbor is your waitress this evening...

RedTartan

#4 04/30/08, 01:05 PM

You know you live in the country when the overspray from the peanut field across the road kills your neighbor's hedge.

When you get a better stand of peanuts in your garden from the ones the crows lost robbing that same field than you get from the ones you actually planted.

When you start seeing watermelons smashed on the road that it's time to start looking for your favorite stand.

When the fertilizer spreaders hit the hay fields in early spring it's time to fertilize your own stuff.

When talking about the chance of rain for any given week is more than just a way to make conversation.

.....Alan.

gina kay · #5 04/30/08, 01:13 PM

You know you live in the country when, someone who lives near next to your church ask you to board their horse, so after Sunday morning service you drive home very slowly while dh sits on the tailgate holding the horse by a tow strap (didn't have a lead rope in the truck and he didn't know how rideable the horse was). You know you live in the country when it's not uncommon for men to wear their "good" overalls to church. You know you live in the country when all your shorts have a small hole in the seat caused by crawling through a barbed-wire fence. All those mentioned by previous posters are so true.

sarhound · #6 04/30/08, 01:15 PM

Only where I work would you see a sight like this one....

A pickup truck was driving down the main street with a dead bull in the back of the truck. It must've been gone for awhile, because it was in full rigor mortis--feet sticking straight up in the air. He was turning a few heads as he sailed through the traffic lights...

#7 04/30/08, 01:34 PM

you know you live in the country when you accept my daddy's belief that "Anybody that ain't up by 6:30 or 7:00 is probably dead"

hotzcatz · #8 04/30/08, 02:00 PM

you know you live in the country when you can wear your black rubber work boots to the grocery store and nobody looks at you twice.

You pass your neighbor's truck while out driving and you both stop in the middle of the road and chat for awhile. Then the next car pulling up behind is another neighbor so everyone gets out of their trucks and chats for awhile.

ErinP · #9 04/30/08, 02:17 PM

You know you live in the country when:

--civilization is judged by how far you are to a town big enough for a WalMart.
--you've tied tinfoil from your radio antenna to your curtain rod to a signal.
--your six year old knows exactly what the vet is going to do with that probe on bull testing day.
--you've been caught in "traffic" behind the neighbor moving cows. And figure while you're back there you might as well bring up the drag.
--mail only comes three days a week. The other three are for the other side of the route.
--you know the difference between a truck and pickup.
--you plan your summer around Fair.
--coyotes are not viewed as mystical or romantic. They carry mange and kill calves when the winters are hard.
--you can fix anything with duct tape or baling twine.
--your Pampered Chef batter bowl is repurposed every spring for bottle calves.
--at least one drawer in your fridge is dedicated to vet drugs.

whocares · #10 04/30/08, 02:32 PM

Ya know you live in the country when

The chickens outnumber the kids

When you ride a tractor to the store

when you wear bibbed overalls to church

wildhorse · #11 04/30/08, 04:30 PM

If I would have thought about it I would have had my goat kids announced...lol
It would be good for business!

wildhorse · #12 04/30/08, 04:41 PM

You know you live in the country when..... - Countryside Families

MN Gardener · #13 04/30/08, 07:12 PM

you know you are in the country when all the males in your house have PODS (Peeing Off the Deck Syndrome).

ErinP · #14 04/30/08, 07:45 PM

That's how I potty trained my kids! lol Stripped them of pants and let them pee where ever they stopped.

trappmountain · #15 04/30/08, 09:56 PM

I live in the country because my office has baby chicks and seedlings all through it. I wouldn't have it any other way

OUVickie · #16 04/30/08, 10:52 PM

Oh Lord, that's a great story!

some of mine:

when you have to deliver a calf before you go to work.

when going to fetch your horse is how you meet your new neighbors.

when your dog has to show his biscuit (real not d.b.) to the cows before consuming it.

when your DH goes to round-up the cows who got out in his boxers and boots.

frugalwilady · #17 05/01/08, 01:04 AM

When you call for your dogs and the rooster "helps"you

When baby talking to your pets includes the chickens

When your nails are permanently stained dirt brown

when your garden shed is your old Dodge minivan

When every time you go outside at night you just have to look up at the stars for awhile

When the batteries for both flashlights are dead you have a backup kerosene lantern and actually use it

Tiffin · #18 05/01/08, 05:13 AM

When scrap steel is up, trucks are going by loaded with old cars, trucks, tractor implements of every age and size. It's clean up the farm days.

When people stop by to ask to hunt on your property.

When you have to go out and rescue calves that got into the wrong paddock and mom's are bellowing in the other paddock.

Katrina26 · #19 05/01/08, 05:24 AM

About a nearby town in GA that is always the butt of my jokes

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When your town only has 1 prostitute.

Local pasttime is to use a chain and a tractor to try to remove the cigarette machine from the local store.

The 'opera house' used to be a community center and is now a nursing home..sometimes still used by the opera.

You don't have a bank but you have a wing shack, a liqour store, and a gas station. Close enough to the big city.

The volunteer fire dept. got excited when a outhouse went up in flames.

You install flashing lights at the one instersection to alert people they're actually in town.