You know you live in the country when...

[cindyc]

oops. Feel free to delete. My bad.
Cindyc.

[jill.costello]

oh, heck no! We all LOVE to finish this sentence! I'll go first:

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

-Your boss accepts your excuse for lateness when you say "Ted Kroeger's heifers were on the road again!"

-You consider it very polite of your neighbor to warn you that he's going to shoot your dog.

-You're actually proud of that dog for keeping the neighbor's calves in a tight formation and NOT allowing himself called-off until you arrive.

-You know what type of crop is being harvested by the color and consistancy of the dust in your living room.

Next!

[Toads tool]

-you have no fear of stepping outside in your underbritches to feed the critters or get the mail. In fact, I rather enjoy it.

-You have "critters" instead of pets.

-you have pets that the rest of the world classifies as livestock.

- the county plows your road last when snowed in.

-waking up to "Ted Kroeger's heifers" in your front yard.

[canfossi]

- you see a minivan go by with a square bale of hay on top.

- you see a pig sitting in the back seat of someones car while your driving on the road.

- you have to meet someone who's coming to your house at a specific location since it too difficult for them to find on their own.

[tyusclan]

-you can count the cars past your house from 10 p.m. to daylight on one hand...and you live on a paved road.

-you have one pet and the rest of the place is full of groceries on the hoof.

-you can just barely see your neighbor's yard light...if it's not too foggy.

-you can walk out the front door, walk a hundred yards, and climb into a tree stand.

[simplefarmgirl]

you can here the neighbors cows bellering when they are in heat
you round the corner and to cows are in road
you watch for turkeys in road, cuz you know their going to be there
you go to the stores and they ask you if your there to shop or pick up pig food
you realize your in line at store and you have hay in your hair and muck boots on still
you get excited to see mail man cuz seed catalogs are coming
neighbor stops and say hey your pigs are out for a walk there is 6 of them walking on the road and the bus of little kids go by as your walking your pigs back home. and they all scream and yell with laughter, saying that looks like our pigs

[Queen Bee]

You know you live in the country when the kindergarten teacher calls and ask that you have a talk with your son about him peeing off the front porch of the school.

....when the men of your house and male visitors go outside to use the bathroom--even though you have three bathrooms!


...When your children come to visit and go out to their cars/trucks to retrieve something with nothing but their bathtowel wrapped around them!

...when you have a poopie scraping brush at all the exterior doors!

---When you have three freezers full of veggies and meats and NONEof it was purchased..

[BeltieBandit]

When your more interested in your neighbor's new tractor than his new car.
When muddy cows, smelly pigs, and chickens look good, and foxes and hawks are bad.
When you haven't cleaned your truck in years, but your old tractor shines.

[jirwin]

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

-kids get time off school for deer season

-Carhartt is a fashion/ you think carhartts are sexy

-School buses wont pick up on ur road in bad weather

-you dont have cell service w/in miles of your house

-you spend more time outside than inside

-you wear long johns daily between november and april

-it takes you longer to get somewhere b/c you got stuck behind a tractor

-you've used 4 wheel drive in your drive way

[Karenrbw]

...The neighbor's kids go by with a deer on top of a minivan on their way to the check station.

...Your kids are late for school again because Chris's goats (all 125 of them) were out in the road again.

... Clarence's cows wake you up at 5:00 because they are all on the fence looking into you pasture bellowing.


...You get a Christmas card addressed to you with only your name and city and state on it ... and it arrives on only 5 days.

...The postmaster calls you on Christmas Eve and tells you that a package came in for you on the late truck and if it is a Christmas present she can get the mailman to run it out to you even though he is done with his route and it is after 5:00.

...When you have pictures developed it is an equal mix of human kids, animal kids, and both.

...The UPS man leaves your packages on top of the car so the dogs can't reach them.

...Everyone thinks your driveway is just a pasture road and most people don't even know there is a house back there.

[luvrulz]

Oh boy, can I relate!

[kentuckyhippie]

you haven't had to BUY a thanksgiving turkey in years
you know the names of your neighbors dogs
you've ever left the door open and later found a hen egg in the corner
your goat has ever eaten your mail when the carrier failed to shut the box lid

[vicker]

UPS and Fedex drop your packages at the country store.
Building permit? What's a building permit?

[myhorsejack]

While sitting in the church sanctuary during bible study you realize you still have your chore boots on.........

but its ok because everyone in your church has made the same hurried goof at some point. And besides what else would they expect since the pickup parked outside is still hooked to the trailer..??..

Christina

[jill.costello]

...hee hee...this just happened today...:

You know you live in the country when....
.....You look up from what you're doing and scream at the top of your lungs, "HEY! Bring that back here you stinky little bugger! HEY! I'm TALKING to you! Don't give me that look! Put mommy's things down RIGHT NOW, or I SWEAR I'm goona' beat your hiney! (scrambling up from a crouched postition) You little POOP ! That is IT! You ever heard of an AUCTION?!...."

Child? nope.

dog? nope.

8 month old horse? yup. with my bucket of fencing supplies gripped firmly in his teeth; trotting away.....

[Use Less]

You can see the stars, including the dimmer constellations and the Milky Way.
At night you hear the coyotes, foxes or owls, and you don't hear traffic.
A plane far enough off the usual flightline to the regional airport that it goes low over your house is an occasion for running outside, mouths gaping.
"Everybody" knows about the black helicopters, but you actually see them. Hereabouts they're said to be looking for pot patches in the corn fields.
Hardly anything goes in the garbage can, which gets hauled to town hall every few weeks. You're so used to the daily composting every green thing, feeding meat fat & scraps to chickens or wild birds, burying the bones, turning newspaper into fireplace logs, boxes into targets, & tee-shirts into cleaning cloths and towels into dog beds, that taking plastic sacks back to the store (or shopping w/canvas), is no chore at all.
The weather and road conditions won't be anything like what you see on your road, so you need to drive 2 miles to figure out if you can get to work.
You live the furthest away over the roughest road, and you are always the first one at school or work. When the others bug out at the first opportunity because something like rain, wind, or snow is coming, you stay late to have the place all to yourself, knowing your 4x4 pick-up with the fog lamps will drive up the side of the building if you need to.
You have the definitive collection of old hand tools, cooking pots, & hand-operated appliances like grain mills, meat grinders, sausage stuffers, apple pealers, raisin seeders and bean frenchers. Not only do you know how to use them all, you do use them regularly, and have your own recipes, the neighbor's, your grandma's and a copy of the church cookbook published in 1940 to help you. Sue

[Cabin Fever]

...when you can take a shower on the front porch.

[deaconjim]

Originally Posted by jill.costello

-You consider it very polite of your neighbor to warn you that he's going to shoot your dog.

I always offer to replace the ammo.

Originally Posted by Toads tool

-you have pets that the rest of the world classifies as livestock.

Or you have livestock that the rest of the world classifies as pets.

Originally Posted by Toads tool

- the county plows your road last when snowed in.

I've had to drive around a stuck snow plow to get out of my driveway.

Originally Posted by Karenrbw

...You get a Christmas card addressed to you with only your name and city and state on it ... and it arrives on only 5 days.

I once got a card delivered that way the day after it was mailed, and they brought it by my office because they knew that's where I'd be.

Originally Posted by myhorsejack

While sitting in the church sanctuary during bible study you realize you still have your chore boots on.........

but its ok because everyone in your church has made the same hurried goof at some point. And besides what else would they expect since the pickup parked outside is still hooked to the trailer..??..

Christina

Our church once had a deer walk through the doors and up the aisle during the service.

I guess I live in the country.

[wy_white_wolf]

Originally Posted by Cabin Fever

...when you can take a shower on the front porch.

SMACK!!

is what WIHH is going to do to you.

[Nellie]

When you and all the kids pass a dead skunk on the road, and you DON'T yell, "Eeew! Skunk!!"

When you pass a dead raccoon on the road and you all cheer.

When your 3yo twin daughters learn how to say "Dam' coon".