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

[Bud Green]

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

You start noticing the ingenious methods people come up with to keep animals from getting into their trash when they put it out for pickup.
Of course, not everyone knows how to spell.

I saw this one last month, on a drive thru the next county over...

..

 

[Snook]

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

You start noticing the ingenious methods people come up with to keep animals from getting into their trash when they put it out for pickup.
Of course, not everyone knows how to spell.

I saw this one last month, on a drive thru the next county over...

..

Bro.. Ben is the garbage guy.

 

[St. Phatty]

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

You start noticing the ingenious methods people come up with to keep animals from getting into their trash when they put it out for pickup.
Of course, not everyone knows how to spell.

I saw this one last month, on a drive thru the next county over...

..

I'm still collecting bits and pieces of the story ... an Epic Feud that makes Hatfield & McCoy seem tame ... involving 2 neighbors.

It involved 2 best friends. One of them had a dog that got into the other's garbage.

For a year. At which point it was shot, by the one who wasn't able, somehow, to build a simple box to keep the bears, and dogs, out of the garbage.

Then the guy whose dog was shot first, shot the other's dog, and the feud was on.

In fact, the guy who shot the dog first, DIED ... and the other guy continued the feud with the late widow - etc.


I put my garbage out without the box - can't get upset when animals get into it !

 

[armedoldhippy]

if so many groundhogs burrow under your outbuilding that the foundation cracks & you end up jacking it up w/a car jack, filling the holes with big fucking rocks, & shoveling Quik-Set concrete mix around them & turning on the water hose...

 

[Robrites]

 

[Bud Green]

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

a sign like that last one is just asking to get shot up....

 

[sadpanda]

 

[armedoldhippy]

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

a sign like that last one is just asking to get shot up....

those are covered in the budget, along with the "deer crossing" signs, under the heading "citizen marksmanship program"....

 

[Stoner4Life]

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

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




your neighbor is an armed old hippy

 

[Betterhaff]

lol, those signs are just decoys and funded by the ammo manufacturers.

 

[MicroRoy]

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Reminds me of a not so brite friend. He took an aluminum arrow filled it with powder. Then pulled the lead out of a 22 and put it in the hole.

Shot it at a stop sign. Thought it would explode. Nope it took off like a wobbling rocket. Right back at him. We all laughed for days.

 

[Robrites]

 

[St. Phatty]

When you start using clean straight round logs from the forest,
instead of 2x4's etc., in your construction projects ...

that's probably a good sign

 

[slownickel]

When it is faster to get to your friends house putting it in 4 x 4 through the road you cut with your chain saw, than it is going around using the paved road.

 

[Stoner4Life]

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

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

this is your front door

 

[neverforget4/20]

a friend just told me this story: now this isn't MY story but am looking for anyone that may validate it.

when he was a kid and worked his fathers dairy farm..

There were a couple acres that were the designated area for dug up tree stumps. They were stacked/arranged in such a manor that it created a rat condominium. BIG rats, not 6"-8" but full 12'-14" rats not counting the tail and they were seen every day.

(I used to shoot the same sized rats along the Hudson river (1960ish) in the local dump in a small town north of NYC: if you haven't seen one that big, they are 'impressive'.)

anyway one day his father caught one of those rats, alive, in a trap. He said; watch this.. an proceeded to singe all the hair off that rat, without burning it. Let it go and never saw another rat again..

seems a little out there story but when he lived in the country... I was drunk and crying laughing when he told us that story..

When the hair grows back

 

[St. Phatty]

The problem with the log approach is ... it takes more time.

I have a Dinafem Amnesia that is just getting into flowering.

She needs a big frame to help with trellis'ing her.

I put up a fence made out of aviary wire, maybe 2 1/2 feet across ... and now she is pushing up against that.

I was going to put up a bigger trellis, about 4x4 and 6 feet high.


So when it came down to it ... I had to take a short-cut.

1x4's for $1.66 each, 6 of them.

I felt like I was cheating.


After 5 1/2 years of living in the country, I notice one thing I do differently is how I wash dishes. I have one bucket of water, and a bucket of food scraps.

All dishes get rinsed into the food scrap bucket.

All frying pans etc. get rinsed into the food scrap bucket.

There's NO DISHES TO WASH - cause they all got rinsed.

And the pets LOVE the food. All the spices and tastes mixed together, but no chocolate


Because I pour the food bucket right on top of the primary compost pile, I think there might be an element of Biodynamic to it.

Besides the unique rituals with the horn and the chamomile, etc., I think the essence of Biodynamic is

It makes the animals happy.

 

[Green Squall]

When a deer takes a liking to your yard and you start looking forward to seeing it.

 

[Kozmo]

When you have a raccoon that hangs out with you every night/morning(4-4:30AM) when you get the campfire back going and smoken a bowl.

Big fat one too!

 

[hush]

...When a 3 hour drive one-way is considered a quick trip. I freaking love that about living in the middle of nowhere!