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

[Pinball Wizard]

Flashback: aka Uncle Slim

Flashback: aka Uncle Slim

Uncle Slim taught me that the southern history books are correct.

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.

ps: he grew his own chewing tobacco, nobody; including his wife, never seen him spit)

 

[St. Phatty]

One thing I notice about living in the country is that fence building becomes part of your daily routine. That right there is an Almond tree.

This is a picture of my Fence Building Tool box, before re-filling. It's a padded shipping box that may be familiar looking to some

Actually, that particular size & shape of padded shipping box might help me FINALLY organize my wrenches, sockets, etc.

Just added some cotton string. I notice that cotton string has gotten WAY more expensive. You can easily pay $2.50 for a spool of cotten string.

I like to get them at the dollar store.

I have a small apple tree that is finally getting going, but it's leaning which puts it close to the deer's mouth.

I could build a "leaning tower of whatever' deer fence to protect it. Anyway, that why I went to get the cotton string, to pull the Winesap apple tree back towards the center of its space.

They were 100% stripped & devoured last year. I only had a 3 foot high fence. All summer long, the deer were eating them down to nothing.

I am very pleased that about 80% of the abused trees are sending out buds and sprouts. Now I have to do my part of the job and give them 6 foot fences.

The fences are a foot off the ground so the chickens can get in there and scratch and POOP.

So here I am in the spring setting up my apple trees' chicken poop buffet for the summer.

 

[Stoner4Life]

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

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

 

[Robrites]

 

[Stoner4Life]

one for the ladies.......

 

[Stoner4Life]

I believe this lil' piggy used to live in the country,
probably now headed to his first (& last) barbecue.

 

[Stoner4Life]

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

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


everyone gets wood from the farmer's daughter

 

[Bud Green]

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

you don't get your wood from the farmer's daughter... She gets her wood from you...

 

[Stoner4Life]

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

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

 

[armedoldhippy]

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"some odd lookin' cows in the front yard, huh..."

 

[kaochiu]

Today i ate a very hearty stew of ivory beans, then went walking to see the cows and had a joint and tonic water to help digestion. While i was walking i belched like thunder and farted in hi fi stereo. You can't do that if you live in town. In town you constrain belches and farts, and that might be a very polite thing, but it's unhealthy. You know you live in the country cos you can fart and belch without bothering citizens.

 

[St. Phatty]

Today i ate a very hearty stew of ivory beans, then went walking to see the cows and had a joint and tonic water to help digestion. While i was walking i belched like thunder and farted in hi fi stereo. You can't do that if you live in town. In town you constrain belches and farts, and that might be a very polite thing, but it's unhealthy. You know you live in the country cos you can fart and belch without bothering citizens.

I think that the communities that are the most comfortable discussing the realities of life that affect the sciences of Energy and Botany/ Farming, will be the ones that weather the next century the best.

For example, night soil is a fertilizer that uses the least energy, and still makes a good plant fertilizer.

That it stinks is a function of human genetics.

How to compost it without creating a culture for flies - that would make a good Google interview question.

 

[Betterhaff]

I’ve been digging in the dirt since I’ve been crawling and do believe it’s helped me. My curiosity with seeds and plants led me to more digging.

I swear my immune system is better and more tolerant.

 

[420somewhere]

I thought everyone ate dirt as a kid

 

[moose eater]

.. and worms...

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Ha. Back when the kids were young I asked them what they wanted for lunch at school one morning.
One of them was being shitty and said "bark and worms".
When he opened his lunch that day that's just what was in it. Bark,dirt and worms. LOL.

 

[St. Phatty]

You bang the spatula on the cutting board, to send the ants flying.

You flip the hamburger with the spatula.

When the BarBQ sauce you put on the hamburger kicks in, you start sweating.

It becomes a contest between Sweet Baby Rays and Bulls Eye barbecue sauces.

In between the burger and the fried potatoes, you smoke a little bud.

 

[moose eater]

You plant Heavenly Blue Morning Glory flowers in the flower beds, 'cause you figure the moose, squirrels, birds, and other critters probably like to trip every now and again, too.

 

[Stoner4Life]

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

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

 

[Betterhaff]

You plant Heavenly Blue Morning Glory flowers in the flower beds, 'cause you figure the moose, squirrels, birds, and other critters probably like to trip every now and again, too.

One pack of Heavenly Blues I bought came up deep purple, flowers were smaller too. Must have been wrong packaging or somebody missed the cross.

I’ve planted seeds from some Heavenly Blues I’ve grown and the results were same as above, volunteers too.