Never thought I'd do that!
Until I moved to the country, I never thought I'd . . .
- Live on 12 acres of land in the middle of a wheat field
- Live almost a mile from my nearest neighbor
- Drive 40 miles to get to the nearest McDonalds
- Have a side of beef in my freezer (including the tongue and heart)
- Have guineas and chickens running around my yard
- Collect fresh eggs
- Wash chicken poop off my daughter's hands
- Grind my own flour
- Ride in a combine
- Know what a combine is!
- Drive on gravel roads to get to my house
- Drive on gravel roads after it rains or snows
- Get my car stuck in the middle of a muddy gravel road
- Plant an orchard in my yard
- Plant 200 iris bulbs in a straight line
- Watch my lawn get mowed by a tractor
- Go to the grocery store before a blizzard hits just in case we get trapped by the snow
- Watch a tractor clear snowdrifts from my driveway
- Feed 7 cats (or more depending on how many tom cats are visiting that day)
- Kill a rattle snake with a shovel
- Kill a rattle snake with a shovel two days in a row
- Hear coyotes howling at night
- Have only the light of the moon and the stars coming through my window each night
Posted by Susan at December 7, 2009 
Categories: Rural Living
Tags: chicken cat star acres haxtun guinea blizzard lawn orchard moon snake shovel life coyote combine store egg tractor rattle drift wheat freezer country colorado snow beef flour iris bulb gravel road field grocery mow
Categories: Rural Living
Tags: chicken cat star acres haxtun guinea blizzard lawn orchard moon snake shovel life coyote combine store egg tractor rattle drift wheat freezer country colorado snow beef flour iris bulb gravel road field grocery mow
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