Top Ten Rules for Country Living
(according to me, a Baileywife, who after living in the country for almost 15 years, still has SO MUCH to learn!)
{Hershey and Buddy} |
{a portion of our garden this year!} |
2. Share all that is harvested with your neighbors and family....or for us, our neighbors ARE family! :) Kind of like a free farmer's market!
3. Know the difference between an annual and a perennial. Makes gardening a lot easier. And know the difference in your weeds....makes those itchy rashes less annoying in your life!
{perennials} |
{annuals} |
4.Be willing to re-plant numerous things due to storms, kids, deer, or a certain peacock! Actually witnessed this fellow helping himself to our pepper and zucchini plants, but didn't tell Baileyhusband....I let him believe it was a rabbit in the middle of the night that kept coming back! (hehehe)
{Felipe trying to eat the blooms of our zucchini plant} |
5. Make peace with spiders and snakes- still working on the whole snake thing!
8. Learn to drive a tractor and/or riding lawn mower. Let's face it, no one wants to push mow an acreage. (and you are up off the ground, where there are snakes) This took me many years to get the nerve up to learn a Kubota tractor mower, but now that I did, it is MY JOB.... My mommy-time to myself and listen to the music I want to listen to on my IPOD.
10. And speaking of the farm....You must have animals.... if for no other reason than entertainment.
{Tiny, our gray silkie, half-way through his bath....this makes me LAUGH} |
{no denying who the culprit was that got into the garbage! } |
These next few weeks are going to be FULL of farm entertainment....we are getting ready for our 4H County Fair, so we are knee deep in homemade projects and getting our "Show Animals" ready.
Hope everyone has an awesome family and friends- filled 4th of July Weekend!
~Kim
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8 comments:
I live in the country...but I will NEVER make peace with spiders. LOL :-)
Visiting from Fresh Eggs Daily.
Well between the two of us, we can conquer the world! ;) Thanks for visiting Stacy!
I too have only been in the country for 16 years and I can attest to the accuracy of your rules especially make peace with spiders and snakes and DIRT! Definitely make your peace with dirt.;)Visiting from Sunny Simple Life blog hop. Patrica from dogwoodlanerambles.blogspot.com
Your kind of exercise beats the gym any day!
Amen! I agree May!;)
YES.....DIRT!!! I AGREE!
What is a silkie? And where is the head on that little creature? Makes me laugh too, though I don't know exactly what I'm looking at!
That's a rattlesnake and NOT something you want to make friends with.
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