When you think country living, what do you think of?

**Sara Noel** · 02-12-2002, 09:55 AM

We all have our own idea of what country living is or means to us. What do you think of when you think country living?

Sara

**strawberryfire** · 02-12-2002, 05:31 PM

room for josh to be a kid, and veggies! they are the first things that come to mind!

**COUNTRYBUMPKIN** · 02-12-2002, 07:53 PM

Well Sara, I think of big older homes with wrap around porches and porch swings and wicker furniture and lots of flowers. I think of sitting on my porch with a nice cold glass of lemonade and looking out over the land. I see everything from acres and acres of corn fields to my own huge veggie and flower garden. On occasion you may hear a horse neigh, or a cow MOOOOOOOOOO........LOL!!! Sometimes you may see a rabbit scury by or a groundhog. During the winter months, it gets pretty cold, so you want to make sure that you are well stocked on the fire wood! As there is nothing like sitting by that fire wrapped in a big plush quilt with some hot coco, looking out your french doors and seeing the deer frolicking in the snow. The snowmobiles are ready just in case you might want to take a spin through the big open fields. Or you may want to take one of the horses for a trot for a little exercise!

Ahhhhhh there is nothing quite like living in the country!

**Sara Noel** · 02-14-2002, 02:29 PM

I love listening to the geese as they fly overhead. I miss hearing the fish jump in the lake too. I like the sound of the chain saws for firewood. Gosh, we used to chop and stack for days. *LOL*

I love seeing the glads for sale signs and the fruit and veggie stands.

As a child, we used to shovel the snow off the ice on the lake to skate too.

I like to keep the country in my heart. I just keep telling myself, we are almost "home". I am happy that we are moving to the country. It's not yet our dream house, but we're almost there.

Sara

**aylasmommy** · 03-01-2002, 07:32 PM

I think of lots of green grass and a red barn ..lots of hay..some chickens..baking my own bread..milking our own cow..having a big beat up truck..horses..

**justGina** · 03-01-2002, 10:15 PM

Roosters crowing at the crack of dawn...

The smell of fresh-cut grass...

Kids running around dirty and barefoot...

Iced tea on the porch swing during a hot summer thunderstorm...

Walking in your freshly-tilled garden's cool soil, squishing the dirt up between your toes...

~sigh~

**MANDERS** · 03-26-2002, 11:47 PM

My grandmothers house.Water running in the pond,bird chirping cold ice tea,no tv,family time,warm bowl of chilli or hm chicken noodle soup at dinner.Big garden,open windows,beautiful flowers.

We are saving to build our own home on some land to acheive all of this.I feel so peaceful at my grandmothers.Even my dh felt at home the first time he was there.

**PumpkinNoodlie** · 03-27-2002, 08:08 AM

Welp..I live about as far out as you can get in the mtns. One thing I just lloooovvveeee is the sound of my wooden screen door squeeking open, and then swinging shut! Always reminds me of spring/summer. Just loooveee that sound. I even love that sound in movies LOL!

**Michelle** · 03-27-2002, 08:46 AM

I think of having tons of land, canning/preserving foods, laundry hung out on the line, mostly summer things--crickets "chirping", birds chirping, huge garden, overall a much simpler life. I am so wistful after reading all your posts *sigh*

**KathiS** · 03-31-2002, 06:00 AM

I love reading your posts. I don't live in the country but, I have always wanted to. I think having more room for my pup and the grandkids to run, a big veggie garden and some privacy and quiet, would be just heaven!

**Sophie** · 03-31-2002, 10:19 PM

We've lived in the country since 1996. Being a city girl, the country took a little getting used to. First of all, there's no Dominoes Pizza delivery at 10:00 p.m. LOL.

Once you get passed the bees, the bugs and mosquitoes the size of puppies, you learn to enjoy the peacefulness of it all. In town, we couldn't sleep with our windows open because the noise of the loud cars would wake us and the dks up at night. Now, the windows are open on spring and summer nights. Occassionally you can hear a hoot owl calling to its mate, or tree frogs making music, or the howl of the coyotes in the distance. But its not jarring noise but rather comforting, relaxing sounds.

I also love the sound of the creek running after a good rainfall. Or picking tomatoes off the vine and letting them rippen in the kitchen window. And I especially love picking a couple of jack-o-lantern pumpkins from the neighbors pumpkin patch. They sell them to us at a discount.

I love the daffodils that wave in the wind as we drive up our very long driveway. And the Black-eyed Susan's and Shasta Daisies that grow wild in our field. I love to cut them and make a fresh bouquet for the dining room table.

We have a variety of wild birds that we feed all year long. I especially like the red-headed woodpecker that comes every morning. We have bluebird houses that many bluebirds have nested in. It's a wonderful thing to see a mother bluebird teaching her babies to fly. And the hummingbirds that I feed and watch out my sliding glass doors entertain me every day.
The deer also pay us a visit on a regular basis. They cross from the cornfield on the left side of our property to the creek that runs on our property on the right. We see them with their young
quite often. We don't allow hunting and we don't hunt here also.

I guess you could say that this city girl has fallen in love with the country. That's not to say there isn't alot of work to do here. We own 20 acres of land, 8 acres of that we mow all summer long. The rest is woods for hiking and getting our wood for the fireplace. It's a good life. And I don't miss Dominoes that much. I've learned to make my own pizza now.

**justjenn** · 04-03-2002, 11:29 PM

Originally posted by PumpkinNoodlie
Welp..I live about as far out as you can get in the mtns. One thing I just lloooovvveeee is the sound of my wooden screen door squeeking open, and then swinging shut! Always reminds me of spring/summer. Just loooveee that sound. I even love that sound in movies LOL!

Same here!

**homesteadmamma** · 09-07-2002, 11:03 AM

Another bump.

I think of so many things but the first that comes to mind is my great grannies dilapitated home where only love was shown to her great grandchildren, where flowers bloomed in her garden.

I think of my grandmother's home and where she boiled tea until it was so black it looked like tar, where us kids could run free, collect chicken eggs and watch the dog bring in the cows.

I think of wide open spaces where wheat blows in the wind and turns from lush green to golden tan in the fall, where harvesters work long hours to bring it in.

I think of no fences, where kids run free. Where crickets and frogs are heard nightly and you have wide open skies to watch diamonds twinkling, sunsets so beautiful its breathtaking.

I think of cold water from the well and older people sharing with young.

I think of grainmills falling over and new ones being built, of train tracks no longer in use, of people moving into the city and leaving small town country to die a slow death. I think of families who lived there and wonder what their dreams and goals were and if they ever achieved them.

There are a thousand things that come to mind when I think of country.....gardens, fields of corn ripening in the sun, dug outs where kids swam in the summer, bugs everywhere, night flies twinkling in the beams of our car, moths ready to invade your home.

Awe country living is the life to me!!!

**Kindred-Spirit** · 09-20-2002, 07:43 PM

Country life means hearing a car go by that makes your ears perk up. Even though my road is a busy one for a country road, there are alot of lulls.
Today we were doing our homeschooling and the turkeys were out front. We stopped our reading and went on the wrap around porch and watched them. THATS life, thats learning thats what I love to do.