You know you live in the country when...

A few country thoughts,

 

- When the sounds that soothe your soul are the bleating of sheep and the purring of contented hens, you know you savor country lullabies.

 

- When you get your dander up because there's just "so many people at Wal-Mart," (on a Tuesday?) you know you appreciate your country solitude. 

- When the rooster is your alarm clock, you know you live in the country.

 

- When your idea of a privacy fence is a field of cornstalks, you know you live in the country.

- When there's no light pollution but lightning bugs and no noise pollution but the occasional tractor or lowing animal, you must live in the country.

- When you don't wait for Pest Control Services to take care of garden pests, you live in the country.

- When your neighbors use the same "Pest Control methods" you do, you live in the country.

- When passing a buggy (even on a double yellow) is considered acceptable, you know you live in the country.

 

- When you think nothing of buying fruit and veggies at a roadside stand, you live in the country.

 

- When you take note of where the Amish are having church, so you can drive home via an alternate route, you know you live in the country.

- When following farm equipment can make you late for goin' somewhere, you know you live in the country.  (And yet, you wave at the man as you finally drive past.)

 

And my favorite, the unspoken rule,

- When you wave at strangers on the road, in their yard or nearby, as you pass, you KNOW you live in the country.  (Because they wave back, instead of looking at you funny.)