"you May Be Country If"

[norris]

Your very welcome neighbor. If you weren't so far away, I'd love to come over, and have some with you.

[PAPPY]

If you have to get out like I did this morning and look for the cow that got out last night...LOL..Found her Boobie !!!!

P.S. Cost me $40.00 for the salve I had to get to put on her cut after she got out and wandered away

[creekrat]

you mite be country if your alarm system looks like thisin ..

[PAPPY]

You got the RAZOR STRAP on the wall if you didn't behave !

You caught horny heads with red worms and a cane pole.

You tried to tie a tight knot in "Love Knot" vine (dodder) to see if she really loved you.

You know that the best way to grow something is just to throw the seeds out into the wind.

Your favorite pets have been green anoles you have caught in your backyard.

[PAPPY]

CREEK, That's a RICH FOLK ALARM SYSTEM...I only got a 3 dog system !!!

[norris]

*A rooster crowing wakes you up every morning.
*You smoked grape vines out behined the barn.
*You go squirrel hunting with a single shot .22 rifle.
*Your Gran Ma played records on an old Victrola.
*You went fishing for suckers with a cane pole, and string with a wire loop on it.
*You washed your truck on a rock slab in the creek.
*Your pick up has cattle racks in the bed.
*You own a hat with a carbide light on it.
*You put a forked stick around your cows head to keep her from sticking her head through the fence.
*You have a bucket with a nipple on it.

[diggummup]

Okay,after reading all 24 pages,I got a few things to add.That alone qualifies for being country! Alot of times being country also meant being poor,so keep that in mind when you read this.I will say that this is all true and some of it is sorta related to some things already said but only indirectly.So here goes-
You might be country if you ever lived in a converted turkey coop.
You had to use the neighbors well down the road cause your's was dried up.
You ever had to take a bath in the pond that you dug last summer.
You have a kitchen sink but you had to use water from the cistern to wash dishes with.
Your mom preferred a wringer washer over one of those "newfangled" things.
The flies outnumbered the skeeters around the house in the summertime.
You used a coke stove to heat the house cause the chimney has "stuff" cloggin it up.
You ever woke up with your glass of drinking water frozen solid next to you.
You ever eaten Kale and liked it.
You call soda a "pop"
You know that "feed corn" is for the cows
Ever drank shine that was filtered through an old car radiator and lived to tell about it.
You ever had to go to the bootlegger to get something to drink.
Ever got "nicotine poisoning" from housing burley.
You could cut 1000 sticks in 8 hours.
You don't know that a ground squirrel is a chipmunk.
Your related to the Wilburn brothers and didn't know it until last year.
And last but not least,You might be country if you have a patch of wild hemp growing on your property and the law knows about it cause they "kill" it every year and it still grows back like it has for 200 years.
That's a few off the top of my head,i'm sure there'll be more to follow.Great thread Pappy!

[PAPPY]

HEY NORRIS...Thought about you this morning at Breakfast...LOL..Had country ham, red-eye gravy,grits, homemade biscuits and homemade blackberry jelly and fresh butter...UMMMMMMMMMMMM GOOD

[norris]

Sounds good Pappy.
Today is Thurs. We had a big ice storm here on Fri. Hardly any power for a 50mi. radious. I guess I could say, " You Might Be Country If" you don't have electricity in your house. I just thank my good Lord for my wood stove, and plenty of wood to burn in it. Just got power back here Wed. evening, but still thousands of folks without any. Sure could have used soom of that good breakfast you had.
This is the worst I've ever seen. It's like Herrican Katrina, only solid water instead of liquid. Everthing is torn up, most trees are destroded. Trees falling on houses. Last I heard, there were 47 people killed. Lots of people without heat, or water. Temp. in the single digits at night, and teens in daytime.
If anyone on Treasure Net has a minuets time tonight, please Pray for us. We need all the prayers we can get.
Thanks to all.
Norris:

[PAPPY]

NORRIS, Certainly glad that you all are o.k.. Been through the same thing before and it AIN'T NO PICNIC ! All of you are in our prayers. Keep us informed as to how things are