"you May Be Country If"

[RingDancer]

I live in the country and if I have affended anyone with my posts here!!! My appology's to anyone they have done so too!!! I don't consider my posts to be a joke!!! My pictures are of good time memories!!! And can remember a many of times that ole chevy pulled a ford out of the mud!!! lol!!! And what I call country is being able to joke with your friends and laugh and not having a bunch of squabbling going on!!! And remember the good times you have in the past!!! Fishing with grandad, Riding a 4 wheeler out in the woods and listening to mother nature, with my brothers...Now that is country!!!! I especially like to remember going to my uncles and him cutting a big ole watermelon and us all eating a piece on a nice warm summer afternoon!!! Country is an individual thing!!! So let's hear what might be country to everyone!!!

And sorry if I affend with another joke,that I don't consider one! lol!!!....sorry for any misspelling!!!lol!!!

Seriously if this affends anyone please delete my threads!!!
Pat...Just another country gal Wooooooooohhhhh this has become a monster!!!!!

[JoAnne]

I am with you Pat - if I offended anyone I am sorry. I grew up in the country poor as a church mouse but the one thing we did have was a sense of humor and the love of a good joke. Memories some were good some were not so good. Learning to laughing at ourselves and with our friends was one memory that will always be dear to me. So when you say country - what could be more country than to tell or listen to a good joke.

[RingDancer]

You said it JoAnne!!! That's country...I really enjoyed waternhole's post!!! I know you are country!!! And Free, me and my dad were cleaning up across the road, which is a memory I will never forget the time spent with my dad...even if it was work!!! Him finding 2 vehicles behind the brush he had totally forgotten about!!! Amongst the rest of all his old car collections!!!! That's just country life!!!

Pat

[bigjohn]

hey pat i'm with ya what i posted aint a joke. hell you cant see anothers house from here. cant evan see the road.
btw ya might be country if ya think air condishin comes in a can.
dont laugh but i just got a window ac unit 2 years ago. big an cold.
but heat with wood. an space heaters.

[RingDancer]

Hey bigjohn...sorry but I am
Heating with wood the only way to go now days!!!
That's country!!!

Wonder if any of you have seen a fire truck like this one!!!

My kids getting a little country!!! Boy will they and I love these memory's

Pat

[creekrat]

isnt america beautiful you can live any where you wish,city, country or what ever,be what you want to be.do might near what ya want to as long as granny dont know .why because our for fathers. and men and women today have fought and died to give us choises to do as such.im proud of my roots and more proud to be and american home of the free(till the wife gets home) life is short live it to the fullest....counrty roads take me home ever nite ............creekrat (hatfield and mcCoy counrty)west bye god virginia

[PAPPY]

You pretended a tobacco sled was a ship, the tobacco sticks were harpoons and the tobacco barn was a whale.

PAP was in hopes that this thread would bring back some of the memories that we often take for granted and fail to think about.

My childhood was rough to say the least BUT I wouldn't trade a single minute for any of the times I went through.
Praise the Good Lord that I was born in this country, the LAND OF THE FREE and that I have the choice and no one else as to what I want to be, Who I want to be, Where I want to go and What I want to do.

I appreciate all my FAMILY here at TQ and I know that ALL OF US have memories that we want to share with the Family...Some good...Some Bad but they made us what we are today !

Just reflect on the way it was then and the way it is Now...Some big change don't you think?

Wouldn't trade the good ole days for NOTHING...and BELIEVE IT OR NOT...I STILL LIVE THAT WAY ! PAPPY

[TwoDogsBob]

Wood is still the best way to heat... You get warm when you cut it, when you load it, when you split it, when you pack it into the house, and when you burn it.
Talkin about country, you can always tell when one of the boys up here has a girlfriend cause now there is chew stains runnin down both sides of the truck.
Country is going to town with more than one dog in the truck.
Country is driving down the road and having people wave at you with more than one finger.
Country is when you go on a trip, drive by a stock yard with the windows down and feel homesick.
Country is Saturday morning at the feed store. Ten minutes to get what you need and an hour and a half talkin to everyone you run into.
Country is sitting down to dinner and knowing you grew it all.
Country is spending winter evenings looking though seed catalogs and dreaming of spring.
I was born country, spent 30 years in city life because of employment and family, retired and moved back to the country. Was like putting on a favorite pair of old shoes.. Was back home again.

[PAPPY]

AMEN !

[RingDancer]

You said it well TwoDogsBob!!! That's country!!! Pappy sometimes you have to churn the milk before you get butter...I may not be saying that right but I had the opportunity to help an elderly lady do this when I was young and that is hard work, and help go out and get the fresh eggs from the chicken coupe so we all could have a fresh breakfast and nothing like fresh canned preserves with some homemade biscut's...Sometimes I think we do take for granted how easy it is today and how hard it was back then!!! Memories I will always charish!!! And we all need a reminder every now and then and be thankful for what we have and having your family with you and cherishing every moment you have!!!

Amen
Pappy!!!

Pat