- Fresh fruit is a serious luxury. We have one orange left & are saving it for a special treat.
- We carry no keys around & never lock our door.
- Neighborhood watch means informing your neighbor when you spot a bear.
- We get excited about a new batch of powdered milk.
- Mail only comes three days a week & the lady at the post office knows us by name.
- We installed a satellite on the front of our house for internet.
- I am no longer in great need of Omega-3 vitamins due to our increase in fish consumption.
- I haven't carried a purse in weeks.
- We have a deep freeze on our porch.
- We don't have air conditioning.
- Heavy traffic is three four-wheelers passing our house within the hour.
- Gardening is a priority.
- I only turn a light on to see in the shower. All other times the light from the windows is sufficient, even at midnight.
- Teco chases foxes instead of squirrels.
- I am wondering why I brought sun dresses & shorts. Oh yes, it was for that Hawaiian vacation I am talking CJ into some winter.
- Mosquito repellent is the new perfume.
- Families with multiple adopted children are a beautiful thing.
- CJ can work wonders with a ball of hemp twine & twigs from the side yard. Yea for an entryway shoe rack!
- Getting a hold of someone doesn't mean just calling their cell anymore. It means leaving messages on their land line, post it notes on their front door, searching for them on four-wheelers, calling their relatives, trying to reach them on the radio, and checking in their shed.
- There is only one church in town.
- A can of coke is $2.50.
- We have no paved roads, but two gravel runways.
- I buy everything in bulk.
- The electric company is a co-op & we have meetings once a year.
- I have already received a radio call that the plane CJ was a passenger in was spotted upside down in the river.
- I make all our bread & our ancient gas oven frustrates me.
- My boss heard I had a rough day dispatching & called to make sure I was OK.
- We see planes, boats, a lake & mountains from our kitchen window.
- You have to duck to get up the stairs & crawl to get into the pantry.
- Exercise is so much fun here.
- My commute to work is a 3 minute walk.
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