Nothing At All Against You City Boys...

[phxrock]

@foggymountian, are you in the Kingston, New Paltz area? I spent the first 25 years of life in the Liberty, Monticello areas. My parents grew up in the Kingston area. Someday I will make it back to visit.

I enjoyed the hunting and fishing and living on the farm.
John

 

[okiescout]

Foot of the Osage Hills, White Tail Deer in the front yard Turkey in the back.

 

[brudnod]

Greetings from Great Falls, Va. Great area and we back up to the Fairfax County Park lands. No B&M pipe shop close.

 

[Perique]

Welcome, all, to the country boy thread. Glad to know there are plenty of us out there.

 

[elpfeife]

Nothing against you country boys, but which one of you is the biggest hayseed? :nana:

 

[12pups]

Prairiedruid... there's the Twin Cities and then there's Minnesota. Twin Cities should be a separate state. I live in a small town in SW RURRRRRAL Minnesota. I am the only pipe smoker for at least 60 miles. Good on ya, bro!

 

[12pups]

elpfife... I am a displaced Northwest Iowan. I R the biggest hayseed here.

 

[12pups]

And I'm shitfaced right now, smoking PA in a Sav Canadian, and ain't no one nearby to worry with it. No B&Ms for... well it's incalcuable. I got my PA at a grocery store somewhere far from here, waiting on my next online order. Only way to get good tobacco.

 

[Perique]

I hear ya, 12. Thank God that Al Gore went and invented the internets, or we would all be smoking rough home-cured down here.

 

[mso489]

That old straw about how you can take the person out of the country but you can't take the country out of the person is literally true. In this part of the country, native residents of a certain age who grew up in the country often plowed behind mules. Some who never did, think they did anyway. It's a life that abides in the memory.

 

[jmatt]

I can't recall being as envious as this thread has made me. I live in a subdivision on a one acre lot 20 minutes from the middle of downtown Indianapolis. But my yard is dark and quiet at night and we've had deer, fox, and coyotes in the yard. A week ago I saw a Bald Eagle fly over my house. I'd have lost the bet I'd ever see one of those here.
But I grew up in an Amish/Mennonite community and I was probably into high school before I understood that no - hitching posts at the bank, post office, hardware, and grocery store weren't "normal" in the rest of the world.
I'm an attorney and I always figured John Denver's "Wild Montana Skies" was about my life. Just still waiting to go back to the country.

 

[Perique]

Just still waiting to go back to the country.

It's never too late, jmatt.
And if you have kids, it can't be soon enough. Raise 'em right, raise 'em strong, as they'll inherit a world very different for that which we grew up in.

 

[okiescout]

For 35 years I could not see the real stars because of the glow of lights in the "BIG CITY". Now I am back and you can not only see the normal constellations but the whole ole Milky Way. I had forgotten how beautiful it could be. Or Beaver creek aglow with thousands of fireflies, as bass and carp bust the top water earning a nightly living, while we set lines for blues and channel cats. Driving out to the blind for dove and waterfowl on the pond, or quail, turkey, pheasant, and Prairie Chicken along the fence rows and up in the jacks for White Tail. Yup, you gotta really hate this kind of livin.