Let's talk about Country Living

I concur with everything everyone said and only have a couple things to add.


1) Invest in an outside cat! I know it sounds silly, but you will NEVER Get mice if you have a cat. Only feed it once a day and not enough o fill it. It will find its own food i.e. mice

2) Riding lawn mower. The bigger the better. Zero turn turn if possible.

3) There is definitely the concern of increased fuel consumption. Things we do to help this is do all our errands all at once, once a week. Try to either grow as much of your own food as possible or find a source for bulk food. We used to live close enough to a store owned by Mennonites. It was the cheapest store we ever shopped at. Was a shame we moved too far away from them. I also got a diesel truck and it was way better on fuel than my gas truck.

4) Make sure you have a 4x4 vehicle. When moved into our current house we had a front wheel drive van. We are so BFE out here we are the one of the last roads to get plowed. Also our first year here, even if it was plowed we couldn't make it up the two hills on our road to get home. We'd have to leave it for the next day and walk home with 2 small girls and a newborn.....up those two hills then up our long driveway as we live on a hill also haha. Wifey doesn't like that!!!

5)invest in motion activated outdoor cameras. Someone has let my cows out several times. Once by ramming into a gate post that is NOT accessible from the road!! Then we have to go find them.....usually they stayed home but a couple times they went into the woods and into the fields behind our property.....hope you know how to follow tracks and can tell the difference between a calf hoof and a deer hoof! Just the other day I noticed more tire tracks up through my yard.....I have no idea who it was.

6) if you do raise animals, make sure you are as prepared as possible. Type of fencing is crucial!! Lol!


I love living out here though! I get to do whatever I want. It's great. I can take a deer in my back yard and two years ago I watched a doe give birth in my pasture. It was a nice thing to see. Now I did go on a crow shoot a couple of weeks ago and we started on my property. I heard crow just a few trees in the woods and headed that way. I was almost there when I spotted a doe about 50 feet away. I stopped walking and she took off into the woods so I continued stalking this crow. I got about twenty feet to the woods when all of a sudden I hear this loud SNORT, STOMP, CRASH as a buck charged at me outta the woods..... He stopped just the edge but I about crapped myself I'll tell you what!! Lol!



God made the country, and man made the town. ~William Cowper

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. ~Charles D1ckens



Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid nature.- William Cowper