View from my office today...

[TripleR]

Beautiful places! I've driven around Missouri a good bit, and your place, triple, looks just like where I've been. Man, to be able to drive a 4 wheeler, horse, tractor around on some acreage must be nice! I run out pretty quick on my 9 acres!

It's funny, but when I was growing up on our family farm, all I could think of was how nice it would be to see that place in the rear view mirror and see the big city. Living in KCMO then a smaller town soon cured me of that and I couldn't wait to get "home" and get more land.:laughing:

Incidentally, my dad loved Mississippi and lived in Gulfport and Biloxi for a while then settled in Jackson, MS for about thirty years.

 

[DieselnHooters]

It's funny, but when I was growing up on our family farm, all I could think of was how nice it would be to see that place in the rear view mirror and see the big city. Living in KCMO then a smaller town soon cured me of that and I couldn't wait to get "home" and get more land.:laughing:

Incidentally, my dad loved Mississippi and lived in Gulfport and Biloxi for a while then settled in Jackson, MS for about thirty years.

Do you consider your area as part of the South, I know the bootheel definitely is but it tapers off pretty quickly from say Sikeston heading north. Cape G. seems like the upper limit where you can hear a twang and get some some southern food and such but its overall more Midwest IMO.

 

[MBTRAC]

Great photo's guy's.
Nothing so pretty from this end of the world - our office chair/view changes according to the various "seasons" (throughout the year multiple cropping "seasons" being spraying, cultivation, seeding, harvest......etc. provide a landscape of various shades of browns, greens & yellows):- .

 

[TripleR]

Do you consider your area as part of the South, I know the bootheel definitely is but it tapers off pretty quickly from say Sikeston heading north. Cape G. seems like the upper limit where you can hear a twang and get some some southern food and such but its overall more Midwest IMO.

To be honest, I never thought of where I live as part of the south and didn't realize I had an accent until I lived in Kansas City, MO. I worked downtown with our zone the Missouri River on the north, I-35, I-435 and the Kansas border and for the longest time, when I introduced myself I mostly heard, "You ain't from around here are you"; after I acclimated to the "big city" I moved home and when I introduced myself I heard, "You ain't from around here are you".:laughing:

I live between Sikeston and Cape, so I guess I am in the transition zone so to speak, but you are right, there is a definite transition in this area in speech patterns.

We once had a New York City Detective come down here on a case and we just about needed a translator. :laughing:I don't know if there is a difference in speech patterns between the city and where adirondactmtnman lives, but some other states there sure is a difference.

 

[TripleR]

Great photo's guy's.
Nothing so pretty from this end of the world - our office chair/view changes according to the various "seasons" (throughout the year multiple cropping "seasons" being spraying, cultivation, seeding, harvest......etc. provide a landscape of various shades of browns, greens & yellows):- .

That sure looks like some good cropland; love to watch the harvest.:thumbsup:

 

[TripleR]

The weather's warming up here in the Adirondacks. The songbirds are singing, the land is greening up and this is the view I get the privilege seeing everyday.
I'm a lucky man to have a loving family and this fine piece of dirt to call my own and pass down the generations...Life is good fellers...

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Would love to see more pictures of your little piece of heaven if you have them.

 

[Bird]

It's funny, but when I was growing up on our family farm, all I could think of was how nice it would be to see that place in the rear view mirror and see the big city.

I can sure understand that, at least partially. I used to go visit my maternal grandparents in Oklahoma City and then we went to the State Fair of Texas in Dallas every year, and I definitely had no desire to live in a city as big as either of those, even in the late 40s/early 50s. But I was 14 when Dad's job transferred him to Marlow, OK, and he rented a house in town. Now we still had a big vegetable garden, a big yard to mow, and chickens, but no milk cow, no hogs, no fruit trees, no bee hives, no horse, etc. I loved it, and as I told lots of people, city kids have no work to do. If they have to carry out the garbage, they think that's work, but they really don't even know what work is.

 

[adirondackmtnman]

To be honest, I never thought of where I live as part of the south and didn't realize I had an accent until I lived in Kansas City, MO. I worked downtown with our zone the Missouri River on the north, I-35, I-435 and the Kansas border and for the longest time, when I introduced myself I mostly heard, "You ain't from around here are you"; after I acclimated to the "big city" I moved home and when I introduced myself I heard, "You ain't from around here are you".:laughing:

I live between Sikeston and Cape, so I guess I am in the transition zone so to speak, but you are right, there is a definite transition in this area in speech patterns.

We once had a New York City Detective come down here on a case and we just about needed a translator. :laughing:I don't know if there is a difference in speech patterns between the city and where adirondactmtnman lives, but some other states there sure is a difference.

I'm up way up north about 25 miles or so from the canadian border so our 'twang' has an awful lot of french canadian influence. Very different from NYC/Long Island. The capitol region near albany seems to have some hints of NYC in it, while central NY/ Syracuse are pretty neutral, and west of there has a bit of a fargo/midwest flair to it. Amazing how our language does that IMO...

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[adirondackmtnman]

Would love to see more pictures of your little piece of heaven if you have them.

Here you go TripleR...a few photos from home...






























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[TripleR]

Here you go TripleR...a few photos from home...


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Great pictures, thanks for posting, I always wanted to travel through that area in the fall but never made it.

Love the picture of your little partner; love kids.

"Ever ride a fat boy---want to." Cracked me up, I have to tell my wife that one.:laughing: