You know your neighbor's visitors are from the city when...

[prichard]

That smell has never bothered me, even growing up a "city-boy-who-spent-time-in-the-country" type ... except once. I was working for a pipe organ company a few years ago and flew out to Chino CA to install an instrument at one of the then-new mega churches there. It was right across the highway from what seemed like miles upon miles of endless cattle operations. I've never seen so many cows crammed into one area in my life, and the strength of the smell was indicative of just how many there were. When the wind was blowing in from the east, it was almost unbearable. We have some pretty large livestock farms around us, but nothing on the magnitude of what I saw and smelled out there.

I had a similar experience. My ex and I were looking to rent out in the country. We saw a nice house and went to look. It was on a massive pig feed lot. WOW! That might smell like money to the folks that own them but we were gagging. It's all about density.

My wife at the time decided she'd stay in the city.

 

[Thomas]

When I lived in North FL we'd often use the "the old Winn Dixie". Then we'd realize that if you hadn't lived there for years you didn't know the old Winn Dixie

I am across the M&D line so I am gonner bite the hook and sinker :confused2: please explain " the old Winn Dixie"

 

[prichard]

I am across the M&D line so I am gonner bite the hook and sinker :confused2: please explain " the old Winn Dixie"

LOL. WD is/was a grocery chain. I think there might be a few left. Back in the 80s they were going pretty strong and there were lots of new stores going in down the street from an old store, then they'd shut down the old one. In the 90s they fell apart and lots of stores just closed. So there were a lot of "OLD Winn Dixies".

 

[Thomas]

Something like Piggly Wiggly grocery store. :thumbsup:

 

[Omega Woods]

So is mine.

Mine, too!!

And my tractor is worth more that all my cars combined!

 

[Omega Woods]

Most of the meth heads I know about are inner city thugs who have moved to a trailer house out in the boonies in order to set up and manufacture the stuff. Farmers have to guard their Anhydrous Ammonia else they steal it.

Exactly. They need a quiet, secret place to cook and tweak.

 

[Furu]

This thread has brought back many good memories.

We did not have an electric fence checker back in the early 1960's so the only way to verify if the fence was hot or if there was a short, was to touch it. My father taught me how to check it with the back side of the hand. He always said never touch it with the front of the hand so that there was no way that the muscles could contract and cause you to grab it. Just brush it with the back of the hand, never actually touch it firmly until you had first checked it.

 

[turnkey4099]

Yard lights. I am not a fan of them out in the country. In my view all they accomplish is giving the thieves light to work by. Niebor lost a new work pickup loaded with profession electrician tools...parked under a yardlight and not far from the bedroom. Happened sometime after midnight by a couple of run-away juveniles. House was about 150 yards off the highway, had the light not been one, they probably would never have known a house was there. I was sorta thankful thelight was on. My place is right on the highway and only a couple hundred yards from the neighbor. Yep, no yard light. Used to have a motion sensor one but Inever replaced it when it quit working.

 

[California]

Worse yet is the neighbor who bought the place as a weekend getaway, seldom was here, and her yard lights triggered on every wild thing out there. Big nuisance. Then the next owner added little solar footpath lights all along his wavy (why??) entrance road so I see a string of totally useless lights down there when I go out to look at the meteor shower.

I'm beginning to understand the pioneers who moved farther west as soon as they saw smoke from the new neighbor's chimney. But I am west, 10 miles to the Pacific Ocean. There's no more frontier to retreat to.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Now lets look at the map of donor states vs recipient states - The red state ripoff:

... And I found a quote on that page that speaks directly to your blue/red comparison:

"In essence those in blue states are subsidizing those in red states. Both red and blue states appear to be acting politically in opposition to their economic interests. Blue states are voting for candidates who are likely to continue the policies of red state subsidization while red states are voting for candidates who profess a desire to reduce federal spending (and presumably red state subsidization)."

If the statistics include federal payroll, it has a tendency to warp things out of perspective; e.g., it only takes a couple of large air or naval bases and the federal money that they command to make it look like the residents are sucking off the feds, when in fact it is the feds spending money on federal programs that happen to be in our state.