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Consider this quote from Abe Lincoln
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
A good dose of the farm life from the State Fair and having a wonderful conversation with a farm friend made me think of how grateful that I have been, to grow up in the country. It made me think of all of those things that are unique to those of us country kids. So here to take you down memory lane is a few of the things that maybe you can identify with if you grew up on a farm.
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If you have ever gotten an orange or a toy made out of wood at Christmas.
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If you know the difference between dinner, supper and lunch.
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If you can recognize when someone is canning green beans or tomatoes just by the way the breeze smells.
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If you ever laughed at your friends or family when they would sit in the driveway afraid to get out of the vehicle while your dog walked circles around it.
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If you know the feeling of having your fingers in the mouth of a bottle calf.
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If you’ve ever been hissed at by barn kitties.
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If you refused to eat a meal because you knew the meat was from your 4-H project.
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If you ever “borrowed” gravel off of the road to fill the potholes in your driveway.
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If two of your favorite smells are fresh cut hay and plowed soil.
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If you ever listened in on your neighbors phone conversations.
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If you tried to go for a walk down the road and had every one of your neighbors stop to give you a ride home.
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If you ever went to town before a snowstorm to buy milk and bread.
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If you can give the weather forecast for the next few days without having to look it up.
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If you learned how to drive at age 10.
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If your family vacation consisted of visiting your aunt and uncles, or a livestock show.
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If you learned to go to the bathroom outside before you would use the toilet.
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If you know that you don’t need a leash to walk beans.
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If you thought town water tasted “funny”.
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If you ever got lost in a cornfield.
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Finally…you know you grew up in the country if you ever fixed a vehicle with a piece of electric fence wire or baling twine.
See you next week….remember, we’re all in this together.