I just love some things about where I live.

[roscoe]

For example, tonight (10:45 pm) I pulled up to the gas pump in a car with no plates.
Hit the pay inside button on the pump, a few seconds later a voice said "go ahead on pump 1".
No prepay, no credit card, no plates, no problem.

I have lived here 15+ years. Edge of town, 2 miles from Walmart, a mile off the highway, so there are plenty of people around, yet I can still count on 1 hand, the number of times I have seen a police vehicle drive by the house.

I've been hearing gun shots all month, and never once did I think anything was wrong.


Last month, a neighbor's dog came around.
I walked him 3/4 mile home, took off his "invisible fence collar", and threw it halfway up the driveway.
The dog ran up the drive to the house, and laid down on the porch. The neighbor waved.


The neighbor to the west, burns only good hardwood in his fireplace.
THe neighbor to the south, burns a mixture of scavenged pallets, scrap lumber, and mixed trimmings from his yard, in his outdoor furnace.
The neighbor to the east, burns mostly pine and popple from his woods, in his outdoor furnace.
So I can pretty much tell with way the wind is blowing by cracking a window or stepping into the porch.

 

[tpenfield]

Re: I just love some things about where I live.

Sounds like a nice place to live . . .

We have been in our house for 20 years and have similar feelings and experiences . . . including the gun shots, as there is a pond across the road where duck hunters frequent.

We needed a bigger house, but loved the neighborhood so much, we just added on instead of moving.

 

[NewfieDan]

Re: I just love some things about where I live.

We don't hear the gunshots where I live but I do hear the horses next door once in a while, and fir works quite often. Been here for only a couple of years, the only time I see a police vehicle is when the town has a parade. It is a very small town so the parade literally goes around the town. Always have people walking by. When I am out in the yard they always wave or say hi and speak. There are no strangers in my town only friends I haven't met. The province I live in is known for their generous hospiltality and it extends to every body notonly visitors to the province.

Perfect example- I was cleaning up after a "tropical storm Leslie" went through. It took all day to remove 2 trees. It wasn't because they were big trees, just the number of visitors that I had never met. They all stopped and spoke about the mess around town, trees down, shingles torn off etc.