Life in Idaho...

[handy]

This was forwarded to my email. The ones in red are ones that do indeed apply to me personally!
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they
don't work there, you live in Idaho .

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in
Idaho .

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
dialed the wrong number, you live in Idaho .

If "vacation" means going anywhere north of Salt Lake City for the
weekend, you live in Idaho .

If you measure distance in hours, you live in Idaho.

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you
live in Idaho . (My personal tally is 3.)

If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" and back again in the same day, you live in Idaho.

If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave
both unlocked, you live in Idaho. This needs more thought!!

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard without flinching, you live in Idaho .

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit,
you live in Idaho .

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph -- you're going 65, and
everyone is still passing you, you live in Idaho .

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow, you live in Idaho.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and
road construction, you live in Idaho .

If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly" you live in Idaho .

 

[Mysteryman]

Very similar to Vermont.

We have 1. summer , which lasts 4 days max. 2. fall, which lasts approx 2 months 3. Winter, which lasts approx 7 months 4. Mud season, which lasts for about 2 months depending on how many snow storms we get prior to July 1st. Now, if you add this up, you come up with approx. 11 months and 4 days. I know, there is approx 26 days missing. But Vermont does not count like any other state. We have an old form of math based upon the weather, not the days or months in a calender year. This means we can put the remainder 26 days where the weather dictates it. Either in the fall or the winter, or in the mud season. But never in summer. We still only get 4 days of summer.

We eat what we kill. Road kill included. That is because taxes are high and income is low.

We know our neighbor's by name. However, that does not mean very much. Most of the time you are calling out your nighbor by name in a negative sense. Usually arguing over the fence line and who needs to move the fence on whoes side of the property.

We love to boil liquids here in Vermont, heck, we even boil sap from trees.

Our pets are usually our livelyhood. Here a cow, there a cow, everywhere a cow and a cow. A few horses and pigs.

City folks are those who buy their food in a store. And own a car and call it horse power, while we native Vermonters have literal horses that eat hay and take us where we need to go. City folks invaded our great state. They brought with them modernization. There went the oil lamps !

Here in Vermont, bikes have more authority on the paved roads than do vehicles.

Only city folks have car accidents. Us country folks thumb rides, so we can save money, which we have very little of.

City folks believe in a 40 hour work week. We who live in the country side of Vermont, don't own a clock, and have no idea how many hours in a day or week we worked. Seems like our work is never done, but we keep plugging away at it.

Well, off to grandma's house, see ya'll later. :D