Signs You Live in the Country

We are not sure where we live. It is complicated. Technically, we live on several acres in town. However, our place is more like country living and here are the reasons why:

1) No one can find our house, even when given clear directions.
2) In any given week, we see more wildlife or farm animals than people at/in our home.
3) We have chickens living in our house.
4) Many people we know envy us for our shop space.
5) Friends and delivery trucks sometimes cannot make it up our snowy driveway.
6) We have one neighbor.
7) Our other neighbors are horses.
8) We have a little red barn.
9) You need to climb up a stall door to rescue your cats from the rafters.
10) When our neighbor helps plow our driveway, he uses a tractor.
11) Even the tractor gets stuck in our driveway sometimes.
12) I can cross country ski on our property.
13) We have needed to wear snowshoes while going to pick up our mail.

14) We regularly almost hit deer on our driveway.
15) We had lots of mice in our house when we first moved here.
16) You can get a severe case of poison ivy while working in the garden.
17) We know what a fox says.

18) Is this the view of a city-dweller? I think not.

These are the only things I could come up with at the moment but I think it provides a strong case for us being country rather than urban dwellers. I do believe that as time progresses, we will gather even more evidence of this.