What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 03:26 PM
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Posts: 16,758 West Virginia,age 49
cathryn
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I was just thinkin and wonderin whats something yall have done or do that someone who wasnt country wouldn't know how to do?
Or something youve done as a youngin kids today wouldnt have a clue how to do today?
Other than trap.
My first one is ive churned butter.
IF IDIOTS GREW ON TREES THIS PLACE WOULD BE AN ORCHARD !
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Re: What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 03:31 PM
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Spade
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Castrated pigs
Banded calf testicles
24 years Army Medical Corps
I only want to be known as:
A great husband, a good trapper, and a great steward of the land.
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Re: What makes YOU country?
[Re: Spade]
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06/16/22 03:38 PM
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Providence Farm
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Castrated pigs
Banded calf testicles All about the testicles She said county not deliverance. Garden, keep bees, tap maple trees, butcher my Own stock and game Heat with wood and a ll it intails. Make soap use a close line .add on and on. Basically be able to feed yourself with out the grocery if I need to.
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Re: What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 03:56 PM
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FairbanksLS
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Drink water from a mountain stream while at work. Took my bath in a wash tub as a child. We only had cold running water in the kitchen and an outhouse until I was in 4th grade. I still love to pee off the porch.
formerly posting as white dog
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Re: What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 04:01 PM
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chas3457
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I'd have to write a book. Not sure the Boss would appreciate me blowing up T-Man with over use of band width. Charlie
Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.
NRA Life Member ~ GOA Member ~ NFOA Member ~ UNMLA Member
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Re: What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 04:07 PM
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Tom Fisher
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raised and sold fish,shang, goldenseal, made syrup, worked with a trap company testing equipment dug various medicanal roots sold various plants as part of fish managment cut logs for firewood/furniture enjoyed life----gonna have have a good time with whats left of my time---should mention a good wife that put up with me&my schemes
Last edited by Tom Fisher; 06/16/22 04:11 PM.
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Re: What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 04:29 PM
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Bob
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Heck so many things. Held baby deer and carried them out of the path of the swather I was operating many times. Took my kids, 10, 11, and 12 years old camping, hiked in from the road about two miles and set up camp. Made them carry all their own gear. No phone service. Then informed the kids that I (purposely) did not pack any food and very little water, so if they were hungry or thirsty they were gonna have to figure out how to use what nature provided. I told them how to get water from the creek and boil it in the small pot i packed. I did bring a fishing rod, but no bait, so they took it and foraged for bait and then caught their own fish for dinner. Then I said that’s great, here’s my knife, go clean them. They did. And then i said oops, didn’t bring anything to cook them in, guess you gotta learn to cook on a fire with zero modern utensils. And they did. I didn’t help them do any of it, though I did offer small bits of guidance. We stayed two nights up there, they fended for themselves the entire time. I feel like that was good for them, might even do it again and stay longer.
I’ve done many things most city folk don’t do. I’d say the biggest thing that sets me apart from those who live in the city is my connection with and understanding of the natural world. They like to look at nature, where I am a part of nature.
"I have two guns, one for each of ya."
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Re: What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 04:35 PM
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cathryn
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Washed clothes on a washboard and with a wringer washer
IF IDIOTS GREW ON TREES THIS PLACE WOULD BE AN ORCHARD !
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Re: What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 04:38 PM
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ky_coyote_hunter
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Smoking grapevine stems, frog gigging, eating squirrel brains, noodling, catching cottonmouths, potato guns, etc.
Member - FTA
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Re: What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 04:53 PM
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mike mason
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Washed clothes on a washboard and with a wringer washer My mom would do that in the basement. We had 3 soap stone sinks and she would put us 3 kids in one sink with a comforter and use the other 2 sinks to wash the clothes. Then she would carry us outside when she hung the laundry on the lines. Mostly diapers!
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Re: What makes YOU country?
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06/16/22 04:57 PM
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Boco
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Lived off the grid for a good many years before it was known as that-no electricity no running water. Never considered it being "Country"or anything,just normal way to live in the bush.
Last edited by Boco; 06/16/22 04:59 PM.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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