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What makes YOU country? #7606415
06/16/22 03:26 PM
06/16/22 03:26 PM
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West Virginia,age 49
cathryn Offline OP
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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 !

Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606417
06/16/22 03:29 PM
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Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606418
06/16/22 03:29 PM
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east central WI
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Used a one wheel plow to put in and weed grandpa's garden

And had to wait til dad got home when I got in trouble....

Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606420
06/16/22 03:31 PM
06/16/22 03:31 PM
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U.P. Michigan
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U.P. Michigan
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.
Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: Spade] #7606425
06/16/22 03:38 PM
06/16/22 03:38 PM
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Indiana
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Originally Posted by Spade
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.

Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606432
06/16/22 03:43 PM
06/16/22 03:43 PM
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SW Georgia
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Just basic life necessities. I think most on here could live without electricity and provide their own food if it came down to it. I know a lot of folks that would resort to crime if it came to eating or starving.

Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606436
06/16/22 03:45 PM
06/16/22 03:45 PM
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east central WI
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Cut my own firewood and saw up lumber from my woods.
Burn my woods and fields every spring and fall.
Invasive weed and brush control, more than just spraying dandelions. Often takes about 2 weeks or more spread out over the summer.

Lots of city folk do gardens, often times it just the scale of the garden thats different.

Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606450
06/16/22 03:51 PM
06/16/22 03:51 PM
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Harvested Spruce Gum.

Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606458
06/16/22 03:56 PM
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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.


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Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606461
06/16/22 04:01 PM
06/16/22 04:01 PM
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Nebraska, Dawson County
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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. eek




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Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606466
06/16/22 04:07 PM
06/16/22 04:07 PM
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el vado, nm
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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.
Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606476
06/16/22 04:29 PM
06/16/22 04:29 PM
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Northern Nevada
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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.


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Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606483
06/16/22 04:35 PM
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Take of your hat and boots in the mud room. And wash up in the wash basin before dinner aka lunch or dinner. But now a days don't worry bout the dirt.

Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606484
06/16/22 04:35 PM
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West Virginia,age 49
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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 !

Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606485
06/16/22 04:38 PM
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Kentucky
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Kentucky
Smoking grapevine stems, frog gigging, eating squirrel brains, noodling, catching cottonmouths, potato guns, etc.


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Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606491
06/16/22 04:47 PM
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Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606494
06/16/22 04:49 PM
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Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606497
06/16/22 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by cathryn
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!

Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606498
06/16/22 04:55 PM
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Georgia
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Well I know what gee and haw mean. And which way pole beans wrap themselves.


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Re: What makes YOU country? [Re: cathryn] #7606502
06/16/22 04:57 PM
06/16/22 04:57 PM
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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.

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