I listened to the distant lull of heavy equipment machines working all day long. I wasn’t sure where they were coming from, but it made me more aware of the dackels, and I actually walked with them each time they went out. Later on, Hubby went to our Post Office, and discovered that our neighbors, through the woods, were having their new driveway laid today. Ah yes. Exciting times, when someone up here gets a tarred driveway, that is cause for celebration. Most everyone up here has a dirt driveway. A tarred drive is luxury!!
Many people don’t understand what it means to live in the country. We’re about 20 miles each way to the cheapest best grocery store. Mostly, you cannot see your neighbors house from yours during the summer, and in the winter can’t get there, due to the the snow drifts.
The Post Office is the happening place. In the winter when our population shrinks to nearly nothing, it is likely you will meet your neighbor at the Post Office, even if you’ve had to snow shoe there!
Our winter Ice Fishing Derby is one of those great events. Our big lake freezes over and we all try to go on that Saturday and walk around. You can see the various Bob Houses, see the fish that have been caught and even chow down on sausage and onions on a roll, or plain hot-dogs, and hot chocolate.
Of course I have to mention another really positive thing about living in the country in a small town. We had a woman recently who became very ill. She very nearly died. The village people took food to her family, provided gas money for her family and now she is back home they are helping with driving her to doctors appointments. People care.
The other day I got a phone call. Were all my dogs home? Why yes, yes they were, why? Well someone had located a dachshund in town, and they wondered if one of mine had escaped. Eventually we found the owner, but it got me thinking, how lucky we are to have a community like this. For as inconvenient as it is to live in the country, so far from everyone and every thing, the people make it especially nice.
I really love our little town!!!
I love a small town too : ) I also like access to the big city from time to time, but I prefer living in a small town.
I wish I had better neighbors, although I can’t see them with the trees all around me. We have a nice town here and we are close to things too! I love the woods, but I am getting tired of all the critters that like it too! LOL! Love YOU, Mel
Why oh why did I buy a condo LOL!
You know we live in Berlin…really a big city, but, where we live it is like in a smal village area. Unfortunately most of people don´t take care of each other here. Okay, some neighbours help others but after the wall came down a lot of new people entered yards and they live like in the centre of Berlin, no contact to other families. I would love to have such comunity like yours.
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That’s very true ! Our city is small and of course our neighbors besides and across the street, but the community is very nice here in Waterloo, that’s the advantage of little towns, and we are only 15 km away from Brussels.
Beautiful, I love it. It sounds like a wonderful place to live. I’ve never had that but would love to experience living in a small town. Maybe we need to search this out for our retirement.