We live out in the middle of nowhere basically. If you ever wondered what country living was then Petersburg is your town. It's very small (only one yellow blinking light on the square) but it's beautiful. The only complaint I have is that we live in the bowl between mountains so cell phone service is tricky. I can look out my window and see the cell phone tower and yet there are spots in my house I can't use my cell phone. It's weird.
When my daughter and I first moved out here the first thing we noticed was how quiet it was. Especially at night. You go outside and it's pitch black. The first couple of days we turned every single light in the house on....and then realized...if something spooky out there is looking for something then we've lit ourselves up "Take us! Take us!" so we stopped doing that! There's lots of cows, horses, pigs, goats, chickens, roosters, donkeys, deer, and of course dogs and cats. You can go out at night and hear the cows wandering around in the fields and it sounds creepy. You can't see them but they are there!!
In the Spring there are birds like you've never seen. We have Robins that nest on our house every year. We have humming birds, blue cardinals, red cardinals, grackles, and song birds and they just cover the lawn. We love the birds. They will wake you up in the morning they are so loud.
There are owls but it's hard to determine how many because when it hoots the Mockingbirds start hooting back and it sounds like there are hundreds of them all over the place. I bet that drives the owls crazy.
When you drive somewhere at night you have to be careful because it's likely something will wander out in the road and you'll hit it.
The other night Jennifer and I came home from shopping and when we got out of the car we heard something. We were standing in the driveway in the pitch black and heard howling and yipping...Jennifer was like "What is that??" It was coyotes! We stood there and listened. It was definitely a pack of them and they had young with them. They weren't too far away. It's hard to tell which direction things are coming from because sound echoes off the sides of the mountains. We stood there in the dark staring at each other wide eyed for a good ten minutes and Jennifer said "It sounds spooky." It really was. It was like an episode of Survivorman right there in our driveway.
Those are the times I love being in the country.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
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