re: What are the most "country" things about you?

I grew where "go play" required no toys or electronics, and a tick check after taking off your muddy boots/shoes when it was time to come in.

There have been many moments in my life that perfect due where I was and the people I was with. No man made luxery could have made those moments more perfect.

I've always believed in helping others but never expected the same. Self reliance was instilled from a young age.

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I grew where "go play"

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Meant you had better be back before dark or else.
Frickin' kids don't know what they're missin'. I feel bad for them.

I should make note of my love for a pretty cotton field. Ain't no city slickers would understand.

I use my knife in restaurants to cut steak. Sometimes the knives they give you suck.

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castrated some bull calves

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Hard to castrate the others, right?
Fish, it was +50 years ago for me.

I can start a fire with one match or less.

I catch turtles, clean and eat them.

I've never come close to stepping on a snake because I always watch where I put my feet.

I cook without recipes.

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I have frequented some bucket o blood shite holes and look like I was supposed to be there. Have what most would consider a lot of tattoos, frick is my favorite wold in the world, I saw almost everything in my freezer when it was alive, if there's not a dirt dobber nest above my head at the deer camp I just can't sleep right, I have more pocket knives when I have socks, I have gone more then 3 years in a row without even owning tennis shoes, the only reason I don't have an epic beard is because my wife said it smelled like a cheeseburger and quit giving me the pussy, I have to wash the chicken shite off my eggs before I cook breakfast, my breakfast sausage is just like I like it cause I made it, I have a can of snuff in every room of the house, my 2 year old already has a 2 rifles and some orange ear muffs as well as a deer head in his bedroom.........I can keep going, but I need to go stir the pot.

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I already posted this in the other thread before I saw this one, but I'll expand.

I have woke up on a cold winter night and heard bitties chirping by the heater, I have eaten an animal that I named, I know just how stupid a horse is, I've worn handcuffs outside of the bedroom more then once, I know that when you shite talk an old man around the camp fire you better look to get cut cause he's too old to take an arse whipping, I've spent more then one night in the woods cause we were either broke or stuck, I've shot a dog cause he could no longer do his job (and did it with respect), I used to think a cool whip bowl was a cereal bowl. I've run trap lines and know you don't do it with a gun in your hand, not only have a never had a lift on a daily driver, but I can out drive most "rednecks" in a 2 wheel drive yota. I've lost friends over a deer stand. I know not to drive any four wheel drive without power steering with your thumbs in the wheel. I know what a broke axle sounds like and how to get it home to fix it. I can fix it. I rarely buy anything if I can build it even it costs more to do so. I can weld pretty damn good for a guy that wears scrubs to work. I know how to can just about anything and value mason jars like they were gold.

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Unlike some "country" folk who need to call themselves rednecks to try and establish just how country they are, I won't try for none of that. I just like what I like, and that's a life in the outdoors away from the city and people. I never overlook a good sunrise, I like the simple things

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That's how I am. Raised in the city but love the woods and the water. I moved to the water when I got the chance and would move to my 40 in the woods if I could afford it, job-wise. I like simpl things, too.

I eat cornbread and milk.

The last time I cleaned my truck out I found 11 boxes of shotgun shells.

I can fix many things with a pocketknife and tape/super glue.

I've eaten pretty much every critter in Louisiana.

My wife doesn't mind the kids having snakes,lizards, turtles, squirrels, etc in the house.

Pawpaw showed me how to shoot a sick cow when I was 6.

Been driving a manual transmission truck since I was 9.

I plant around 60 tomato plants every year, just to can and give away to people.

My kids ask for okra and tomatoes as a treat.

I shave with my dead PaWPaw's razor.

I have a record player and a collection of country albums from before I was born I listen to regularly.

I grab catfish with my hands.

I have 3 daughters named after grandmothers.

At some point in my life I have made my own wine and grown my own smoke.

I still hunt and fish with my father every weekend.

I've had the better half of my arm inside a cow on several occasions.

I've dipped in church.