Country life can be overwhelming on occasion.COUNTRYSIDE: I would like to make some comments about country living. I grew up in the country in the 1940s and 50s, and left home for a military career, which was about the only choice we had then. I came back home 24 years ago with my family. Our oldest daughter went directly to college but the two younger ones grew up in the country. My wife and I have always worked full time jobs. We have managed to get a lot done around our homestead. We always have a large garden and our orchard orchard, generally an area on which fruit or nut trees are planted and cultivated. The words grove and plantation are often used when the fruits are tropical, e.g., a "citrus grove" or a "banana plantation. has done well. We give home-grown home-grown adj → de cosecha propia home-grown adj (= not foreign) → du pays (= from garden); du jardin produce and fruit to our children and family. I spent the weekend harvesting my sweet potatoes sweet potato, trailing perennial plant (Ipomoea batatas) of the family Convolvulaceae (morning glory family), native to the New World tropics. Cultivated from ancient times by the Aztecs for its edible tubers, it was introduced into Europe in the 16th cent. and peanuts pea·nut n. 1. A prostrate southern Brazilian plant (Arachis hypogaea) widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions, having yellow flowers on stalks that bend over so that the seed pods ripen underground. 2. and thinking about all the things I need to get done before winter. The storm left us with many downed trees that I need to clean up, fences need to be built, etc. Lots of people write about leaving it all and moving to the country life. I love living this life but if you have never lived in the country it can be overwhelming. There are always things waiting to be done. You get an acre cleaned up and next spring it will grow up again unless you have goats or a good tractor tractor, in agriculture, vehicle used to pull such equipment as plows, cultivators, and mowers; to power stationary devices such as saws and winches; and to push snowplows and earth-moving implements. with a bush hog (Zool.) a South African wild hog (Potamochœrus Africanus); - called also bush pig, and water hog. See under Bush, Ground, etc. See also: Bush Hog . I think that it would be almost impossible to survive with no outside income. If you had a large family to help with all the work then maybe you could do it but with just two people it is more than you can handle. You still have to have a decent income to just pay taxes and insurance not to mention necessary items to live. My dream has always been to go back to the life I remember in the '50s. I keep trying but I think I will die of old age before I get there. I can tell you that even if we do not reach our goal, the journey will have been worth it. |
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