Life without the internet

I love living in a small town. I have always been torn between my wanderlust and my desire to put down roots in smalltown, USA.

Right now I’m leaning toward the small town.

I love my small town life right now. I work in a restaurant where I get to know a lot of the “locals”.

I attend church with my neighbors. People who literally live next door or a block away. Of course that also means that when those same neighbors are fighting and cussing at each other, I get to hear all of the drama.

Friends and neighbors give me tomato plants and squash plants. One man who comes into the restaurant came over and rototilled my garden for me. Another guy from the restaurant is lending me his weed-eater. The neighborhood kids charge 5 bucks an hour to weed-eat my backyard. Granted, they don’t do a great job, but it’s still worth it.

Not to mention the computer and digital camera that customers have given to me.

At church on Sunday, Sue, one of the ladies who lives up the street told me about her favorite memory of my grandma. Every summer, my grandma would have a Vacation Bible School in her front yard for the local kids. My grandma would go around the neighborhood ringing a bell and announcing that VBS was happening, and Sue was so fascinated that she had to send her kids to VBS.

I entered a pie in a contest at the rodeo. And when I came to work the next day, everyone at the bar already knew that I had won first place in the contest. (I also won a $100 gift certificate to a kitchen store!!) I was SO stinking excited…about having the best pie, but also for the gift certificate. (It was a strawberry-rhubarb pie.)

I moved to this little town over 3 years ago, never wanting to stay. But here I am three years later loving it…and unfortunately probably having to leave it…well at least this house.

But I’m enjoying it while I can. I’ve been spending a lot of time gardening. Yay! And maybe getting chickens soon! And I have been reading the Anne of Green Gables series, and the Little House on the Praire series. Both of which make me want to be more industrious and homemakey (it’s totally a word ) .

I’m such a country girl at heart.