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Pardon me but I'm a little irked.

I live in a small quiet town, or what used to be a small and quiet town.  If you want to go to a big store, you better figure on driving for 20 minutes in one direction or 3 hours in any other direction. 

We like it quiet, we grew up here. It's home.  We know the community.  We know our surroundings, wildlife, weather, all of it.

Then come those from the city to make their homes here.  It's nice that they can afford to buy the property above us in our little canyon and build the big fancy houses but... remember, this is a county road, not well maintained, very narrow, and lots of animals (wild and domestic) cross the road at any given time, day or night.

My kids get on and off the bus at the bottom of our driveway.  Every day, like clockwork, a herd of deer cross the road just a few feet away from the bus stop at 3:00. 

One of our 4-5 new neighbors has a 17yo boy who drives up and down this road like a demon.  Actually, so do ALL of them.  They have absolutely no regard for others that have to share the road with them. 

I was standing out on my porch today watching the deer cross and waiting for the bus to drop my kids off when this boy comes barreling up the road like nobody's business (speed limit is 35 and he was going probably 60 with snow and ice on the road.)

An unlucky deer crossed in front of him, right at the bottom of my drive way.  He stopped, kinda had to since there was deer all over his pretty new truck, and cussed a blue streak so loud I think everyone down town could probably hear him.  I sure heard every word.  He gets back into his truck then and continues up the road, not much slower than before either. 

He left the dead deer carcass in my driveway.

Had it been anyone else, I would have called his parents and ask that he come clean up his mess from my driveway since my young kids will be getting off the bus any minute and I really don't want them having to see this gore but, last spring, this same kid intentially tried to run over one of my dogs.  I called his parents and asked them to please ask him to slow down going up and down the road since there are so many kids and animals.  They acted like I had accused them of killing someone. 

So... I called the game warden instead and he came right over to assess the carnage.  He then called the police and the police went up to the kid's house. 

Guess what... The city folk got a lesson in cleaning up guts and gore.  Police made boy and dad come clean up the mess and gave the boy a ticket but I don't know what the ticket was for. 

So....

If any city dwellers decide to move to the country, it should be known that we mostly live on primitive roads.  They get plowed last, if at all, in the winter.  We have lots of animals roaming around to and fro across the roads, if we have more than a foot of snow overnight, the garbage men will still likely come on the right day so don't scream and yell because you thought it would be a day late because of the snow.  We do NOT have snow days for less than a foot of snow.  My yard is not your drive by garbage can and.....

We country folk know how to read and write too so we CAN and will take a plate number and turn it in to the police when we see you driving through private property, destroying said property, or speeding and you do NOT own the road.

As a matter of fact, that property up the road from us.... WE OWN the road and were nice enough to allow access to those property owners.  We also own the property on both sides of the road here too and the county has an easement through our property. 

If we wanted to be really nasty we could fence our property up there where those new houses are and they wouldn't have a way in or out.  We wouldn't do that but we sure could.

I'm just really steamed right now.

Thanks for posting this.  This smells so wonderful. 

x

Wait, I think it was from the barefoot contessa show, I saw her do that but not in a crockpot. 

(We are looking for a place to buy chickens locally as I still believe no animal has to suffer for me, smile!)

Just because I am lazy, is that recipe already posted here, can I do a search to find it? 

Thank you everyone!