The View from Blogtown

I just read a blog that had responses from all over the world. How depressing because right now I only have family & friends that ever look at my blog. Wah Wah Wah. Damn, I've been doing this for over a week, where is everyone? I keep telling myself fill or is that file it & they will come. And if you want them to come more than once it better be good. Oh the pressure! But I figure I have like 3 months to figure out what is worth following before I can submit my blog to directories so its just a matter of finding my voice. For me, the tricky part is what I can safely write. What if I write about the people who live around here & they read it? Same for family & friends. And I would so love to share some things about some of the people I know. You know, not to make fun of them but because I just don't get them sometimes. I grew up in a rural area but where I live now is the sticks! Strangely, the area I grew up in is now suburban. The people I remember deer hunting when I was growing up never hung any deer from a tree out in the yard but people do that here-I don't get that.
When we went to the local bank to apply for a home loan, the banker asked us some questions then said for us to call back in a few days. When Jim called he said, "yeah, we drove by it looks good, lets close on the 30th" & then when we wanted to refi after our costs were greater then we thought they would be he said "Well this time we're gona need to see inside." Heehee. I pretty much bet very few people can say the banker came by, took a look at your house & decided on the spot whether or not to loan you money. It's 2008 & stores around here still have counter checks. I'll bet a lot of you don't even know what a counter check is. Its like a starter check you get when you open a new checking account & you fill it out like a regular check but include your bank account numbers & I have not seen them anywhere but at a bank ever! When a big football game happens on Halloween they move Halloween- which by the way treat or treating hours are already mandated by each town but the day officially changes sometimes too..
Once you go into the restaurants around here a few times, you understand why they ask you if you need a menu. They all have the same basic things & then each has two or three dishes the others don't have. From that point on you don't need a menu & you can decide what place to go to based on what it is that you want to eat. New Years Eve is different around here too. The bars all turn a table or two (or for some its the pool table) into a pot luck with food patrons have brought in. Suprisingly enough, some of those places have some damn good food. I had BBQ Green Beans at one of them. Sounds bad right? But...
Take a can of green beans & drain it. Pour it in a cassarole dish and sprinkle on some chopped onion. Pour on some BBQ sauce-I prefer Sweet Baby Rays-and heat it up. The sprinkle on some bacon, fried crisp & crumbled. It's actually quite good & a relief from the green bean cassarole that I've already had too many times during the holiday season. You can even add mushrooms if you'd like. De lish.
So by now, I know that you all envy us, living out here in the sticks in the land that time forgot, but hold onto your hats-this is the piece de resistance-there is not one single stop light in the entire county. Not one. I dare you to try and top that.