The Boondocks Otherwise Known As Boonies
@PainsOnSlate (21845)
Canada
December 6, 2015 2:22pm CST
I have often written about my daughter and her living in the boonies. She went to university in a fairly big city and now works in that city but she wanted peace and quite in her home life so she found a place in the boonies. She loves gardening and growing chickens and pets that can roam.
She is surrounded by farmers fields, lakes, forests, swamps and tons of Canadian Shield rock. The whole area is rural, with the occasional house planted where people can live in peace and quiet. There are swamps, and beaver dams, turkey vultures and deer. She loves her home and space.
Her partner is a builder with saw mill. He has helped to up-grade her 150 year old home and built her a new shed. Just recently he tore the old porch off the house and built a huge one in its place. They found interesting things in the walls, old wall paper, square nails, and a hammer were just a few.
My grand-dog Zuzu loves to sit on the porch and day dream. The photo above my daughter sent me (and used with her permission) shows her Christmas decorations on the porch and the dog enjoying the night.
I love my grand-dog. (and my daughter)
If you look on line for a dictionary description of Boondocks and Boonies you will find: The sticks, in the middle of no where. Usually associated with living out in the country.
I grew up in the country and my daughter was a small town girl, now she is a country girl. Are you lucky enough to live in the country??
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
6 Dec 15
I'm in a small town but have a country feel because of the green space (woods) behind my house. I can see why you like it. It sound wonderful.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
6 Dec 15
@JudyEv I see that here too, what used to be orchards are now housing developments.
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@JudyEv (381942)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate We have friends with a few acres in the middle of suburbia. It used to be a very rural area but they are now gradually getting more and more built out.
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@Juliaacv (56199)
• Canada
6 Dec 15
Both my husband as well as myself, grew up in the country on a farm. His family owned a very small farm whereas my family farmed around 1300 acres. We raised our son in a rural village, so he had other kids near to play with but no back door neighbours.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
7 Dec 15
@juliaacv do you hire people to help you in that big of a farm?
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@Juliaacv (56199)
• Canada
7 Dec 15
@hereandthere No my family, consisting of 2 men, work it. The equipment today is so sophisticated that it does most of the work, there is GPS on the tractor so that they drive straight when planting and other gadgets to help.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
7 Dec 15
That is the way i would like to live but I like this small town now too. Actually that acreage would scare me, I had a friend in Kansas who's whole family left home in May and started in Texas and went up the country cutting wheat. The ended up in Canada to finish the job months later. Huge machines used to do it with all the modern things you mentioned above. Sounded fascinating to me.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
6 Dec 15
My wife grew up on a dairy farm in a bucolic island of farmland in between Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA. She would rather be out in the country anytime and loves going camping because it gets us out of the city.
I grew up on the outskirts of Wilmington, NC near the beach and prefer a deserted stretch of beach or a calm stretch of river.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
7 Dec 15
@dwdavis you are both nature people.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
7 Dec 15
@DWDavis Me too, outside and water to watch and play in is my happy place too.
@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
6 Dec 15
I saw a photo on Facebook of Zuzu just sitting there during the day..wondered what she was waiting for.. I love the night shot. Glad you did too.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
7 Dec 15
I keep forgetting our friends are from every where. I need to ask better questions with room for all of us...Thanks for reading and your comment.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
7 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate I keep forgetting our friends are from every where. I need to ask better questions with room for all of us not really. to me, there wasn't anything "wrong" with your questions, it's understandable, and what you wrote was so good and you were earnestly sharing. sometimes it's how you word it, sometimes i think it's personal perception.
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@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
7 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate Sure no problem. I think I'm the only one on an islands. So I was just being funny.
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@FibroGodess (540)
• United States
6 Dec 15
I grew up and spent most of my life in the "boonies". I've never felt comfortable in the city. *be well*
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
7 Dec 15
I love a country setting too. No cities around here.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Dec 15
I grew up just a few kilometers from where I live now. What used to be a pasture is what separates it from where I live now. It used to be outside the city limits and we had chickens and a huge garden. I miss it a lot. Live in an apartment now. It was a great childhood.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
7 Dec 15
@hereandthere ..I bet it is lovely too.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
7 Dec 15
@celticeagle there are many places here near the capital where rice fields have become subdivisions (residential areas)
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
7 Dec 15
We had similar childhoods, Gardens, chickens, country life but once married that didn't work anymore, We've lived in lots of small towns, all over the US and in Canada. No cities for me but small towns are ok..
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
7 Dec 15
i remember boondock has something to do with bundok in our language
i remember you're an artist so you're a country girl who is helping to share the beauty of nature to the world. 
i haven't seen pretty christmas ornaments like those. how did your daughter make them? is she an artist too?
i haven't seen pretty christmas ornaments like those. how did your daughter make them? is she an artist too?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Boondocks (disambiguation). A road in the boondocks of Pennsylvania State Game Lands Number 13, Sullivan County, Pennsylvania The boondocks is an American expression that
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
7 Dec 15
@sol_cee swinging from tree to tree to find jane? 
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
7 Dec 15
@hereandthere I know in the construction of the porch it was wired for LED lights, these take very little electricity and last a long time. My daughter loves to decorate her home for all seasons. I will ask her if she made them or bought them, I think she bought them...
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@GreatMartin (23670)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
7 Dec 15
"(and my daughter)" Glad you added that!
I love to visit the boondocks but I have to live in the BIG city!!
I love to visit the boondocks but I have to live in the BIG city!!2 people like this
@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
7 Dec 15
i like the conveniences of city living, too, and how accessible everything is, but have simple tastes.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
8 Dec 15
I like to visit cities once in a while but I've only lived in a big city for a short time (college) my life has always been country or suburban. I enjoy the quiet and calmness of the country,
@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
8 Dec 15
I grew up in upstate New York and we called it the boonies there too. Any place that is Rural makes me happy.
@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
8 Dec 15
@paigea it is also impacting the value of the Canadian Dollar. We are changing some US Cash into Canadian because of the difference. The building started about 5 years ago. My son in law goes out there with his big machines when things slow down for him here. He's there right now.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
7 Dec 15
I've never spent any time in Alberta. I do know it is a big farming province and I know the Rockies are there in the west . I understand there is a building boom going on too. I've only flown over it.
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@paigea (36143)
• Canada
8 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate I will have to check on that building boom? Everyone is complaining about the slump in oil; that affects about a third of the businesses here.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
7 Dec 15
that definitely is a good image of the country life; the dog mesmerized by those Christmas lights. I am a country girl, and I don't aspire to live in the big cities. I might get lost with the hustle and bustle of the busy streets and many people.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
9 Dec 15
Me too, I enjoy the quiet and calm of a small town.
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
9 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate besides, I had an experience when I overslept in a bus and I 'landed' on the next province in the capital city.
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@Namelesss (3364)
• United States
6 Dec 15
Love the photo. I grew up in the woods mostly which some might describe as the boonies. I think of the boonies as that cleared place in the middle of nowhere where you have a few neighbors so that wasn't me. Middle of the woods, no neighbors, at least not close ones. But I lived near the ocean my first 8 years of life. I'm def. a small town country girl.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
8 Dec 15
I love living in the woods too. its so peaceful. Somehow I knew you would be a country girl!
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Dec 15
Hi Marilyn, how have you been. Heather talked me into joining and yours is the first post I read. Pretty unsure how to proceed with this but I'm sure I will learn.
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
7 Dec 15
and how do I follow someone hmmmm can't find an answer for that
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
7 Dec 15
@fishtiger58 OMGosh! It finally sunk in. I know who you are. I just commented on Garden Gerty's post knowing I knew you but couldn't place you. Welcome to this site, Remember how much fun we had on Gather? This is as much fun as that one, Better than RG and better than the Bubs.
@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
8 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate my sons are doing really really well, my first post will be all about them. going to get going on that post this evening.
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
10 Dec 15
I sure do live in the country. I am afraid that it is not as secluded as your daughter has it though. We are on ten acres but have 3 immediate neighbors. 
I would love to live in the real boon docks!
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@Shellyann36 (11383)
• United States
16 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate That is good that he was able to save the house! Nice to have good neighbors!
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
8 Dec 15
I am a country girl at heart, we do live in the burbs. It was quite rural when we bought out here but now there are many more homes but still very woodsy with several farms nearby, not us however.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
8 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate In the summer it is so quiet at night we can here the highway which is about 5 miles away.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
8 Dec 15
Sounds nice and quiet. I love the country, the only sound I hear at my daughter's house is the occasional car/truck and the birds and coyotes at night.
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@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
12 Dec 15
@PainsOnSlate We live kind of out in the country now. Our town is small also and a lot of rural areas.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
8 Dec 15
I loved my grandfather's farm and visited every chance I had. I'm a country girl at heart. My small town is quiet and delightful =, lots of space and trees.
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@DaddyEvil (174335)
• United States
10 Dec 15
Uhm... no, I am not a girl, nor do I live in the boonies, pains... although the city I live in might be described by some as the boonies! (That's how Pretty described it when she came home from college after her freshman year. She went to college up by New York City... )
I would describe this city as Podunk City... LOL!
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
10 Dec 15
I changed the wording so guys could answer too..I've lived in a few Podunk's, actually I live in one now but i call it a small town. Its touch for our kids to be in college in a city and come home to small town, no excitement there...
@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
9 Dec 15
I'll bet you do love it. That city life is exciting for a little while but country is forever.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
8 Dec 15
great photo.... it sounds idyllic.... I'm a country girl really.... although I live in a small fishing town... its not very big ... and we are surrounded by countryside, and mountains.... it's a nice mixture....
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
8 Dec 15
Sounds lovely. i would love to live there for a while.
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