Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Bummer in the Boonies

This morning I woke up to my usual routine of making  a list of all I need to remember to accomplish today. I am a teacher and if I don't follow this routine I get caught up in all the action of the 6th grade and forget to do many things. I added buying Halloween treats to my list this morning and it hit me: In the boonies there will be no trick-or-treaters. How sad is that? In my neighborhood right now I have a ton of trick-or-treaters knocking on my door for their annual batch of sweets and treats. In the boonies my land is too far out and other houses too spread out to have little super heros, Dora's, Princesses, and ghosts running up the drive in excitement of just what sugar-laden surprise might await them.

This is the first time I have considered some of the sad parts are living in the boonies. I will miss decorated houses for the holidays. I am sure folks out in the boonies decorate, but our houses are too far apart and on the streets that surround my property there are only 3 other houses, each about a quarter mile apart. The block parties to popular here in the suburbs will be no more. This is the bittersweet part of living in the middle of nowhere.

I do have some tiny LED Christmas lights that are battery operated to use in decorating my tiny house around Yule and I am sure I will find small trinkets to continue to decorate for the holidays, but being as isolated as I am these will most likely only be seen by me. I guess I will just have to shift to putting together a special treats package for my granddaughter and getting it to her via the mail a few days before major holidays. Thank goodness for Skype.


Do you think you would miss these suburban and urban traditions? Would you continue to decorate your home for different holidays if you were most likely the only one to see the decorations?
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  1. James, Davis, and Associates TestOctober 22, 2013 at 6:44 AM

    I don't celebrate these holidays, but I enjoy living in an area where I can see what beautiful things my neighbors and those in surrounding communities do to decorate their homes.

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    1. Educ8rOctober 22, 2013 at 4:55 PM

      I am with you Janeane. I love to drive around and look at all the holiday lights, but I don't really do my house up as grandiose as some, but just hang a few lights across the front. I am in awe of those folks that hang all those lights and synchronize them to music, but to pull a quote from some lady on the news not too long ago, "Ain't no one got time for that."

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  2. Sophie BownsOctober 22, 2013 at 6:56 AM

    I actually cannot believe that it's almost Halloween already! WHERE has this year gone!

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  3. Steph @ From the Burbs to the BooniesOctober 23, 2013 at 6:42 AM

    I'm on the edge of the boonies :) Our house is on the far end of a dirt road in a town of under 1000 so they don't always make it as far as our house but we do get some trick or treats, or rather hubby does. I'm lucky because I get to take kiddo out trick or treating all over town and to a neighboring town's spook walk. You know, there is very little I miss about urban life :)

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    1. Educ8rOctober 27, 2013 at 6:38 PM

      I think there will be very little that I will miss about urban life as well. I am good with going in to "town" for Halloween activities and Holiday Lights.

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