Visitors From The City

[so lucky]

The stories related in this thread made me laugh a little, and smile a lot.

I'm not certain, but it seems, So Lucky, as though you find it a little bit fun making your sister squirm?
But that's what siblings are for, right?

You bet!

 

[Smart Red]

When I taught fourth grade our social studies program spent half the year learning about our state - Wisconsin. I loved the unit on dairy. We made ice cream, yogurt, and cheese. Also made Maple sugar candy during February's Sugaring time.

I always made it a practice to bring in foods that were not 'usual' for our area. So we ate snails, tofu, ugli fruit, persimmons, etc. Even used my bread maker in class to make designer breads.

At least a few hundred American children were not typically 'ignorant'. It is not the child's fault if their adults don't introduce them to the real world.

Teaching is such fun that learning has to be as well.

 

[seedcorn]

Interesting but to start out telling us about chicken house u designed with no pix. That is just wrong

 

[so lucky]

Sorry seedcorn, but my computer has been very stubborn about letting me send pics to anywhere. You will just have to come for a visit and see the chicken house in person!

 

[OldGuy43]

My favorite has always been the young lady in her early to mid 20's who believed that beef came from factories. "No, they can't be killing those nice cows with their soft, brown eyes."

 

[Smiles Jr.]

When I was growing up on a small farm just south of Cape Girardeau, MO in the late '40s and early '50s my parents would take my sister and me to St. Louis twice a year. Once for my uncle's birthday and once to see the Christmas displays. We were very much like the city kids coming to the country. We always wondered why the streets were sooooo wide. We couldn't figure out why they had curbs and sidewalks all over the place. We were afraid of street peddlers and black people. (but on the farm we were never afraid of hobos off the railroads - go figure) And we never could figure out why they had more than one store. They even had electric cattle cars and people rode inside them instead of cows and pigs. So I guess it works both ways. It's not always stupidity, mostly just ignorance.

 

[Stubbornhillfarm]

My very beautiful, intelligent, BMW driving, Government working, city slicker sister, came to the farmers market that the farmer and I run. During a discussion, she was enlightened to the fact, that a cow must become pregnant in order to produce milk. She had no idea! Basically, she had never thought about it. It is amazing what people just don't even think about and the surprise they have when we share country living (even if your in the city) with them!

Good for you for grossing out your sister! That's what siblings are for!

 

[so lucky]

Smiles, You must be from that area of Missouri that changes from hilly to flat and sandy. Crowley's Ridge. It's where the South begins, in my opinion, and very interesting in geologic terms. I'm just north west of Cape.

 

[thistlebloom]

Smiles, You must be from that area of Missouri that changes from hilly to flat and sandy. Crowley's Ridge. It's where the South begins, in my opinion, and very interesting in geologic terms. I'm just north west of Cape.

Anywhere near Perryville by chance? My BIL's family are there.

 

[so lucky]

I used to work in Perryville. Nice little town, busy old-town area. I don't remember any empty buildings in the old business area, unlike most small towns. It was a 30 minute drive to work, through the back roads.