Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Do you remember those “You might be a redneck” jokes made popular by Jeff Foxworthy? He had a bunch of them. Even had books of them.
Well, lately, I’ve been thinking about things that might mean you’re a country girl. So here goes.
If you’ve ever chased a butter-colored butterfly through a field of clover and it always zigged when you zagged, then you might be a country girl.
If you’ve ever had to brush snow off a pile of wood to fill up the woodbox inside the house, then you might be a country girl.
If you’ve ever had blisters on your thumbs from using a hoe…
If you’ve ever been stung on your toe by a bee while running through the yard…
If you’ve stepped outside late at night and seen about a million stars…
If you’ve hunted a new litter of kittens in a hayloft…
If you’ve gone swimming in a pond…
If you’ve brushed the dirt off a tomato or a cucumber and eaten it while you’re still in the garden…
If you’ve tried to de-skunk your best furry buddy…
If you’ve ever picked up sacks of walnuts to make some spending money…
If you know what nettle is and never want to touch it again…
If you’ve seen a newborn calf or bottlefed a lamb…
If you’ve had to set pans under the leaks in the roof of an old house…
If you’ve ever gone to a little country church’s dinner on the grounds and eaten home-fried chicken…
If you’ve ever had to pluck that chicken before it was fried…
If you’ve heard a whippoorwill through your open window before you went to sleep at night…
If you’ve ever caught a jar full of lightning bugs…
If you’ve seen more butterflies than you can count on your fingers and toes when you take a walk in the hay field…
If you’ve done any of these and more, you just might be a country girl!
So what would you add to the list?