It’s the country that I live in and I really l0ve it. Living in the country is a treat and it’s something that I’ve done for quite a few years now, since I moved out here. I grew up in the city but you wouldn’t get me back there again, never.
There’s just so much to life in the country that you just can’t find living in the city. One example for you. I love cycling and do it heaps out here in the country. It helps keep me fit and that’s important and I definitely need to keep fit. And it gets me into some beautiful outdoors locations, places that it’s just a privelege to visit.
Around me there’s so much to cycle past and see. Fields with cows, sheep and goats. Horses too, though I don’t like horses a whole lot. But I love cows and sheep. I have my own cows, each with its own calf, and I love them dearly. They’re my pets, not farm animals.
There’s so many advantages to living out here and cows and calves at my place is just one of them. It’s nature and I love nature.
Its summer right now and its very hot. We’ve had some really hot days lately. Now of course if I lived in the city it would still be as hot. But here I see the cycle of the seasons so well. I feel more at one with the seasons and with nature now. I see the grass die when summer comes, I see the grass regrow and get green again for winter. It see snow, I see drought, I see rain, I see life.
All the leaves turn such great colors, and they fall off and they look so good all on the ground around the base of the tree, and the trees drop seeds and new baby trees start to grow underneath them. I get to see the old and the young, all cycling, all turning over as the creator intended.
All of these things cycle, just like I cycle. They go round and round and I really see what the seasons are.
If I lived in the city I mightn’t even have a garden at all. I mightn’t have a tree at all. I might have a lot of concrete, I might have a balcony on my house and a BBQ, but I mightn’t have a tree or a blade of grass or a shrub.
Apart from the temperature I mightn’t even know what season it is, and that would be terrible.
The city is so sterile. I spent a lot of years there so I know what its like. Now of course that’s just a personal view, but that’s how I feel about it. As it’s my website say what I feel.
Even the rest of my own family live there. My brother loves it and he’s single so I suppose he needs more social life than me, and there’s probably lots more social life in the city. But I don’t like it, so that’s that. (more…)