There are some new and interesting things to life here in Southern Illinois. Here's a few observations:
- It really is Southern! Today for lunch, I had country fried steak, fried okra and sweet tea!! (Don't worry, I only indulge in that once a month or so!)
- It's so Southern that I sometimes have a hard time understanding the accents!
- You have to use your high beams on your headlights at night! (I haven't lived anywhere that dark since going off to the big city for college!)
- Camoflague is in high season right now. I actually saw camo pjs for babies at a store the other day!
- Now, here's the kicker! This weekend and next are the only days you can deer hunt with a rifle (you can hunt all of fall with bows) SO this past Friday was called "Deer Day"!! Kids who miss school get an excused absence because not enough kids show up for school for the district to be able to count it as a day! People either have the day off or take the day off! I was in the hospital being monitored the other day, and the nurse in the next cubicle told the patient, "Well, it's good that tomorrow is deer day, so you won't have to go back to work until Monday!" WOW! That's how serious it is around here! I am just hoping that someone took several deer and will have too much to eat themselves- and think or our freezer!!
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