Redneck

This is our version of you might be a redneck if....

(lol)

Explain Please 

They have toy rooms full of toys, but the cool place to play is the top of the hay feeder.

This is normal behavior. Our boys do the same thing. We have a neighbor that has an old boat in their yard, but the best part is its a sandbox full of sand and toys. I need to take a pic of this and send it to Jeff Foxworthy..... This of course is in addition to the 15 or so cars/ partial cars in their yard as well. I am sure there is better out there.

My kids swing on the gates. Sometimes for hours. Take them to the Disney World and they have more memorable times on the gates. It doesn't always take money to give a kid a fun time.

Jill, did you join them?

Hey I am 24 and if i could get away with swinging on the gates for hours I still would.  (clapping)

(clapping) (clapping)  Looks like fun to me!!    What is it.. the dirtier the kid, the more fun they had?      Our kids spend a lot of time ON things like that too.     

I remember my gate swinging days - that was fun!    Our kids were out swinging on the gates one day.  Hubby surprised me...  he usually makes them get off because he's the gate rehanger only this time, he was telling where & how to hang on to get the maximum swing.  I guess he remembered too. 

i always liked jumping on the row of round bales and jumping over the holes to get to the next one, good times...

I loved riding my mare down the corn rows, until my Dad caught me!

I also used to love to take a nap on rainy days on top of the feed sacks. You could smell the molasses and go to sleep hearing the rain on the tin roof....until my Dad caught me!

I think I invented 'caught in the act'.

Those rainy days in the barn is the reason I put a tin roof on my house. Didn't do much good in last summer's drought!

Malinda

I dont call them "redneck" moments per say. I call it good clean country living. I grew up like all of these comments and want my daughter to have some of the same. It is some great growing up.

As a kid my dad had a friend that had a construction company. And every summer he would bring a load of sand and dump it out back and we played in it till we had it spread out. I remember some of the best times were out in the hay barn building the coolest forts in the square bales. I wouldnt trade any of that for growing up in a big neighborhood with no where to explore and spend all day. Also when I was a kid we inflated a raft and traveled as far as we could up the creek like we were explorers. I am getting depressed now thinking about how much fun I had as a kid and how we all have to grow up and not do those kinds of things anymore.

I think it is great.  I'd rather see a kid on a hay bale than in front of the TV or video games.  My boys love to play hide and seek in our square bales.  They also like playing on top of our round bales and the dog joins in, along with a couple cats.  I have caught my husband and sons asleep on the feed sacks in the summer with the cattle fans blowing on them.  While we are clipping or in the barn for long periods my boys play bucket basketball.  My five year old also takes 4 or 5 buckets and sets them up like bowling pins and knocks them down with the basketball.  I guess that would qualify as redneck/country bowling.  My kids have their toys, but they have more fun with a big cardboard box.