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Posted by: thepinetree on 08/31/2010 03:29 PM Updated by: Kim_Hamilton on 09/02/2010 02:51 PM
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Welcome to the Country~by Charity Maness

So you’ve decided to move to the country where sometimes we need to be reminded that there are parts of the country that are slightly more odd than us. What follows are a few musing from my latest trip to Kentucky with Wyatt and mini Wyatt....With seemingly every visit to Kentucky within the past year my mere presence has brought on monumental flooding, destructive storms and tornados, the locals are beginning to think I might be kin to mother nature herself. So of course this visit, being no different, brought twister warnings within the first day of arrival. So, what to do while waiting for a possible twister? Soak in a friend’s pool of course. That would be a friend with a basement; friends with benefits takes on a whole new meaning round these parts. Pools and basements rank way up there in the benefit department. Just FYI, teeth are pretty low on that list......


Swimming Cow in Kentucky


Okay, so the county that I was visiting boasts among other things, the largest still ever confiscated within the state of Kentucky. So impressive, it was reassembled and sits today in a place of honor in the Kentucky State museum. With that said, this is a dry county aka prohibition county. No booze allowed…at all. Hmmmm..

Recently the folks of the town decided they were tired of driving over the county line to pick up a beer or two and started a petition to revoke the ‘dry county’ standing. It was the first time in the history of this county that the bootleggers and the preachers united for a single cause. The preachers wanted no booze, the bootleggers wanted to keep their livelihood, albeit illegal, but still a livelihood. The petition failed, and the bootleggers found a new audience…women. What was once a concoction so foul a mere sniff of it would burn the sensitive hairs from inside your nose now comes in a variety of flavors; watermelon, strawberry, lemonade, and apple butter cider. I think I will stick to bottled water for the remainder of my trip.

I did always find it strange that the stores in this area carry a large stock of quart mason jars…year round. Seriously, who cans in December?
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One last Kentucky country thought…a bit of my Wyatt’s insight here…
Happy cows come from California right? Wyatt might beg to differ. See this here state of Kentucky is the largest producer of fine bourbons…and their largest export is beef…just follow along I will get to the point in a minute. The main ingredients in bourbon are corn, rye, wheat, barley, and the highly coveted iron free limestone water found only in Kentucky. The ingredients, though essential, are also the residual by-product of the completed Bourbon, called silage. Now, guess what the distilleries do with the tons of silage aka bourbon by product? Why they feed it to their beef cattle. Now in my book, that would make for happy cows.

Until next time… welcome to the country. www.charitymaness.com




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