[nagdu] Living in the country and NFB convention

[Debby Phillips]

Julie, I hope you get your dream, but just remember that that 
peace and quiet has a price.  Where we lived, if the phone went 
out, (which happened at least twice a summer) we had no cell 
service.  My husband is quite healthy now, but there have been 
times when his health was a bit precarious.  It was a very scary 
thought to me to have no phone, to have to walk half a mile to 
the road, and hope that if I waved somebody down it wouldn't be 
some person high on Meth.  I may sound paranoid to you all, but 
seriously you never know nowadays.  And it got pretty boring 
walking the same half-mile lane.  Then in the winter we'd have 
snow thigh high.  My brother-in-law said I'd make a great 
advertisement for being snow birds in Florida or southern Cal, 
which we eventually did.  Never again will I put myself in that 
position.  I'll visit the country for weekends, or even a week, 
but never again will I live in the country.  Yes, I enjoy the 
peace and quiet, the animals, the wonderful smells, but ow never 
again want to feel trapped or isolated.  (Our nearest neighbor 
was like four miles away).    Debby and Nova who says that 
wherever Mom is is okay with her.