'My Country Corner' is an Instagram account that shares memes about what it describes as farmhouse-style living. You know—cracked leather boots, ever-multiplying hay bales, arguing with your cattle herd, things like that. So, when we discovered its content, we thought you'd appreciate it—even if you grew up in the city. Admit it, you're interested. Part of you wants to get out, at least for a little while. So, continue scrolling to escape the urban hustle and bustle and enter... the rural hustle and bustle.
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What do you get if ypu play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, you get your dog back and you get your house back.
And gets hit by a train and spills all the beer that was in the truck.
Is it because he drives a Cybertruck and the frame snapped in a pothole?
Surely that'd be a Blues song? Then again, what do I know about US Country music? Not a lot...
Pure bro country. Or Bubba country? I listen to country, pop and a mix. Can't stand this type of country
Load More Replies...There's one about a wife driving her dead husband's truck around.. "I drive your truck, I roll all the windows down and I tear up all the back roads in this town" it's actually really sad. About driving his truck when she misses him.
In many places, country living has been enjoying a renewed appeal in recent years, and that might be a lingering after-effect of the pandemic. For example, a few years ago, about half of Americans (48%) told Gallup that if able to live anywhere they wished, they would choose a town (17%) or rural area (31%) rather than a city or suburb.
This is an increase from 2018, when 39% thought a town or rural area would be ideal.
The rise has been accompanied by a decline in those preferring to live in a suburb, down six percentage points to 25%. The percentage favoring cities has been steadier, with 27% at the time of the survey — close to the 29% in 2018 — saying they would prefer living in a big (11%) or small (16%) city.
Had a lady here move next door to the church. Complained about the singing and bells 🙄
Guy living next to our church used to purposely mow his lawn on Sunday mornings. Pastor had a long talk with him and he stopped.
Load More Replies...Something like this is in the deed when you buy a house in the country in France. They got so tired of city people like me complaining about the cockerel noise, and Dédé driving his tractor through the village at five o'clock that you have to sign that you have understood that the country is noisy and smelly.
American expat in Amsterdam started a petition because the churchbells of the famous Westerkerk bothered her.
Dutch expat in DesMoines Iowa started a petition because the tractors in the corn fields were too loud.
Load More Replies...20 years ago, our local developers started building housing tracts on property that was adjacent to dairy farms, poultry farms, and general agriculture. Home buyers were flooding our government offices with complaints about the smell, noise and flies. Like, didn't you see all those cows across the road from your development? That's not the County fair.
I lived in a rural community in the UK for ten years. When said community began expanding with new housing developments about 3 years ago the local social media pages lit up with Townies complaints about the smell of manure, 'noise' from birds, farmyards etc 🤷🏻♀️. Pathetic really 🙄
Probably have new townie neighbours who complain a lot.
Load More Replies...Shocking that farm animals behave like ....well ...animals ...on a farm!!
That must be one heckuva fine camera to get such clarity and detail. Well done.
"LET me tell you, 'bout the Birds and the Bees, And the flowers and the trees, And the Moon up above - And a thing ca-a-alled Love!'
Awww maybe she's their mother cause she found them lost and abandoned and now they travel around together like a beautiful little flock
These attitudes are similar to those recorded in October 2001, the only other time Gallup has asked Americans this question.
That reading, like the recent one but unlike the 2018 one, was taken during a time of great national upheaval — shortly after 9/11, when the public was still on edge about the potential for more terrorism occurring in densely populated areas.
Overall, slim majorities of Americans in cities and suburbs aspire to live elsewhere, whereas three in four town/rural residents are content where they are.
When I lived in a suburban house the squirrels got impatient and sat on the kitchen windowsill.
The sparrows in my parents' village do the same. My father feeds them all along winter and spring, when they are feeding their babies, so they gather in the kitchen windowsill and the bushes around to demand their food whenever the feeder is empty.
Load More Replies...This why the squirrels have a corncob feeder next to birdfeeders.
We also have a corncob feeder, but those wee, greedy bastards strip the corn in record time, then bury bits everywhere. I end up pulling baby corn stalks from the lawn all summer. 😂
Load More Replies...I think there was one where the Coyote catches the Road Runner but doesn't know what to do next!
Load More Replies...I wonder if anyone was underneath or in front of it when it came to a rest.
I remember when I was a child, our 2 very large cats herded a goat into a corner... the poor goat looked very confused.
Animals are just precious precious precious finally something on here giving warm and fuzzies again
Would more roots develop on the underside through prolonged contact with the soil, I wonder?
Load More Replies...🎵I get knocked down but I get up again.You're never gonna keep me down🎵
I had a tree like this. Not to this extent but enough to give shade.
Trees like this are all over Guam. Where there's a will, there's a way.
For instance, just under half of those who live in a city (47%) would prefer staying there, while 30% would opt for a town or rural area and 22% a suburb. Similarly, 48% of current suburban residents favor suburban living, while 30% would rather go to a town/rural area and 22% a city.
But the 2001 results found residents of each type of community more content where they were than is seen today. The slight majority of city residents in 2001 (53%) said they would prefer living in a city, and 67% of suburban residents preferred to remain there. However, 86% of town/rural residents favored living in those areas.
Cute picture, but…looking at the stall-mucking boots you’re wearing, it wasn’t just “someone’s” cow who walked over at random.
I can’t even count the times that has happened to me …*massive eyeroll*…
How do we know the ducks had to pay for these upgrades? They were also given a bill. (Rim shot.)
God: "And your sound shall be QUACK" Duck: "Quack Quack! Like that? That sounds pretty unique. Every time someone hears it they will think of me and my brothers!" God: Yes, for now. In a few thousand years millions of Youtubers will use the sound of your quack every time they say a swear word and then people will think of the most vulgar words when they hear Quack Quack." Duck: ... /j
There was a whole quacking issue brought up on donut operator's channel. He covers body cam videos, with quacks in place of gunshots. Someone's wife raised the issue of confusion, so the bad guys got different quacks than law enforcement😂
Load More Replies...There are no loons near me, but you've inspired me to search YouTube to hear them😊
Load More Replies...🤣 I really cracked up when I first saw this! I see that its lid is tied up with a rope. I imagine that at night or whenever, they can lower the lid and keep the hens in and the predators out.
My boids don't like leaving their coop when there's snow on the ground. They look at me as if it's my fault
Load More Replies...Aww that's sad. He will never get it home. It's not even real. Poor squirrelly now i feel sad
Here in Raleigh, we drop a big acorn on New Year's Eve because we're the City of Oaks. I always wondered what they did with the acorn the rest of the year. It's nice to know the squirrels can use it.
A recent analysis of Census data by Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia, discovered that 63% of rural counties or counties in small metros experienced increases in their populations of 25- to 44-year-olds between 2020 and 2023, compared to 27% between 2010 and 2013.
Northern Georgia, the Mountain West, and New England were rural regions with particularly strong population growth among young Americans.
Photoshop. The cat has been added afterwards. You can see it pretty obviously all around it (especially left ear and right flank).
Load More Replies...My dog gives me this look when he is trying to sleep and his human sister wants to play with him
Load More Replies...Done both... Not because I'm rich btw! One of my weirder temporary jobs was as a 'Mystery Shopper'. I stayed overnight in a luxery hotel once. It was nice, good food service etc! However, Bivouacking? Under the right weather conditions obviously! Falling asleep under a million stars? Amazing! 💜💜💜... Apart from waking up to one of the local sheep next to you nibbling your sleeping bag!!! 😄
My husband used to do a lot of wild-camping and his friend had cooked a fairly strong chili for their dinner on the camping stove. They left the washing up outside and were woken up by a sheep helping themselves. Not terribly sure how the sheep would be feeling after that!
Load More Replies...A great compromise is a luxury lodge camp in Africa. They are 5 star resorts where the fully appointed bush cabins are open to the front. Best wake up call I ever had was an elaphant sticking his head in and trumpeting at us.
You can't beat those chocolates they put on your pillow at the 5-star. The tent one is a pretty picture to look at.
I'll take the 5 star hotel, this 63 yo chick has never been camping on don't plan on it unless it's an emergency. We have an emergency kit including a large tent so we can take the dogs and space to hold all our stuff.
You should try it. Personally, this 62 year old chick will camp over hotel any chance I get. Recently, had to attend our of town funeral, and stayed overnight and all I could think was "is there a way to camp instead of hotel room?".
Load More Replies...A full-grown female fallow deer doesn't get a lot bigger than that. Up to a meter or so, so they can still be friends.
Load More Replies..."What do you think? Do you think a princess and a guy like me.." (Hans Solo)
Economist Jed Kolko said that, with the proliferation of remote work, Americans moved out of bigger urban areas into nearby suburbs or smaller towns, but added that headwinds in some occupations might slow down the influx of newcomers.
"If unemployment rises, particularly in the kinds of occupations where remote work is more common, employers might be more able to insist on workers spending more days in the office," Kolko explained. "Even if that doesn't cause people to reverse the moves that they made during or after the pandemic, it could still slow down that trend in the future."
My Auntie had a lovely horse that I would groom, but you had to be careful when you did her rear end, as it was her sweet spot, and she would suddenly literally go weak at the knees and lean on you. Not easy to hold up! You had to step away quickly so she woke up and steadied herself!
Used to know a horse who began to limp. Got caught when we noticed that it's the leg, best visible to people coming to fetch him.
It's not real, see Snopes.com. But horses do come with some strange markings.
The way my mouth opened when I understood this
Load More Replies...It's a good thing that's a calm horse. Some of them would kill themselves panicking in that situation. Their natural instinct is to run away. When my horse got caught in a fence that she accidentally rolled under we had to sedate her to get her out because she freaked.
It is a painted horse. I have three of them and am not surprised. PS: As to the "how": Most likely they were playing or having a tiff, so that fellow there chose a poor moment to buck.
Load More Replies...Cut the top and middle bars further along away from the horse and may have to do the same for the bottom bar as well if it finds itself confused in what to do next. Poor thing.
Load More Replies...Horses are cheap. It's caring for them properly that costs. That's why so many get abandoned.
The initial cost is less for any animal than the upkeep. People who buy animals without knowing this shouldn't be buying animals.
Load More Replies...Meanwhile, in areas that have seen a rush of new residents, Kolko said it's crucial for housing to keep up with demand. If it doesn't, affordability challenges from big cities could spread, likely reflecting in these memes too.
Yeah, notsomuch in a Minnesota winter…..or spring or fall for that matter…
I have a retractable clothes line. I use it all the time, especially for sheets.
...without using any chemical s**t on them. Just the air and the sun. And basic soap (Marseille). The best smell on Earth.
Load More Replies...Had clothes line growing up. Have had my wonderful electric dryers for 43 years and never want a line again, everything is so rough especially towels even with fabric softener.
Can sometimes be because of the fabric softener... though you have a point. I have found that shoving a towel in a dryer for about 10-20 minutes is usually enough to soften it, you can still line-dry it and it retains that softness. Saving money overall. I do that with anything I want softer. In the summer anyway, in the winter I have a pod dryer that also heats a room!!
Load More Replies...With us, the posts were original. It was the lines that had to be replaced occasionally.
Load More Replies...Go through the Freedom Guantlet to get to the Council Of Murder.
Yeah but they don't give lectures or disapproving stares at the dinner table....
The farts are the problem. Cattle farms are far and away the largest source of methane, a known greenhouse gas far more problematic than CO2. The solution, it turns out, is to add a certain type of seaweed to the cows' diet, it reduces emissions by a significant amount (not quoting a number because I don't remember off the top of my head).
Yeah, but the reason why there are so many of them (and usually in a concentrated area) is the volume of humans on the planet wanting their milk and body. Otherwise, they'd probably be fairly well controlled by whatever natural predator likes rare beef (outside of humans!).
Load More Replies...Veganism is inventing your own problems and a sign of too much privilege. In many areas of the world people can't afford to waste any part of an animal, not to mention not eating animal products at all.
While in other parts of the world millions of people are vegan, such as India, where 9% of the population doesn't consume animal products. That's roughly 121,500,000 people. Both the people you mentioned (I'm assuming the Inuit) and the people I mentioned (Indians) help the environment by largely consuming locally available seasonal produce, whether that's a seal or a banana.
Load More Replies...More loyal to his truck than his wife and kids, he did what he did and that's all he did, time to take her for another spin.
Load More Replies...It is. It's funny how you can get so attached to vehicles. I'm not letting my little roadster go until I can't get in and out of it anymore (eek, that's right now - I'm stuck in bed as my back's gone wrong!).
Load More Replies...They have such skinny ankles!!! One of my dogs would leap ridiculously high across and through things and I always marvelled that her seriously tiny ankles didn't snap!
Load More Replies...What are you staring at, I know I'm plump stop shaming me, you'll trigger more eating.
We have 8 days to "live it up now while you can" because we know who is next and the resulting dystopian nightmare. .
Load More Replies...Apparently they have to remind people what farms are for. Recently I read about a 20-something woman who asked why we need farms. She thinks farmers should just go to the grocery store. 🙄 Even just remembering this makes my brain hurt. Sheesh.
I saw that too. Too much disconnect from the realities of life.
Load More Replies...Everytime I hear that kids don't know were food comes from I think it is a joke. After the 100th time I am worried. If the kids don't understand I am guessing the parents don't either? I guess it is all magic like when we put stuff in the garbage and it goes to "away". I hope at some point we learn to educate everyone instead of keeping them in the dark.
Anyone who's ever owned a wheelbarrow knows about the ergonomic perfection of a wheelbarrow.
All the wheelbarrows I've owned have had horse poop in them. I ain't sitting in that! ;)
a cheap wheelbarrow is still cheaper than a lot of the patio furniture being sold!
Some do somehow miss the laws about firing near a residential area
Load More Replies...the horse knows the guy is lying about her being the only one.
Load More Replies...I was once staying on a farm in the middle of Texas. We went on a sunset walk in the pasture behind the property, and a whole herd of cows started chasing us! But my old dog, whom we called "protector dog", ran out to nip at the cows' ankles. She died years ago, but I'll never forget her sweet little face.
This signs on a shed outback in my yard. It's old but you can still tell what it says, I always wanted one 😊
Owned a few restaurants so my boys were used to eating out.When chicken fingers first offered on menu my two boy's are "yuck!! who eats chickens fingers!"
Might fine looking rooster there. So proud looking. My dad would have probably like this picture.
They're waiting for the light to change, so they can cross the road.
Geese don't take any prisoners. They just hate you, or anything close to them.
Load More Replies...Chased by a rooster. Bit by a rabbit. Scratched by a cat. Washed the dog after he got skunked. Twice.
I was ticking off the boxes until you got to the skunked dog. Ours never did that, but he did roll in the rotting carcass of some road-killed animal, away from home, a 45 minute ride away from home.
Load More Replies...Rhode Island Red. With spurs. Meanest bastards you'll ever encounter.
Evil rooster from h.ell refused to let me or my brother even sit on the step up to the front yard, let alone go up there.
For me it was a white tail deer, hand feeding and ran out of food....
Jersey Giant rooster when my sister and I were little. He was as big as me and taller than her
That's a lot of deer in 1 area. The most I've ever seen in my yard years ago was 8.
I took my family here during the New Year Break. As much as we love going to see the deer and the park and shrines, I'm not sure we'll go back because it has become too crowded with tourists.
This is kind of sad actually. They belong in the forest, not on concrete/asphalt.
I had a neighbor who rode his saddled bull. The bull was quite mellow and when I drove up the driveway, used to run to the fence to be fed. I always had some sort of leftover veggies or potatoes to give him.
I have a photo of one of my relatives (I think my great grandfather) riding a cow around the paddock
Anyone else seeing a weird nightmare looking creature with an antler on the saddle?
One of my nephews and his wife have a few farm animals. He sent me a snapchat picture of baby chicks they had bought. I responded "OOOOHH - chicken nuggets!" He said NOOOOOO!
Is there a problem here, other than I'm not getting one when they're done?
SAME!! Though less so the frilly dress. I always found it so funny that the cows would make such a fuss when they got out! Loud mooing is a bit of a give-away!
Load More Replies...I love both metal and country. And though I wear them for comfort, I wear my blunt toed cowboy boots with my band shirts and battle jacket. Lemmy wore cowboy boots too.
Not necessarily. People are in the habit of feeding them, even though it's against the law. Alligators like routine. Break that routine, and you'll have several pounds of trouble in your hands, if you have yours left.
Load More Replies...That doggy door looks big enough to let the skunk ape get in the house
Riding in the back of the truck is still legal in about half of US states.
I used one cup to make a face mask at the start of the Pandemic because there were no proper face masks to be had. People at the grocery store loved it and some quickly left to make one of their own because it felt safer than a bandana or scarf.
The horse does have some acting talent, so no.
Load More Replies...Too soon indeed - the city boys don't get their big bonfires lit until July - Battle of the Boyne and all that (don't blame me, I wasn't there). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crg4npnwee7o. 😉
Load More Replies...Read the package insert with any medication and swear that death would not be kinder.
Load More Replies...What does Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber have to do with country music?
I had a piano trio backing up a female singer for a jazz lounge act. One day the police showed up at our rehearsal. The neighbor lady with the four bratty kids was totally stressed out. She called the cops not because we were loud, but because she did not like the tune we were practicing.
They better have a good truck. Or the sense to just go around.
Load More Replies...I have a genuine question. I see a muddy road. Where is the excitement?
I credit Photoshop for a few of these posts, but they’re still pretty good..
Owning lifestock means, they plan your day. Feeding, grooming, mucking, fencing and the not-so-occasional boo-boo because the horses miss their vet. Enough hustle and bustle for me
Load More Replies...I credit Photoshop for a few of these posts, but they’re still pretty good..
Owning lifestock means, they plan your day. Feeding, grooming, mucking, fencing and the not-so-occasional boo-boo because the horses miss their vet. Enough hustle and bustle for me
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