Rural Life

We've moved!  So we spent last weekend moving and for the first time in a long time I find myself in the country.  Here are my quick observations so far:

1. It's really really really dark at night.. and with boxes still all over the place at my house, leaving a light on is a necessity right now.
2. There doesn't seem to be any such thing as leash laws in the country- I'm guessing they're not needed... we on several occasions have had a little heard of neighborhood dogs running wild in our yard.  One dog is always the same... seems he belongs to everyone on the street.
3. It doesn't matter if the pizza is good - there's only one place to get it in a reasonable driving distance so it is what we will eat when take out is necessary.
4. Birds are really loud, as are wild turkeys and the farm dogs next door.  Haven't actually heard a peep from the horses across the street though.. they are very mannerly neighbors so far.
5. Waking up and having my coffee in the sunroom where I can watch and listen to the nature happening all around me is worth all of those other compromises.

Oh -- and people wave when you pass them on the street while driving, school children wave when you drive by their bus stop-- I'm surprised I haven't seen the outdoor cats in the neighborhood raise their paw at me when I go by.  I've got to get better about doing this (it seems people wave hello all the way up until the point where you get on the main highway-I've been studying this, can you tell?) or I will be known as the unfriendly new girl in town and be shunned from barbeques and pool parties and such.