March 28, 2007
So, it’s always funny to me when people think of Boise Idaho as a minuscule hillbilly town. It never fails, when I meet someone new during our travels or whatnot and they learn that I live in Boise Idaho, they always reply with a real annoying, dumbfounded exclamation of “BOYZEE!”
They then go “Potatoes, right? Ya’ll do potatoes there?”
Why, yes sir we do.
They always laugh a bit to themselves and I wonder what the F is so funny.
Even my brother and sister in law are guilty of it. They couldn’t figure it out for the life of them why we were so happy living in Boise. I mean, how can you be happy without running water and a public transit system and McDonald’s. WHO LIVES THAT WAY!
We have those things, obviously. Who do you think I am? Pioneer Woman?
So, anyway, we get that ignorant crap all the time. Did you go to school in a one room schoolhouse? Do you mine for gold? Is your Daddy also your Brother?
And I always laugh about it because I know that our city kicks their city’s buttocks. And I know that we have all the things that you would expect of a state’s capital and we do pretty darn well for ourselves, thank you very much. And we are not hiking to school uphill both ways and catching dinner with our hands in the Boise River either.
So, I laugh about the preconceived ideas about us being so backwoods but then today we discovered this behind our garage:
That’s right folks. There are about 25 deer living behind our house, probably 40-50 feet away. We live on the outskirts of our new happy happy subdivision and so we get the benefits of have open space as our back neighbor. AREN’T YOU SO JEALOUS RIGHT NOW! admit it!
I am like snow white! I live among the wild animals!
I actually saw them for the first time last night as I was coming home from my angry drive-by-myself stew after fighting with my husband over meaningless stupidness. I pulled up and saw all these white deer butts in the dark of the night! I walked inside the house after my angry drive of solitude and was all “I know we should talk about how sorry we are and make up right now but there are like TWENTY FIVE DEER BY OUR GARAGE!” and we both ran outside like 8 year olds and watched them. Just like that, our fight was over. The DEER healed our fight. Mother Nature healed our fight.
This was the picture I tried to take last night with my crappy little camera that I hate:
So, needless to say I was stoked when they came back today! Like they knew that I wanted a picture of them for my blog.
So, ya, I guess Boise is a little country. Afterall, we have deer that migrate to our garage. But I’ve decided to be cool with that. I should be proud of being a little country.
Posted by Jamie @ 1:13 am • Boise in the Hood
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March 28th, 2007 at 11:30 am, Ashley Says:
Jamie, I saw your comment on BooMama’s site and I left this in response (copying it here in case you don’t see it on BooMama’s site!):
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March 29th, 2007 at 11:48 am, Rae Says:
This is the magic of Boise! You can have all the “city” perks with deer in your backyard! Yay Boise!
March 29th, 2007 at 12:21 pm, Laura Says:
I am moving to Fort Wayne Indiana and everytime I tell someone they get this look like I am crazy to be happy about it. I think they think we are going to be living like you say without water and McDonald when in fact I think Fort Wayne is going to be my favorite place to live. It is perfect for us and that is all that matters. Oh and I saw ashley’s comment that you were thinking of switching to wordpress. I was getting spam and I just turned on the word verification thing to yes in the blogger and I haven’t had any spam since. You could try that if you don’t really want to switch.
March 31st, 2007 at 7:24 am, journeywoman Says:
i love deer.
Great pics.
And I have to admit, the part of me that loves venison looked at the picture and thought–WOW, venison delivery in Boise, Idaho.
I also go for drives where I stew at my husband.
And people have preconcived notions when I tell them I’m from NYC. “But…but…you’re so nice!”
March 31st, 2007 at 4:23 pm, Mom2One Says:
Having that many deer in my yard would just ROCK.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:09 pm, **AUDrey** Says:
I like deer… to EAT!!
muh ha ha ha HAH AHA
I mock your blog about Boise and Deer