The South...Things to get used to!

10 Things We Had To Get Used To When We Moved To Our Home in the South!

10. All of us are called "baby", "sweetie", "honey", wherever we go - grocery stores, restaurants, banks.
9. None of the roads are cleared after snowfalls or ice - they just wait until the sun shines.
8. The southern accent still throws me - I am forced to listen carefully and often have to ask people to repeat things.
7. Lots of deer on our property - often...but will they stay around during hunting season?
6. The former owners left their 2 dogs with us because of their new living situation. Our "new" dogs are awesome and tend the property (50 acres) day and night and protect us from coyotes during the night and from squirrels, birds, and turkey vultures during the day. You heard right. The dogs are outside 24/7.
5. Everyone orders sweet tea or something called 50/50. This means half sweet tea and half unsweetened tea. But sometimes it means half unsweetened tea and half lemonade. Other folks order a coke and then they ask you what kind. Coke means soda, apparently. I stick with ordering water.
4. We have long conversations with our mail lady and with the UPS guys. They all know that we're the new folks from way up there in New York.
3. We live in a mostly dry county. We have to go to TN for beer and on Sundays, no alcohol is sold in TN at all.
2. We have a really good relationship with the former owners - they are amazingly gracious and kind.
1. We love catching catfish from our pond in the front...what??? Ingrid caught the first one on the Saturday after we moved in and Lars followed suit later that day with a 23" catfish.