So, I went to take out the trash yesterday and based on what I saw I had to ask the following:

Which is more redneck, letting your 3 year old run around outside in a t-shirt and their underpants? Or letting your two year old run around outside in a diaper and their t-shirt?

Not that I’ve ever been real hip to the idea of letting my kid run around outside pantsless in the first place, but it seems to be in especially poor taste when you let your 3 and a half year old run around outside pantsless… Maybe I’m just a snob that way…

Now, we don’t exactly live out in the back woods or anything like that… Yes, it is a bit rural here, and there’s at least one cattle ranch less than 3 miles from our house, but we’re also in a community that’s just on the outskirts of the downtown of a community of several thousand.

Which leads me to our next door neighbors…

Now don’t get me wrong, I happen to like our next door neighbors. They’re quite friendly people… even with their collection of animals…

Let’s see, there’s Rocky the Wonder Basset… Ok, I added the Wonder Basset part, but it just seems like a natural fit for him, I don’t know why but it does. Rocky is their overweight basset hound who is also extremely friendly. It’s good that he’s friendly, because it makes it really easy to catch him when he escapes every once in a while :)

Rocky’s not their only pet though…
The Chicken

That would be one of our neighbor’s two chickens… They don’t have a rooster though, the town doesn’t allow them…

And of course, there’s the teepee… No pictures because the marauding kiwi tree in our background is blocking the view, but they even have a genuine teepee in their back yard… Go figure…