Where is home?

I am beginning to call Ashburnham home. It's weird, but it's getting there.

I'm try to describe what it's like here, as it's very different from Fairfield County.

Status Symbols in Ashburnham are Ford F-150 Super Duty...Fairfield County are Mercedes anything.

Things are slower and people are nicer in Ashburnham which I like. Fairfield County has the feel of a bustling place of commerce and high society. Ashburnham has more of a country feel with rednecks or a place for artists and writers. Emerson wrote of an area about 20 miles away from Ashburnham, Mount Monadnock.

Ashburnham has some New England charm, especially the part where we are. It's in the woods, but there is a Country Store out on the State Route about a mile and a half from our house. You can get coffee, tee, ice cream etc. and has all of the little knick knacks you expect at a country store.

Further down the road in Ashby there is a small market with all the essentials and penny candy. Towards the New Hampshire State line there is Mount Watatic, which is a small mountain with views of Boston and Mount Monadnock. It's an easy hike that I often do. A couple of times I've run to the state line from my house, and ran from my house to Mount Watatic and up it and back.

There are also rednecks around. Seriously, not joking. I don't mean to make fun of them at all, I just don't know how else to describe them. There are a few homes around with junk and old cars in the front yards. Metal just rusting away. One house unfortunetly looks like a junk yard. Old boats, and cars and metal litters their back yard.

Recently when I went biking I passed by some redneck women tanning in 65 degree weather. They were in bathing suits, and I must say they were NOT going to be considered for a calendar. (They made me bike even faster...to get away)

Then there is another area where I literally see guys drinking beer and listening to country music everyday. It's like a real life episode of "King of the Hill."

Another neighbor made me think that they had a new special dog breed. It had so much long hair. As I kept going on my bike I noticed that it was a goat in his driveway.

There are some interesting sites, but it's so beautiful where I am right now. It's refreshing and far away from traffic. Everyone is nice, relaxed and patient. That is a nice change of pace. There is a farm at each end of the street that we live off of. One of those has horses, cows and also has a produce stand in the summer. Neither farm is big, but both are nice size.