Country directions - aren't they fascinating?  As a real estate agent specializing in horse property, they can be a real challenge sometimes, but they're always entertaining.

Nothing so boring as "Take a right on Maple Street.  Go left at the stop light at Elm, go three blocks, then take another left on Williams Drive, and it's the last house on the right."

The title of this blog was taken from actual directions given to a party held out in the country.  Thing was, they were good directions - that horse COULD be depended on to be standing in that corner of the field whenever anyone drove by.

One time I was giving directions to someone, and I noticed my young daughter cracking up.  Later, I asked her why.  Now, some background:  Schwertner is a tiny community just up the road from us.  By tiny, I mean that in the town, proper, there may be as many as 30 houses, but it's questionable - most of the residents of Schwerner live on farms and ranches nearby.  The directions I gave were, in part, "Head east on FM 487 (FM being Farm to Market).  At Schwertner, turn right."  Those were actually excellent directions, because there's only one turn in Schwertner off 487, and if you turn left, in about half a block you'll be in a cow pasture.

I quickly learned, after we moved here, when telling people where I live not to give them our address (which changed within a month of our moving here, after I'd one all the address changes for the move, when we were 911'd for the volunteer fire department).  Not to even, in some cases, give them our county road number.  If I did that, and they still looked confused, I'd say, "We live next door to the old Foster place," and light would dawn.  Eleven  years later, that's still the best directions to give.  When we moved here, Southwestern University owned the property.  The gentleman who leased the land to run cattle on had been leasing it from Southwestern for 35 years then.  There hadn't been any Fosters on it for at least that long.  But it's still, and likely will be forever, "the old Foster place".