Gopher Crotch, Nebraska. Population: This Guy

Write about your dream home.

My dream home, WordPress? It’s a Quonset hut in the middle of a full section wheat field in Banner County, Nebraska. 690 people spread across 745 square miles of the Great Plains. My nearest neighbor is at least a mile away and doesn’t own a lawn mower or dogs that bark 24 hours a day, and doesn’t have 6 “home schooled” crotch goblins that I find playing in the middle of the road in front of my house at least once a week with no adults in sight. I have those fancy book shelves with the rolling ladder, a commercial kitchen for canning the produce from my garden, and a heated concrete floor. I can roller skate around the place if I feel like it (and if I knew how to roller skate).

I can write in peace, take pictures of birds, speed goats, and old farmhouses, and never see another living soul unless a Costco sized box of stroopwafels shows up from California via UPS. Hell, I can walk to the mailbox wearing nothing but my Doc Martens if the weather is decent, because it’s not like one of my nosy troll neighbors is watching me from behind their cheap plastic window blinds every time I open the front door.

That’s about it. A big ass airplane hangar looking building in the middle of nowhere. With a giant catio attached to the side for the Furbeestes.

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