105 Ways You Can Tell that You're from Geauga County

If you’ve been here long enough, then you know what it takes to call Geauga County home. A little while back we asked all of you on Facebook to tell us how you know you’re from Geauga County. Here are 105 ways that you can tell you are a genuine Geauga County resident!

There are pancakes everywhere! People wave and say “hi” even when you don’t know who they are!! ~ Amanda McGowan
The Middlefield Cheese Factory did when I was growing up, that’s why there was the Swiss Cheese Festival over Father’s Day weekend. ~ Annette Gibbs-holmes
You can handle all the snow, looking forward to the maple products and the Middlefield swiss cheese. ~ Annette Gibbs-holmes
You have frostbite all over your body from late October until sometime in April. ~ Arlo Jemison
You see the Beauty all around in the faces of the children. ~ Barbara Jane Price-Stephens
Know how to use your air conditioner and furnace in the same day. ~ Beth Brown
Every one enters your house through the garage! ~ Betty Foye Mileti
You move out of town but keep one button on your radio set at 1100am so you can catch the Indians after dark. ~ Bill Byler
If the snow is deeper and the maple syrup is sweeeet! ~ Brad Pestyk
Your family can’t wait for The Great Geauga County Fair!! ~ Brenda McGee
You’ve eaten Swiss Cheese on a stick. Can name 6 different Draft horse breeds. ~ Carol Hill Griggs
You can’t wait for the pancake breakfasts in March! ~ Christina Sprague
You bleed maple syrup. ~ Cindy Easthom
You experience all 4 seasons in the same day. ~ Cindy Linn
And you grew up reading the Geauga Times Leader. ~ Cindy Venable
You’ve ever boiled hotdogs in maple syrup at a sugar bush. ~ Cindy Venable
You miss the humid summer nights. ~ CJ Szuter
If You Know about Snow and Look Forward to Spring Flowers. ~ Coupon Ken
Most of the traffic on your road is Amish buggies, and hay wagons pulled by Belgians! ~ Cynthia L Stutzman
You move to Lake County for 25 years and consider it PURGATORY until you can get back home where you belong! ~ Dale Hall
You know what the heck CORN HOLE is. ~ Dana Davey
You have two seasons- gun season and bow season. ~ Dave Peterson
If you own snowshoes! ~ David Johnson
You know a Herfeord from a Guernsey. ~ Deb White Bartsche
You know that melon heads are from Lake County. ~ Deb White Bartsche
You are a REAL maple syrup snob! ~ Debbie Brooks
If you have muddy boots and a rusty pickup truck with stacks with a rebel flag sticker on the back window. ~ Don Kepich
When you move to another state and still try to keep up with everything. ~ Erma Marsh
You have maple syrup in your veins. ~ Fran Tretera
It’s March 21 and you’re getting 15 inches of snow. ~ Geri Miller Grimes
If you just have to have a maple stir. ~ Glee Morse Slivka
Lake effect snow warnings ALWAYS apply to you. ~ Glenn Petranek
Your neighbor is that house a mile up the road. ~ Heidi Bacon
When a citizen thanks you and you respond ” You bet”. ~ Jamie Romph
You are on the lookout for buggies at all times while driving. ~ Jane Rua
You’ve ever eaten ham, ham, ham at the firehouse. ~ Jason Maynard
You know what “Ham,Ham ,Ham” means. ~ Jeff Keller
You remember removing your studded snow tires in May! ~ Jeffrey Brinkerhoff
Maple sugar and apple butter festivals! ~ Jennifer Sinden Alcorn
Sweaters are the norm on Memorial day! ~ Jennifer Sinden Alcorn
Maple flows through your veins. ~ Jer Emch
You know road apples aren’t edible fruit. ~ Jeremy Wohlken
You know you’re from Geauga County if the justice system displays weakness by giving a murderous delinquent a stage to spew vile at his innocent victims. ~ Jerome Blaha
It’s snowing. ~ John Svoboda
It snows on the first day of spring. ~ Joni Wilson-Crawford
Your carhart is your varsity jacket. ~ Joseph Brendy
Watching a horse poop in front of a buggy is a monthly event. ~ Karen Lynagh
If you expect snow during May! and realize that March 20 is just another day and has no relevance to weather. ~ Karen Munro
You’re up to your eyebrows in snow! ~ Kay Martini
You don’t know what to wear because the weather changes ever 10 minutes. ~ Kelly J. Hawley
You know what a Maple Stir is… ~ Laura Diemer
You live for maple stirs! ~ Laurie Getchell Thompson
If you haven’t put your boots away or taken your driveway markers out! ~ Linda Ebbert Mitchell
When you call the Geauga County Fair…THE GREAT GEAUGA COUNTY FAIR. LOL!!! ~ Linda J. Sabovik
If you like maple syrup, horses, and festivals!!!! ~ Linda Louski
If you love Chardon!!!! ~ Linda Martin
You know what time all the state parks close and which parks allow camp fires. And how to avoid being caught when in violation of the above. ~ Linda White
Butternut and Sherman roads are your favorite roller coasters. ~ Lindsey Davis
You fly to Chardon mainly to go to the Maple Festival!!! We froze our butts off too by the way!!! My blood has thinned out considerably!!! Lol ~ Liz Carrell Carroll
You have Richards Maple Syrup shipped to you in Texas because you can’t stand any other kind and your 24 year old daughter will only use Richards on her waffles since that’s what she was raised on!!! ~ Liz Carrell Carroll
Your blood is so thick you are still wearing shorts in the winter. Or your fat like me lol. ~ Loren Ludlow
You know you are from the healthest county in Ohio. ~ Mark Basinger
You keep a snow brush in your car year round. ~ Marsha Boyce Cable
You love the festivals for maple syrup, apples and for the beauty of Geauga County. ~ Mary Jane Carlson
You are freezing right now! ~ Mary Thompson Slone
Friday night fish fry. ~ Meg Collier Reddington
You can tell real maple syrup by the color. ~ Michael Holland
8″ of snow is a dusting. ~ Mike Martini
You wear your flip flops to school and have to have your mom being up snow boots at lunch!!! ~ Nazara Jambor West
Your mayor is also the town handyman!! <- true story. ~ Nazara Jambor West
If you love our pancake breakfasts and fans of the Great Geauga County Fair. ~ Norma Sue Burchett Adkins
You don’t know what it’s like to see grass between October and April. ~ Pamela Stricker
You pass a BMW only to brake for an Amish buggy. ~ Pamela Stricker
All of your vehicles have 4-wheel drive! ~ Pamela Wright Burton
If you experienced a Snow Storm on the first day of Spring. ~ Patricia Brady Whitehead
You are still shoveling snow and it’s July. ~ Patty Fitzmaurice
You wear mud boots because you need them not as a fashion statement. ~ Renee Shimko Smiciklas
You wake up to snow and have to roll your windows down on the way home from work. ~ Ric Weirick
Events elsewhere are cancelled due to 4-6 inches of snow, and you wonder what the big deal is. ~ Rich McCullough
You don’t order pancakes at a restaurant because they don’t have maple syrup. ~ Rich McCullough
First McDonalds with a drive-thru for/ used by buggies. ~ Rita Miller-Lang
You have hay in the cuffs of your jeans. ~ Ronald Kruty
You skip school that first very nice day to go to the beach at Lake Erie. ~Sam Klepac
You live in an awesome place! ~ Sandy Angstrom Pavick
You’ve driven through horse poop on the road. . . A lot. ~ Sara Koch Haueter
Complain about snow in March…..for decades on end. ~ Shauna Rich
Your class field trip was to Century Village. ~ Shelley Brown
You ask for real maple syrup everywhere you that’s NOT in Geauga County. ~ Shelly Holland
You love Sundays in March because of buckwheat pancakes, the Burton VFD, maple syrup and the fair is less than six months away. ~ Steve Takacs
You go up town. ~ Susan Lintala
You see tons of 4X4 trucks with stacks! Way too much ugly camo clothes. ~ Susan Spinelli Bucci
You’re used to REAL Maple Syrup at your pancake breakfasts! ~ Susan Wills
…when you find your neighbor’s cow lose on the road & folks are trying to corral it and bring it back home! (Another true story.) ~ Sylvia Krasovec Cestnik
You know the dates of the Burton antique show a year in Advance. ~ Terese Mascia
You have maple syrup running thru your veins…. ~ Theresa Brazauskas Miller
You can tell what month of the year it is blindfolded by the smell of the horse manure!…. ~ Thomas Adams
If you ever been out looking for the melonheads…… ~ Tim Powers
You keep saying can you hear me now while walking around the house hoping for a good cell signal! ~ Tony Vavpetic
You appreciate spring more than anyone on earth!!! ~ Tracy Hess Reid
If Middlefield makes swiss cheese. ~ Valerie Douse
You’re all ready for the MAPLE FESTIVAL!!!!!!! ( but wondering how cold its a gonna be this year…) ~ Vandella Xavier
And you know the term “buggy exhaust”. ~ William Norman
You have snow on the first day of spring? ~ William Norman
You’ve yelled while driving ” come on people it’s just a little freaking snow! ~“William Rivera
You understand the term “road apples”. ~Yvonne Deliere White

There are pancakes everywhere! People wave and say “hi” even when you don’t know who they are!! ~ Amanda McGowan

The Middlefield Cheese Factory did when I was growing up, that’s why there was the Swiss Cheese Festival over Father’s Day weekend. ~ Annette Gibbs-holmes

You can handle all the snow, looking forward to the maple products and the Middlefield swiss cheese. ~ Annette Gibbs-holmes

You have frostbite all over your body from late October until sometime in April. ~ Arlo Jemison

You see the Beauty all around in the faces of the children. ~ Barbara Jane Price-Stephens

Know how to use your air conditioner and furnace in the same day. ~ Beth Brown

Every one enters your house through the garage! ~ Betty Foye Mileti

You move out of town but keep one button on your radio set at 1100am so you can catch the Indians after dark. ~ Bill Byler

If the snow is deeper and the maple syrup is sweeeet! ~ Brad Pestyk

Your family can’t wait for The Great Geauga County Fair!! ~ Brenda McGee

You’ve eaten Swiss Cheese on a stick. Can name 6 different Draft horse breeds. ~ Carol Hill Griggs

You can’t wait for the pancake breakfasts in March! ~ Christina Sprague

You bleed maple syrup. ~ Cindy Easthom

You experience all 4 seasons in the same day. ~ Cindy Linn

And you grew up reading the Geauga Times Leader. ~ Cindy Venable

You’ve ever boiled hotdogs in maple syrup at a sugar bush. ~ Cindy Venable

You miss the humid summer nights. ~ CJ Szuter

If You Know about Snow and Look Forward to Spring Flowers. ~ Coupon Ken

Most of the traffic on your road is Amish buggies, and hay wagons pulled by Belgians! ~ Cynthia L Stutzman

You move to Lake County for 25 years and consider it PURGATORY until you can get back home where you belong! ~ Dale Hall

You know what the heck CORN HOLE is. ~ Dana Davey

You have two seasons- gun season and bow season. ~ Dave Peterson

If you own snowshoes! ~ David Johnson

You know a Herfeord from a Guernsey. ~ Deb White Bartsche

You know that melon heads are from Lake County. ~ Deb White Bartsche

You are a REAL maple syrup snob! ~ Debbie Brooks

If you have muddy boots and a rusty pickup truck with stacks with a rebel flag sticker on the back window. ~ Don Kepich

When you move to another state and still try to keep up with everything. ~ Erma Marsh

You have maple syrup in your veins. ~ Fran Tretera

It’s March 21 and you’re getting 15 inches of snow. ~ Geri Miller Grimes

If you just have to have a maple stir. ~ Glee Morse Slivka

Lake effect snow warnings ALWAYS apply to you. ~ Glenn Petranek

Your neighbor is that house a mile up the road. ~ Heidi Bacon

When a citizen thanks you and you respond ” You bet”. ~ Jamie Romph

You are on the lookout for buggies at all times while driving. ~ Jane Rua

You’ve ever eaten ham, ham, ham at the firehouse. ~ Jason Maynard

You know what “Ham,Ham ,Ham” means. ~ Jeff Keller

You remember removing your studded snow tires in May! ~ Jeffrey Brinkerhoff

Maple sugar and apple butter festivals! ~ Jennifer Sinden Alcorn

Sweaters are the norm on Memorial day! ~ Jennifer Sinden Alcorn

Maple flows through your veins. ~ Jer Emch

You know road apples aren’t edible fruit. ~ Jeremy Wohlken

You know you’re from Geauga County if the justice system displays weakness by giving a murderous delinquent a stage to spew vile at his innocent victims. ~ Jerome Blaha

It’s snowing. ~ John Svoboda

It snows on the first day of spring. ~ Joni Wilson-Crawford

Your carhart is your varsity jacket. ~ Joseph Brendy

Watching a horse poop in front of a buggy is a monthly event. ~ Karen Lynagh

If you expect snow during May! and realize that March 20 is just another day and has no relevance to weather. ~ Karen Munro

You’re up to your eyebrows in snow! ~ Kay Martini

You don’t know what to wear because the weather changes ever 10 minutes. ~ Kelly J. Hawley

You know what a Maple Stir is… ~ Laura Diemer

You live for maple stirs! ~ Laurie Getchell Thompson

If you haven’t put your boots away or taken your driveway markers out! ~ Linda Ebbert Mitchell

When you call the Geauga County Fair…THE GREAT GEAUGA COUNTY FAIR. LOL!!! ~ Linda J. Sabovik

If you like maple syrup, horses, and festivals!!!! ~ Linda Louski

If you love Chardon!!!! ~ Linda Martin

You know what time all the state parks close and which parks allow camp fires. And how to avoid being caught when in violation of the above. ~ Linda White

Butternut and Sherman roads are your favorite roller coasters. ~ Lindsey Davis

You fly to Chardon mainly to go to the Maple Festival!!! We froze our butts off too by the way!!! My blood has thinned out considerably!!! Lol ~ Liz Carrell Carroll

You have Richards Maple Syrup shipped to you in Texas because you can’t stand any other kind and your 24 year old daughter will only use Richards on her waffles since that’s what she was raised on!!! ~ Liz Carrell Carroll

Your blood is so thick you are still wearing shorts in the winter. Or your fat like me lol. ~ Loren Ludlow

You know you are from the healthest county in Ohio. ~ Mark Basinger

You keep a snow brush in your car year round. ~ Marsha Boyce Cable

You love the festivals for maple syrup, apples and for the beauty of Geauga County. ~ Mary Jane Carlson

You are freezing right now! ~ Mary Thompson Slone

Friday night fish fry. ~ Meg Collier Reddington

You can tell real maple syrup by the color. ~ Michael Holland

8″ of snow is a dusting. ~ Mike Martini

You wear your flip flops to school and have to have your mom being up snow boots at lunch!!! ~ Nazara Jambor West

Your mayor is also the town handyman!! <- true story. ~ Nazara Jambor West

If you love our pancake breakfasts and fans of the Great Geauga County Fair. ~ Norma Sue Burchett Adkins

You don’t know what it’s like to see grass between October and April. ~ Pamela Stricker

You pass a BMW only to brake for an Amish buggy. ~ Pamela Stricker

All of your vehicles have 4-wheel drive! ~ Pamela Wright Burton

If you experienced a Snow Storm on the first day of Spring. ~ Patricia Brady Whitehead

You are still shoveling snow and it’s July. ~ Patty Fitzmaurice

You wear mud boots because you need them not as a fashion statement. ~ Renee Shimko Smiciklas

You wake up to snow and have to roll your windows down on the way home from work. ~ Ric Weirick

Events elsewhere are cancelled due to 4-6 inches of snow, and you wonder what the big deal is. ~ Rich McCullough

You don’t order pancakes at a restaurant because they don’t have maple syrup. ~ Rich McCullough