Front page article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune today: Stearns County has plans for a scratch-and-sniff brochure warning of rural realities. (Stearns County would be just one county north of The Outpost.)
You read that right. They're printing a brochure with a "Scratch-N-Sniff Cowpie." Apparently the county sheriff is getting tired of city folks moving out into the rural areas so they can mow five acres of lawn and then complaining about the smells and sounds from the farm just down the road.
Well guess what yuppie...that's what you get out here. Furthermore, city utilities don't often stretch out to our neck of the woods, so don't look aghast when you're building your quarter-to-half-million dollar home and find out you have to dig a well and put in a septic system. The county or township might also laugh in your face with no attempt to control the spittle when you demand that they pave your gravel road.
The brochure apparently advises:
If you have a concern about noise, odors, manure application or other issues, visit with your farmer neighbor first.Yeah, so they can stare at you with disbelief and then run over your Miata convertible (handles superbly on gravel roads) with their combines.
I can't wait to see sniff this brochure. An odorless version should be available online at the end of January at http://www.co.stearns.mn.us