The Farm

Lauren's last couple of blog posts have been about the Farm, and what, (or rather, who), brought her to the Farm, and her feelings about the Farm today.

I have never been to the Farm, but I know that my best friend's son enjoyed the Farm a lot with his grandfather when he was little, and my other best friend's daughter's day care visited the Farm once...I remember taking car seats over to the day care.

Anyway, for all of you city folks who have never traveled south of the Minnesota River, when you arrive in Dodge, you are seriously in a country abyss.  There are cornfields, soybean fields, running rabid dogs, two lane highways, an old memorial dedicated to a plowing contest http://www.historicmarkers.com/mn/84210-Plowville/, and wait for it...the Farm is located on a gravel road.  So leave that fancy BMW at home!

The local paper also regularly runs a gossip column dedicated to the goings on about town, stuff like, "Mary went and played Whist with Luverne on Sunday afternoon," "the Congregational church held its annual cookie sale which generated enough money to allow them to now install a new lightpost outside the front door," and "Meals-on-Wheels are getting complaints about excess oleo usage in their baked goods." This same paper also prints the weekly 911 calls and court reports, which are always ripe with little gems like, "a woman called and reported three eggs missing from her refrigerator" and "a man reported someone stole his cat for an hour but it has now returned." 

Also, just recently someone was critically injured when their car collided with a cow.  http://www.postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1441283  Now, granted, this didn't happen in Dodge County, but the point is, it happened and was in the local paper, and it definitely could have happened near the Farm.

Additionally, Dodge Center was the epicenter of a good ol' cow rustling incident a couple of years back.  What?  You didn't know the word "rustling" was still part of the English lexicon?