one thing that always pithes me off, people build houses next to farmland,
then complain about the manure smell

I'm with you on that....we are still zoned ag but the subbies have moved
ouyt...when the big influx came about 8 years ago, we started getting booby
trapped bridle paths and the city bicycle clubs started an anti-horse
campaign...since a horse is a legal mode of road transportation in MI they
didn't get anywhere, but that didn't stop them from terrorism...one reason
why I sold off my horses...got to be that every time you went someone was
harassing you or trying to spook your horse on purpose....I actually had a
bicyclist accost me in my own driveway because my horse had made a dump....I
asked him where he lived and he said in Grand Rapids...I informed him that I
paid taxes on my property, he didn't, and that he could go ride down the
city streets and become a drive-by shooting for all I cared...

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